Rondò final

A slow, hypnotic collage of archival fragments that feels like a dreamy meditation on ritual and memory.

Directed by

Felice D'Agostino, Gaetano Crivaro

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Pierluisa Castiglione, Sacko Souleiman

Overview

A hundred years of images researched and found, Fragments of film, family reels, pixels. A martyr saint, a warrior. Saint Efisio, an icon who moves the people. A holiday, a rite which repeats outside of time and brings with it the masks of dominations past and present, of an island; Sardinia. What escapes? What remains? Question and answer is the foundation of editing And renews the past in another past. In this encounter of deferred glances, the holy day is renewed again in memory and in dream, far from known places.

How it feels

Melancholic, eerie, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, faith, identity, power

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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