LE CHIAVI DI CASA

The video is an experiment where people of different nationalities build “a house” with waste materials trying to communicate with each other using their own experience.
A cultural attempt in which the comparison between different cultures, especially if very distant from each other, can provide information on human perceptual worlds analyzed in different models of thought and life.
The sequences of the video, with a narrative character, describe the efforts of the protagonists by comparing, through gestures and actions, their territoriality. So, like a “Tower of Babel”, people’s looks, gestures and stories are confused.

 This video is not about building a house for its ownership, it’s rather about the concept of “belonging to (being part of) a space”. The goal is not the building itself; it’s the concept of human involvement and interaction.

 Winner of the Italy-Bosnia “Osservatorio sui Balcani” price (2nd place);
Il Caos, incerto e necessario, isola di San Servolo, side event 53^ Biennale, Venice. 2007

Le Chiavi di Casa
2007
Video-b/w, two versions.

 Performer: Alexandra, Laye, Carlos, Abdul.
Video: Francesco Pelliccioli, Umberto Ottaviani