IN AQUIS FUNDATA – Pordenone Docs Fest

IN AQUIS FUNDATA

2017, Italy, 65'

Andrea De Fusco

LET'S SAVE VENICE
↘︎ ACQUISTA BIGLIETTO

director

Andrea De Fusco


Retrospective “Let’s Save Venice!”

In a Venice transformed into a amusement park, five characters linked to tradition continue to find the meaning of this unique city in the water.

Present-day Venice. Far from the swarms of tourists and cruise ships an alternate topography is made plain— one lived at the edges of the ancient city’s lagoons, beneath the surface of its canals. A shipwright, a Venetian rowing champion, a diver, a fish merchant and a fisherman chronicle their daily lives as proximate and dependent on water, the founding element of the Venetian Republic a thousand years prior.
These contemporary Venetians uphold the vanishing traditions of a people, a place, and an amphibious way of life. Immersed in the aqueous landscape of one of the world’s most cinematic cities, In Aquis Fundata documents local Venetians and their precarious futures.

Andrea De Fusco – director, photographer and artist born in Rome and raised in Venice. He trained in the field of cinema and art in Rome, Paris and New York. Among others he is the author of Training at Gleason’s Gym (2015), Big Apple Juice (2014), Berlino-la mutante (2012).

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