TERRA INCOGNITA

Enrico Masi
I – F, 2024, col., 93’
English – French – German – Italian o.v

In the Italian Alps, a family of German origin lives without electricity apart from society. On the other side of the Alpine border, in France, an immense plant is being built to research atomic fusion. Terra Incognita is a dialogue between opposing development models and premiered at the latest Festival dei Popoli in Florence.

Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Enrico Masi, Stefano Migliore Fotografia / Photography: Stefano Croci, Enrico Masi con / with Tomas Rigoni Montaggio / Editing: Benni Atria, Carlotta Guaraldo Musica / Music: Fabrizio Puglisi Suono / Sound: Jacopo Bonora, Alexandre Frigoult Rabehasaina Interpreti / Cast: Gerd Keyenburg, Annegret Keyenburg, Laban Coblentz, Irene Zammuto, Solange Produzione / Produced by: Caucaso, Les Alchimistes Coproduzione / Co-produced by: Rai Cinema Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Emilia Romagna Film Commission, Région Sud, MIC – Ministero della Cultura, CNC, Arte – La Lucarne, Procirep Angoa, Bip TV Distribuzione internazionale / World Sales: Filmotor

Two utopian experiences unfold in parallel. In the Italian Alps, a family of German origin lives without electricity apart from society. On the other side of the Alpine border, in France, an immense plant is being built to research atomic fusion. Terra Incognita is a dialogue between opposing development models, reflecting on the human condition and its relationship to material resources.

“This environmental film deals with human ambition, between American Mennonite culture and European scientific culture, in a fallout shelter that is no longer in the now-abandoned underground tunnels, but high up in the Alps, close to the glaciers that sing of their melting, to the Solange star observatory. The gaze points even higher, towards those stars that the huge ITER factory wants to emulate by bringing fusion to earth.” (E. Masi)

Enrico Masi
Film director Enrico Masi was born in 1983, in Valsamoggia, Italy. With a degree in Modern Literature and Cinema and a doctorate in Pedagogy, Enrico has developed a focus on the cultural issues of post-modernity and the social impact of 20th century and third millennium phenomena. In 2004 Enrico founded Caucaso, an art collective and cooperative production company. Terra Incognita premiered at the latest Festival dei Popoli in Florence.

filmografia scelta / selected filmography
2012 The Golden Temple 2016 Lepanto – Ultimo cangaceiro 2019 Shelter – Farewell to Eden 2024 Terra Incognita

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