Berchidda live - a journey through the Time in Jazz archive collects and elaborates more than 1,500 hours of archive material shot over 25 years by Gianfranco Cabiddu and his troupe in the various editions of Time in Jazz, a music festival created and directed by Paolo Fresu in his hometown of Berchidda, Sardinia. Mellara, Rossi and Cabiddu mixed these largely unpublished film materials to compose a concert film spanning almost forty years, an interweaving of music and places, emotions and memories. A unique cinematic and musical experience, a precious legacy.
The film, following an emotional path that mixes memory and contemporaneity, moves along parallel lines of assonances and attractions, travelling between past, present and future, elaborating the visual and musical synthesis of a multiform history that is still evolving. The intention is to make the images of Sardinia resonate, the faces of the musicians, the details of the instruments, the crowds of spectators, the wild dances and ecstatic listening, the remote places and the large central stage, to compose a jazz fresco that immerses the spectators in the festival, making them experience things they have not experienced or in which they have participated but which they want to rediscover and relive.