Animalia

by Ugo Slomp
35’, Betacam SP, Italy, 1995/2007

This portrait of Albino Brisighella, called “El Mastai”, grew out of a research project, begun in 1993, on the most recent ways of mountain life in the Val Daone, in Italy’s Trentino region. His only worry is survival and how to pacify his cruel and incessant hunger. Killing animals for food becomes a primitive, ancestral ritual that leads Man – himself an animal – to reflect on his existence.

Ugo Slomp
On the staff of RAI since 1977, in addition to his work as director and programmer he holds a diploma in oboe and is a specialist in Baroque music and aesthetics. The author of multimedia and journalistic projects, he has realized more than one hundred short videos that explore  experimental sound-image relationships.