Holy Water

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Holy Water (Acqua Benedetta)

Holy Water (Acqua Benedetta)

original title:

Acqua Benedetta

directed by:

cast:

Fabio Bomberini, Carlo Alberto Cecconi, Serena Scaramella

cinematography:

music:

Christine Ott

country:

Italy

year:

2023

film run:

86'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (31/10/2023)

«Not all places are habitable, not all bodies are livable. There is no good, there is no evil... there is only nature. Our planet is a perfect machine. Man cannot inhabit it. For his body, inadequate, that water is poison».
A man proceeds slowly towards the dialysis center. The sky becomes dark, the air soaked with water, the city weighs down, the bodies slow down and falter.
Whether it is the diet of a dialysis or the level of a water channel, the balance is uncertain and is based on water control.
Systematic dialysis, weight management, thorough diet. Plant monitoring, hydrometric analysis, communicating vessels.
Water pushes under the skin and stagnates on the earth, creeps into the tissues, saturates the air. Between drowning and drought, between kidneys and soils, veins and channels, between hydraulic mechanics and medicine. Man and Nature remain in balance.
But what does our balance rest on?