original title:
Queste cose non avvennero mai ma sono sempre
directed by:
cast:
Maria Martinese, Gaspare Sammartano, Sandro Quaranta
producer:
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2025
film run:
65'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (29/09/2025)
Taranto, southern Italy, 20XX AD. A sound artist records echoes and radio interference among bunkers and wrecked buildings. An elderly blind man lives in a utopian commune, tending a vegetable garden and quoting Dostoevsky. A restless woman roams the woods with a black pitbull, enacts rituals, sketches hauntings, and dreams of explosions. These things never happened but have always been: an exploration of industrial ruins and invisible worlds around Europe’s largest steel plant, tracing a suspended human landscape between disaster and beauty.