In Perpetuo
YEAR
2024
WHERE
Puglia, Italy
Length
88’
Direction
Federico Barassi
GENRE
Documentary
Screenplay
Federico Barassi e Fabio Abatantuono
CAST
Giuseppe Marino
Antonio Delli Muti
Peppino Langianese
Natale Masella
Michele Spataro
Director of Photography
Mario Bucci
PRODUCER
Ivan D’Ambrosio
EDITING
Federico Barassi
Production
Dinamo Film with Rai Cinema
Music
Massimo Giangrande
Selected at
53rd Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist
65th Festival dei Popoli
With the contribution of
Apulia Region, Apulia Film Commission Foundation and The Regional Tourism Board Pugliapromozione from resources of the PO FESR Puglia 2014/2020, Axis VI, Action 6.8, Interventions for the competitive repositioning of tourist destinations, under the intervention sheet “Promoting Cinema 2023”
PLOT
In perpetuo explores the lives of the last knowers of an ancient fishing practice that is nowadays disappearing: trabucco fishing. Shot entirely on the Gargano coastline – more specifically between Peschici and Vieste – the documentary recounts the daily life of the last remaining trabucco masters and their heirs.
With the approach of observational cinema, the trabucchi become the very microcosm where everything takes place and where the rhythm of the days is constantly set by the relationship between man and a sea, as generous as it is impetuous and destructive. In perpetuo wants to reflect on the relationship between past, present and future, questioning the concept of passing on from generation to generation.
The four characters, with their gaze pointed toward the horizon of the sea, reflect on the uncertain survival of these ancient machines that are enduring the approaching of their demise still anchored to those same rocks, after centuries.