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(Panarea, Italy)
Duration: 30 minutes
Year of Production: 2005
Distribution: RAIEDUCATIONAL
Format: Dvcam
Directors: Michela Morano and Andrea Patierno
Director of Photography: Mauro Marchetti
Editing: Gaia Borretti
Panarea, with its sophisticated pubs, discos and the hundreds of moored yachts, is par excellence the VIP island of the Aeolians, a chic island, a tribute to luxury and elegance.
But what is it that distinguishes Panarea as a “frivolous” island devoted to the worldly life, from the other islands of the archipelago? How was the “myth” of Panarea born? What were the social transformations that marked it? The documentary intends to reveal the identity of a community, that of Panarea, fiercely hidden by the rhythms and by the typologies of tourist affluence, in order to understand, through some key testimonies, how the island has been transformed in the last decades. Where and how everything began. What has been lost and what was left behind: from the discovery of the island by the first tourists, guests in the humble homes of fishermen, to the appearance of the first disco, from the installation of electric lighting in the first years of the 1980's, to the boats(that flood the small port of Panarea by the hundreds each summer. Gaetano Tesoriero, immigrated to Australia in the 1960's, was one of the last islanders to leave. The documentary will recount the spirit of his voyage, the adventure, together with the melancholy and the hope of those who embarked from Sicily on unknown routes to find those who had gone before them in the ports of Sidney or New York. The documentary will describe the community of Aeolians in Australia, their connections with island still alive and visceral. From Verona De Monte comes another story of emigration. It is the story of someone who left, but who has struggled her entire life to be able to return, bewitched by the memories that the island indelibly impressed. These two stories reconstruct the original flavor, the taste for simplicity, that the island had before the tourist boom. The voices of those who left, those who returned, discovering each time a different island in evolution, intersect other stories, those of who, in the same years and more or less responsibly, decided to move to Panarea to experience the charm of the semi-abandoned wild island, in search of a small uncontaminated paradise from which to draw inspiration. This is the story of Miriam Beltrami, founder of the RAYA hotel, of Giulio Contarini, and of all the painters, artists, architects, and illustrious directors of the most important art galleries in Europe that began arriving on this strip of land, seduced by the bohemian spirit that the island emits.
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