IL LAVORO CIECO
by GIANLUCA ABBATE
Written by Lello Voce / Music Paolo Fresu, Adele Pardi, Dario Comuzzi, Frank Nemola
Italy 2020 / 16’
V.O.
“Working less, working all”.
This is the idea from which Gianluca Abbate and Lello Voce developed their concept. It was a signature slogan during the
political unrest in Italy in 1977 and it is still relevant in a world where human labour and technological progress are trying to
coexist with mixed results. So, the poem Il lavoro cieco, written and played by Lello Voce and published in Il fiore inverso, takes life in the latest work by Abbate. Through images and sequences created by combining collage and digital animation techniques,
the director manages to express the wish for emancipation and freedom of contemporary workers as human beings.
DIRECTOR
Gianluca Abbateis a director of experimental films. In 2016 he was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for best animation film and in 2015 he won the prize for best short-film at the 32nd Torino Film Festival.
His films have been screened at various festivals and museums such as the Ann Arbor and Chicago Underground Film Festival, at the MAXXI and MACRO museums in Rome,
at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Hiroshima, in Moscow and Istanbul, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul.
© Gianluca Abbate