Feature-length, documentary essay by Frank Sanna
currently in post-production.
Inventing a cine-portrait with his father and son, a filmmaker of Sardinian origin looks for clues to the poetic and personal ground of being in the world.
I see poetics (like mythology) as any human gesture of tying things together. Especially when it comes as an intuitive response to the mystery of life. It’s an ability to see what is similar between dissimilar things and to make connections. To rhyme with words. Or, for example, to consider how a river and the wind are similar because they both flow, or both carry things. In our modern and rational society, I think we have forgotten this… that knowing begins with intuition, and that the world is ‘made up’ or built up from poetic forms of connection.
Acknowledging and exploring life’s mystery and ambiguity, just as Sardinian Poets do in their improvised chanted debates, is what “poetics” are all about. It’s what, in the first place, makes us human.
The way we connect to the world has changed.
This film is about resonating with the value of poetics and getting back in touch with its reality.
This project is being supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and by the Fondazione Pinuccio Sciola.
