Theatre
I custodi dei confini, film in Italian language
Synopsis “I CUSTODI DEI CONFINI™” - “DIE HÜTER DER GRENZEN”
Walking from the Carnic Ridge between Cadore Veneto and Austrian East Tyrol to the passes that divide Belluno area from South Tyrol in Sesto Dolomites, I questioned myself on the meaning of the term "borders". No longer “dividing lines”, but meeting and exchange points of ethnolinguistic, ethnosacral and ethnopolitical "alterities" defined by the tragic legacy of the anti-utopia of nationalisms. Languages, customs, religion, regional or state membership must actually be seen as peculiarities and wealth brought as a dowry by populations that live in contact. "Border" huts and their managers witness the change from being "guardians" to becoming "keepers" of an area of new European identities. Along the imaginary line that we follow on our path, we carefully restudy history before rethinking the concepts of “border” and “identity” to forget the anti-utopia offered by the concepts of nations and nationalism, there are numerous peculiar linguistic communities that allow us to re-evaluate the concept of language and dialect: from the Tilga of Obertilliach, a local dialect presumably deriving from movements of human groups from Silesia still to be studied in depth, to the Kartitsch variant of East Tyrol, to move to the Upper Pusterese, or the variant of Sesto of the South Tyrolean. So much for the local variants of Tyrolean, for some German dialect, for others a minority language with various facets. The same applies to the "dialects" spoken on the other side, namely the Comelean and the Ladin spoken in Comelico, both variants of the Ladin Dolomitan spoken in the Cadore area, as well as the Cadore spoken in Auronzo. All the "local languages" listed above are the heritage of Tyroleans, South Tyroleans, Comelicans (Comelians) and Cadores, whose state belonging to Austria and Italy is clear, while their cultural and linguistic identity is totally to be rethought starting from a shared fund of common history in which multilingualism was a factor of enrichment and not of division.
Luigi Tassi Biography
Student at the Military Academy of Modena, professional photographer-video maker and Hiking Guide. Author of “Gran Sasso” and “Selvaggio Blu” hiking guides. “I Custodi dei Confini” is an independent project in which he’s provided the idea, is the author of photography, shooting and editing; the historical-linguistic consultancy of Luca Calvi was the perfect complement to accomplish the DocuFilm and to question the term “ border” and "hut manager", this latter evolves to become a guardian of the memory of borders. He currently lives in Austria, OstTirol.
Luca Calvi Biography
Polyglot linguist, writer and historian, former university professor, he is the author of numerous academic publications as well as books on Dolomite mountaineering. He has to his credit several translations of books by the most important mountaineers and climbers that he has translated also on stage. He has also translated some films and, with Alessandro Filippini, is the author of the documentary "Messner and Purja, the collectors of peaks... 8000 meters
above the sky" presented at the Festival della Gazzetta dello Sport.
Free entrance
Walking from the Carnic Ridge between Cadore Veneto and Austrian East Tyrol to the passes that divide Belluno area from South Tyrol in Sesto Dolomites, I questioned myself on the meaning of the term "borders". No longer “dividing lines”, but meeting and exchange points of ethnolinguistic, ethnosacral and ethnopolitical "alterities" defined by the tragic legacy of the anti-utopia of nationalisms. Languages, customs, religion, regional or state membership must actually be seen as peculiarities and wealth brought as a dowry by populations that live in contact. "Border" huts and their managers witness the change from being "guardians" to becoming "keepers" of an area of new European identities. Along the imaginary line that we follow on our path, we carefully restudy history before rethinking the concepts of “border” and “identity” to forget the anti-utopia offered by the concepts of nations and nationalism, there are numerous peculiar linguistic communities that allow us to re-evaluate the concept of language and dialect: from the Tilga of Obertilliach, a local dialect presumably deriving from movements of human groups from Silesia still to be studied in depth, to the Kartitsch variant of East Tyrol, to move to the Upper Pusterese, or the variant of Sesto of the South Tyrolean. So much for the local variants of Tyrolean, for some German dialect, for others a minority language with various facets. The same applies to the "dialects" spoken on the other side, namely the Comelean and the Ladin spoken in Comelico, both variants of the Ladin Dolomitan spoken in the Cadore area, as well as the Cadore spoken in Auronzo. All the "local languages" listed above are the heritage of Tyroleans, South Tyroleans, Comelicans (Comelians) and Cadores, whose state belonging to Austria and Italy is clear, while their cultural and linguistic identity is totally to be rethought starting from a shared fund of common history in which multilingualism was a factor of enrichment and not of division.
Luigi Tassi Biography
Student at the Military Academy of Modena, professional photographer-video maker and Hiking Guide. Author of “Gran Sasso” and “Selvaggio Blu” hiking guides. “I Custodi dei Confini” is an independent project in which he’s provided the idea, is the author of photography, shooting and editing; the historical-linguistic consultancy of Luca Calvi was the perfect complement to accomplish the DocuFilm and to question the term “ border” and "hut manager", this latter evolves to become a guardian of the memory of borders. He currently lives in Austria, OstTirol.
Luca Calvi Biography
Polyglot linguist, writer and historian, former university professor, he is the author of numerous academic publications as well as books on Dolomite mountaineering. He has to his credit several translations of books by the most important mountaineers and climbers that he has translated also on stage. He has also translated some films and, with Alessandro Filippini, is the author of the documentary "Messner and Purja, the collectors of peaks... 8000 meters
above the sky" presented at the Festival della Gazzetta dello Sport.
Free entrance
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