Gente d'Alpe

(Mountain Chronicle)
by Sandro Nardi, Giovanna Poldi Allai, Filippo Lilloni
42’, Italy, 2010

Poets, shepherds, ex-shepherds, mule-drivers, and breeders recount the Alps as a natural bastion, a site to be defended, like one’s own home and roots. Th e mountain people’s choices, words, and gestures remind us that men are born free and complete, that natural laws favour life on earth, that animals are indispensable for Man, and that political-economic ideologies and powers pass, while the Alps, although they change, remain.

Sandro Nardi, Giovanna Poldi, Allai, Filippo Lilloni
Sandro Nardi (1972) has been interested in fi lm since his youth and in 2005 began making documentaries, of anthropological subjects. Giovanna Poldi Allai (1966), after studying at the DAMS in Bologna
and working as a lighting technician in Berlin, has devoted her energy to documentaries and collaborates with the association, Le Giraffe, in Parma. Filippo Lilloni (1971), studied literature in Bahia and cinematography in Los Angeles before dedicating himself to documentaries.