25/09/2016

Audioghost68, the movie


 If you follow this blog, you know how much I've loved this creation... I wrote about it in French and I mentioned it in my long article on Il Grande Cretto to be published in the coming issue of the Public Art Review (in the US).

This incredible event also brought me to Sicily, which was as powerful in my life as discovering Mexico in 2012. A feeling of complete belonging...

A film has been made out of the shooting of the performance by Giuseppe Lanno and Giancarlo Neriand is to be shown at the Naples' Arte Cinema Festival early October.

Here are the details:



AUDIOGHOST68

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  • Teatro San Carlo

Giuseppe Lanno, Giancarlo Neri
Italy / 2015 / 9'


Nel gennaio del 1968 Gibellina fu quasi completamente rasa al suolo da un violento terremoto. Alcuni 
anni dopo la città venne ricostruita a pochi chilometri di distanza e il sindaco, Ludovico Corrao, volle 
coinvolgere nella ricostruzione architetti, urbanisti e artisti di fama internazionale. Alberto Burri non 
volle intervenire nella “nuova” Gibellina ma propose una gigantesca opera che avrebbe completamente 
coperto le macerie: il Grande Cretto. L’opera fu realizzata tra il 1984 e il 1989 e ultimata nel 2015 in 
occasione del centenario della sua nascita. AUDIOGHOST68 è un evento per luci, suoni e mille attori, appositamente concepito per il Grande Cretto dal musicista Robert Del Naja e dall'artista Giancarlo Neri: 
mille lucciole bianche si muovono e danzano nella notte tra le “vene” del Cretto, mentre nell’aria si 
sentono i suoni e le voci di quel 1968 che segnò la fine di Gibellina.

In January of 1968, Gibellina was nearly destroyed by a violent earthquake. A few years later, the city 
was rebuilt a few kilometers away and for the reconstruction, the mayor, Ludovico Corrao, wanted the 
involvement of internationally renowned architects, town planners and artists. Alberto Burri was 
unwilling to work on the “new” Gibellina but proposed an enormous work which would have completely 
covered the ruins: the Grande Cretto. The work was conducted between 1984 and 1989 and completed
in 2015 to mark the centennial of Burri’s birth.  Audioghost68 is an event for lights, sound and a thousand 
actors and was especially created for the Grande Cretto by the musician Robert Del Naja and the artist 
Giancarlo Neri: one thousand white fireflies move and dance in the night in the “veins” of the Cretto 
while the air is filled with sounds and voices from that distant 1968 which marked the end of Gibellina. 

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Watch the trailer:



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