Frammenti di una Festa Furiosa

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Frammenti di una Festa Furiosa

original title:

Frammenti di una Festa Furiosa

directed by:

cinematography:

production:

country:

Italy

year:

2021

film run:

8'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (08/02/2021)

genre:

animation film

festivals & awards:

  • Open House – Concreto 2021: Special Screening
  • Castello d’Albertis – Code War 2021: Special Screening

Furio’s Furious Fragments & Friends - Furio Jesi (1941 Turin -1980 Genoa), enfant prodige moving between a plethora of disciplines – egyptology, history of religions, German philology, literary criticism - passed away prematurely, not without leaving bright fragments which throw light on mechanisms beneath many socio-cultural practices, for instance regarding cultural belonging, the functions of myth in modern society. He saw kind of “mythological machines” at work underneath our cultural production of meanings, historically determined, departing from a void, something that is still in culture but as residue, a missing link to an alleged authentic experience nowadays compromised up to the point to became just rhetoric, a byword, which is in no way neutral, but a tool, a machina, for maintaining the status quo and serving the power apparatus. As in the case of holidays, celebrations and festivals.