Projection docufilm “A dream of WATER and FIRE” by Marco Bruciati
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Projection docufilm “A dream of WATER and FIRE” by Marco Bruciati

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In 2025 Effetto Venezia turns forty. To celebrate the anniversary, Fondazione LEM and the Municipality of Livorno have decided to entrust Marco Bruciati – director and artistic director of the event in 2023 – with the realization of a documentary film that would retrace the history of the main summer event in Livorno. This is how “A dream of water and fire” was born, the first part of a larger story dedicated to the history of the event inaugurated in Livorno in 1985.

The proposed journey, through the evolution of the “Effetto Venezia phenomenon,” thanks to audiovisual documentation, returns the memory of the territory, to understand the changes in the social, cultural, urbanistic, and economic dynamics of the city over these four decades.

The first step of the narration focused on the period from 1985 to the early 2000s, reconstructing the genesis, growth, and turning point in 1996 with the show of the Els Comedians Company, also focusing on the urban dynamics that in 1975 allowed the safeguarding of the historic district. The narrative choice, in this specific segment, benefited from the direct testimony of people who experienced the history of Effetto Venezia from the inside: former municipal employees, women and men from the neighborhood, technicians, cultural operators, and some institutional figures. Their voices were joined by archive images found at the tourism office of the Municipality of Livorno and some private archives (Coop and Franco Bocci). The images, in VHS format typical of the 90s, were digitized and archived by the association 8mmezzo.

In the second part, dedicated to the 2000s, “A dream of water and fire” will mainly focus on the cultural and commercial operators with particular reference to the artistic directions that have succeeded over the years.

Participants: Mauro Zucchelli, Antonio Picchianti, Lorena Marconi, Paolo Morelli, Paolo Demi, Carla Zamboni, Maria Grazia Lodde, Gianfranco Conti, Claudio Filippelli, Massimo Tamalio, Stefania Politi, Chico De Maio, Luca Fiordi, Monica Ria, Maurizio Paolini, Emiliano Fanelli, Luca Salvetti.

Directed by Marco Bruciati. Camera operators: Luca Bardi, Federico Anglano, Lorenzo Pari, Jacopo Torriti, Matilde Balzano. Sound engineer: Veronica Demelas. Editing: Marco Bruciati. Post-Production: Luca Bardi. Interviews from the 90s: Franco Bocci. Contemporary interviews: Phrones.

Projection docufilm “A dream of WATER and FIRE” by Marco Bruciati
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