Bosco Grande

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Salvatore Spatola, Sergione to his friends, is a legendary tattoo artist from Palermo, living in the Bosco Grande neighbourhood. At 50, suffering from severe obesity but surrounded by lifelong friends, he owns a photocopy shop. The visit of director Giuseppe Schillaci, back in Palermo from Paris, is the beginning of a journey that is both the one of the documentary, Bosco Grande, and the one towards a possible cure in a center in Cefalù. Through photos and songs, the punk Nineties come back to mind, while Sergione oscillates between attachment to life and self-destructive push. Schillaci, present and absent at the same time in Sergione’s life, addresses a flow of memories and thoughts that have little to do with an uncomfortable present. “Live fast, die young” is the punk motto that fatalistically weighs on Sergione’s life.

DIRECTORY

Writer, online editor and documentary film director, Giuseppe Schillaci from Palermo created his first important work in collaboration with Antoine D’Agata for The Cambodian Room, awarded in 2009 at the Turin Film Festival with the Special Jury Prize. He arrived in Toronto in 2011 with the documentary Cosmic Energy Inc., and he triumphed in London and at the SalinaDocFest in 2013 with Apolitics Now. The documentary Il Modernissimo di Bologna is selected in Turin and Marseille (PriMed) in 2022, and finally Bosco Grande is screened for the first time at Venice Nights, in Giornate degli Autori 2024 selection.


