Flavio Bonetti

What which we see on a map, especially on antique maps, is not the earth, but the profile of our social and religious organizations, the profile of our fears.

The place is un the Balkans, which in the Europe of the 20th century represents the failure of the instruments of comprehension and geographic control. For the traveler with a weak sense of orientation the metaphor of geographic imprecision comes easily.

actors: Emil Aleksandrov Aleksiev, Svilen Blagoev Losev, Jan the preacher

narrators: Flavio Bonetti and Svilen Blagoev Losev

singers: 'Les mystere des voix Bulgares' and 'Nuraghe Majore'

musicians: Peter Bonev bagpipe and Nicola Parov (opening piece)

Documentary of a journey in a country that's loosing faith in geography: one of the never ending arguments regarding the nature of the ocean, someone still sees it as a river at land's end.

Balancing this loss is a certain nostalgia, which most often comes from the memory of the odors and the songs of the aunts.

or:

Geography is the limit of the ability to understand, it's the difficulty of organizing in a form (cartography in particular) the complications of reality. That which we see on a map, especially on antique maps, is not the earth, but the profile of our social and religious organizations, the profile of our fears.

In this work, the subject is the Balkans, which in the Europe of the 20th century represents the failure of the instruments of comprehension and geographic control. For the traveler with a weak sense of orientation the metaphor of geographic imprecision comes easily, and the paradoxical representation of this documentary becomes it's most suited form.

artistic and technical cast

actors: Emil Aleksandrov Aleksiev, Svilen Blagoev Losev, Jan the preacher

narrators: Flavio Bonetti and Svilen Blagoev Losev

singers: 'Les mystere des voix Bulgares' and 'Nuraghe Majore'

musicians: Peter Bonev on the zampogna and Nicola Parov (opening piece)

shooting and editing Flavio Bonetti, avid operator Antonella Macchioni

sound Matteo Pelliciari and Massimo Pellegrini

produced by Katia Anguelova

filmography

This is the second short film of Flavio Bonetti, the first was entitled 'normal' and won in 1996 the preview of independent film of Bellaria.

list of dialogues:

now we will see the most popular

geographic map ever designed

look

i don't want to talk about the cardinal points

everyone has his own opinion

but the ocean

the ocean a river!?

a country where no-one speaks his language

a country where everyone stays home to sing

and if they don't sing they talk about music

and if they don't talk about music

they talk about geography

and if they don't talk about geography

they don't understand each other

the smell of oranges the smell of oranges

ahh lemons lemons the smell of lemons

in the history of this country we were all

singers

navigators

and even though the river was just one

the geographic maps were not precise

ahh the smell of coffee the smell of coffee

we still lived in italy

and the aunts and in the memory are all the same age

and everyone know how to sing

and everyone knew how to make a wonderful cake

ahh the smell of the aunts

ancient mountain

the leaves that fall

lie one on top of the other

the rain beats on the rain

ancient mountain

in the history of this country all are

singers

poets

navigators

navigators even if we don't have but one river

but even with just one river

the geographic maps are not precise

look

on the map this country is surrounded by a river

it's true, it's full of beautiful mountains picturesque valleys

snow-covered peaks designed on the map

but hear not even one bridge is marked

no bridge!

not a bridge

and so where do all the foreign cars come from

the contraband cigarettes

the trains

the circus trucks

the frozen foods

it's incredible absolutely incredible

almost no-one believes anymore in geography...

he hasn't been asked anything

i would like my little girls to be happy

i have a big girl she's twenty years old

i'd like her to work to earn a bit of money

i live in timisoara me yes

now i'm with the cows but

but every night i go back and i bring the milk to the little girls///

i am mathematics professor in timisoara in the n°1 school

the money isn't enough

for this i am here in the holy ground watching them///

here there's no work and yet work

now comes i don't know how

from italy from france from germany

ugly things and the children go directly

to see discotheques porno films

that they mustn't see

and can't see......

they don't admire eternity

but the admiration for eternity is not popular in the city

even if the winters are all the same

it always snows on the same days

at the same hour

the houses

the clothes

the cars

the sausages

are all the same

and we could continue and continue but...

but the passion for song isn't reasonable

a country where everyone stays home to sing

and if they don't sing they talk about music

and if they don't talk about music

they talk about geography

and if they talk about geography

they don't understand each other

no-one out in the street there's no-one

it's useless to talk about maps

this song is in falsetto

liliana, a girl to be married, liliana

get up early before dawn

get up early before dawn

and go out to sweep the courtyard

and this is the open song

on the steppe of your body i cry almonds and red wine

but hard are your lips to my prodigies

remove therefore your skies of snow from my spirit

today you won't see the maps of the country

because unfortunately there are too many clouds

the evening will be cloudy

too many clouds

that's why the maps are not precise

see..

the maps are not precise

the maps are not precise

precise the map precise the maps

it's true?

cloud the cloud the clouds

the rain the rains

they are they will be they were imprecise

the imperfect of the verb understand is

i understood

you understood

he she understood

we understood

you understood

they understood

i have understood

you have understood

he she has understood

we have understood

you have understood

they have understood

i had understood

you had understood

he she had understood

we had understood

you had understood

they had understood

grammar is fundamental for geography

and the catalogs of those that we know of accompany us

i would understand

you would understand

he she would understand

we would understand

you would understand

they would understand

i will understand

you will understand

he she will understand

we will understand

you will understand

they will understand

understanding

understood

understood

is it O.K?

present perfect past perfect imperfect future perfect

simple past past indefinite

pluperfect

and if you want i can tell all the tenses for the verb to be:

i am

you are

he she is

we are

you are

they are

present perfect

i have been

you have been

he has been

we have been

you have been

they have been

imperfect

i was

you were

he she was

we were

you were

they were

past perfect

i had been

you had been

he had been

we had been

you had been

they had been

and this what was it?

i was

you were

he was

what tense is this?

I think that it's right

to make a chart of the conjugations of the verb to make

i make

you make

he she makes

we make

you make

they make

i made

you made

he she made

we made

you made

they made

i have made

you have made

he she has made

we have made

you have made

they have made

black

blacker

the blackest

beautiful

more beautiful

the most beautiful

happy

happier

the happiest

happy beautiful lucky without problems

ciao children italian children be happy

it thundered

there was lightning

sky

good day

good evening

good night

see you later

regards

what to do what to say

be happy

be gracious

be lucky

be better

be kind

be loving

be good

a trip around the world a friend gave me

geography grade 5

music grade 6

there

the voice of the professor thundered from the chair

what have you got in your heads

i'll tell you what you've got in your heads

empty heads empty wind

the wind

this is the symbol of weather at the building of the geographers

everything that has to do with wind in this country is beloved

the sails

the leaves

the airplanes

and the waves

everything that has to do with wind in this country is beloved

the windmills

the kites

the flags

and the waves

in this country all are singers poets

but above all everyone would like to be navigators

and notwithstanding the great passion

we aren't able to paint precise maps

that's it

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