Video, sound / Performance
3min25
DP and make-up: Beatrice Mika Sakaki.
When I was growing up and living in Mariglianella, my house overlooked a courtyard and the main street of the town. Every single day I was bound to hear neomelodico blasted at full volume by anyone at any hour. 'La nostra storia' by Raffaello was the favorite song of Antonietta, my teenager neighbor who sang it everyday at the top of her lungs from her room along with songs from Pino Giordano, Alessio, Nico Desideri and many others. I spent my entire childhood hating these artists and their fans for their trashiness, their loudness, thinking I was somehow a better human being for not enjoying that kind of art like they did.
Napoli is many things: Geolier and Raffaello, Gomorra and Un posto al sole, Mare Fuori and Rita De Crescenzo, the old man with TUTTO PASSA tattoo on his chest and Maradona, and all of them are linked together in some obscure way having the same emotional, cultural and political value. This chaos, this love and endurance, most surely this genuine passion Antonietta had towards neomelodico, is the same feeling that leads me to sing 'La nostra storia'.
Napoli is many things: Geolier and Raffaello, Gomorra and Un posto al sole, Mare Fuori and Rita De Crescenzo, the old man with TUTTO PASSA tattoo on his chest and Maradona, and all of them are linked together in some obscure way having the same emotional, cultural and political value. This chaos, this love and endurance, most surely this genuine passion Antonietta had towards neomelodico, is the same feeling that leads me to sing 'La nostra storia'.