original title:
Acqua Benedetta
directed by:
cast:
Fabio Bomberini, Carlo Alberto Cecconi, Serena Scaramella
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
music:
Christine Ott
production:
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?