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online screening > The Sky over Kibera (2019) by Marco Martinelli

On the occasion of the Italian Language Week and of the celebration for Dante’s 700 anniversary, online screening of The Sky over Kibera by Marco Martinelli produced by Teatro delle Albe, with a special introduction by the director.

Martinelli’s documentary is an art film: it tells us how the Divine Comedy was brought to life in the immense slum of Nairobi, Kibera, where the director worked with 150 children and adolescents, reinventing Dante’s masterpiece in English and Swahili. He does so with his poetic and visionary style, interweaving images of the poem’s performance with sequences shot specifically in the slum illustrating the transformation of theater into cinema. Three teenagers from Nairobi give voice to Dante, Virgil and Beatrice: they are the guides that lead the viewer into the labyrinth of Kibera, where the “dark forest” in which the poet is lost is more than just a metaphor: in Swahili, Kibera means “forest”.
Around them a chorus recites the tumult of being both beasts and damned, thieves and murderers, devils and corrupt politicians and poets who indicate the ways of salvation: between songs and acting, frenetic races and wild dances, the 150 protagonists create a fresco full of moving poetry, further confirmation of the universality of Dante’s masterpiece.

Available online on the  YouTube channel of the IIC Los Angeles from October 21 at 6 pm until October 24 at midnight.

 

 

  • Organized by: IIC Los Angeles
  • In collaboration with: Teatro delle Albe