The city and the sky is a participatory video project. The video, shot in Calabria between the Piana di Gioia Tauro and the Aspromonte, tells the meeting between a group of men and women of different ages and geographical origins and their search to "make a home".

 

It is they, the displaced, the displaced, who make up a provisional but possible community, a mirage that vibrates with vitality and beauty but that a breath of wind could blow away.

 

In the background, the dramatic reality of the shanty town of San Ferdinando (RC) where the seasonal laborers live and where, during the shooting of this film, Sekine Traorè , a Malian laborer who was fatally wounded by the weapon of a carabiniere at the interior of a shack.

 

It is the death of Sekine that pushes the narrative to move between two floors : the "below", represented by the shacks and unfinished buildings of the Piana di Gioia Tauro, and the "above", the ruins of Amendolea, a place emptied of the Italy of bone that becomes the symbolic theater of a meeting and reconstruction ritual.

 

Calabria, as a symbol of many other places, near and far. Of a haemorrhage of people looking for a home and, at the same time, of entire empty villages; of a sick, dried up and desertified body to take care of.