L'accento di realtà (The Accent of Reality), 2009 video 4'10" a project by Matteo Fraterno and Cesare Pietroiusti, direction Giorgio de Finis, photography Beppe De Lucia, editing Paolo Mancino, suono Angelo Losasso, production Fondazione Morra, Ilmotorediricerca and Athens Biennale, in collaboration with In iride sfoggio.
A very popular, beautiful and romantic, Italian song from 1955, Luomo in frac (A Man with a Frack), the story of a man who walks alone in a citys night, and commits suicide at dawn. A place in Southern Italy that is the home town of Domenico Modugno (the singer) and of Pino Pascali, the artist who died in a motorcycle accident in Roma in 1968. The name of the small town, Polignano, is dedicated to Polimnia, the Muse of the many songs. A workshop with a group of young artists to analyze the text of the song, and propose some change, in order to tell a new story, that of an artist who is unable to finish his painting, and therefore commits suicide throwing himself into the water (either a river, or the sea). This might also be a symbolic suicide to the representation, and an attempt to fully enter, immerse oneself into the reality. Realtà, the Italian word for reality has an accent on its last letter. A video, built as a musical clip, tells the story of the suicidal artist. With an accent on reality, at the end.
