by Francesca Morra
Traveling across intensive cultivations, large companies, economic experts and ecologists champions of sustainability, entrepreneurs more or less sensitive to the issue and small barns of the province of Parma in crisis: this is the path that lies in front of those who take a seat on a chair and watche the documentary “Terramacchina”. This is the result of a research project that involved the network of Centri di Educazione Ambientale della Provincia of Parma, coordinated by CIREA (Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali – Università degli Studi di Parma) and in collaboration with Assessorato Ambiente of the Parma Province.
The 72-minutes movie runs faster jumping from a tangible world, made up of images and testimonials from the territory to a world without space and time where the main character is Febe, a girl who plays and paints, whose fantasies come to life through the magic of animations. Daniele di Domenico, the director, says “Terramacchina wants to spread a love and warning message for this land, but it also turns in a very concrete way to the production system, which can be seriously threatened by an impairment of natural resources at the basis of food production”.
As the title of the documentary says, the Earth has become “a machine to let operate in a reckless way” where intensive-growth crops are extended over the whole territory. We can no longer procrastinate and shift the consequences of our actions to future generations, represented by Febe in the movie, who is “he personified image of a new environmental consciousness, of a new culture of responsibility”. Responsibility that goes beyond the moral question of sustainability, extending until an economic point of view: sustainability gives benefits to everyone, not just to the environmentalists!
The first projections (Monday, October 10, 2011 - Cinema D'Azeglio of Parma, Thursday, September 22, 2011 - Cinema D'Azeglio of Parma) have sold out. This important public response led the organizers of the project to promote the projection of the documentary all over Italy. Anyone can organize a screening in his city: just go on the official website of the project in this section and request a free DVD.
The trailer ends with the finding that alone is enough to stimulate interest on the topics of the documentary: a backwards countdown of the new births every second in the world! It is indeed time to make room for new solutions existing in the agro technic area, in order to continue living on the Earth, who gives us so much but requires many cares.
The 72-minutes movie runs faster jumping from a tangible world, made up of images and testimonials from the territory to a world without space and time where the main character is Febe, a girl who plays and paints, whose fantasies come to life through the magic of animations. Daniele di Domenico, the director, says “Terramacchina wants to spread a love and warning message for this land, but it also turns in a very concrete way to the production system, which can be seriously threatened by an impairment of natural resources at the basis of food production”.
As the title of the documentary says, the Earth has become “a machine to let operate in a reckless way” where intensive-growth crops are extended over the whole territory. We can no longer procrastinate and shift the consequences of our actions to future generations, represented by Febe in the movie, who is “he personified image of a new environmental consciousness, of a new culture of responsibility”. Responsibility that goes beyond the moral question of sustainability, extending until an economic point of view: sustainability gives benefits to everyone, not just to the environmentalists!
The first projections (Monday, October 10, 2011 - Cinema D'Azeglio of Parma, Thursday, September 22, 2011 - Cinema D'Azeglio of Parma) have sold out. This important public response led the organizers of the project to promote the projection of the documentary all over Italy. Anyone can organize a screening in his city: just go on the official website of the project in this section and request a free DVD.
The trailer ends with the finding that alone is enough to stimulate interest on the topics of the documentary: a backwards countdown of the new births every second in the world! It is indeed time to make room for new solutions existing in the agro technic area, in order to continue living on the Earth, who gives us so much but requires many cares.
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