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(Stromboli, Italy)
Format: Dvcam
Directors: Claudio Conti, Andrea Patierno
Press Office: Michela Morano
Filmed in Stromboli, Jurgen under the Volcano, is the story of Jurgen Wegner, a German painter that had lived on the island for 30 years before his death at sea, in what were mysterious circumstances, in 1998.
In Stromboli, the beauty of the landscape is united with the fascination of having the only constantly active volcano in Europe. And perhaps also for this reason the inhabitants, like the foreigners who have established themselves here, constitute a very particular source of stories and exemplify models of living decidedly alternative to those of "city-dwellers".
The principle thread of the story is Jurgen's last day and his misfortune at sea, recalled in the memories of his friends and islanders.
In a choral narrative that is suggestive and rich with pathos, anxieties, impressions, the omens connected with the disappearance of the painter are united in reflections of life "under the volcano" and of what it means to seek a haven from modernity on a small island. In the film, in addition, for the first time, the vast and eclectic artistic productions of Jurgen are documented: from pictures/paintings on glass, wood and fabric; to jewelry; from sculpture - abstract and anthropomorphic -; to objects and accessories in the most varied and sought after forms and materials.
The personages interviewed, particularly communicative and never predictable, united with locations of incomparable beauty, make this work an original testimony of a unique world, light years away from the metropolitan frenzy (as the popular Sicilian saying goes).
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