Lessinia: un mondo suggestivo... e perduto!

(Lessinia: An Evocative and Lost World)
by Giorgio Pirana
15’, Digital Betacam, Italy, 2008

To fulfill an unspoken agreement with his paternal grandfather, who emigrated to America at the start of the last century, a young man visits the Lessinia area. When he reaches his grandfather’s homeland, however, he realizes that it is totally changed. The environment has been compromised by the invasive and destructive presence of man: houses, quarries, ski trails, and pylons. He feels disoriented, yet sees a ray of hope.

Giorgio Pirana
A member of C.A.I., of the Italian Group of Mountain Writers and of the Curatorium Cimbricum Veronense, since his youth he has loved and spent time in the mountains, immortalizing them in his photographs and films. He has participated in every edition of the Lessinia Film Festival since its inception.