God Save the Green

Five young men wait for something at the end of their teenage towards maturity.

Cars affect our primary senses on all levels, they define our world and change our contemporary society. Our tastes have changed: drive-in food, that was once at most a monthly family treat has now become an essential daily ritual in our fast-paced, consumer society. We barely notice the smell of exhaust fumes but more and more people are getting sick from atmospheric pollution. Our cities are now designed in function of cars, changing what we see and our perception of the world we live in. The film seeks to question the car myth, something that is deeply rooted in our consumer society. A group of primary school's kids guide the spectators in a journey into our imaginary. Using automotive archives and through the involvement in a dynamic way of scientists, engineers, anthropologist and racing drivers, the film explores how the car has changed not only the cities we live in but also our lives.

Collects and processes more than 1,500 hours of archive material filmed over 25 years by Gianfranco Cabiddu and his crew in the various editions of Time in Jazz, a music festival created and directed by Paolo Fresu in his home town of Berchidda, Sardinia.

From the Archiginnasio Library in Bologna, a cultural journey celebrating Paolo Fresu's 60th birthday. Accompanying him will be the Alborada String Quartet, pianist Dino Rubino, bandoneon player Daniele di Bonaventura, and double bassist Marco Bardoscia, who will bring the story to life with the assistance of Alessandro Bergonzoni's voice.

The film recounts the glorious half a century of an important festival not only in the history of the Italian theatre, but also cultural policy, public goods, instances of participation, management in the cultural sense of the public space.