AKU presents the docufilm PrimAscesa
PrimAscesa is a film that encompasses many souls, more or less beautiful, but perhaps none of them can be called fantastic. PrimAscesa, in fact, is a work of denunciation, a deep and heartfelt reflection, a funny and light parody. It is a journey into the collective unconscious, a poem dedicated to future generations, a distant but clear image of what we are facing, it is a bitter fruit. Above all, it is a collection of people, of improvised actors and directors and production excellences, professionals of all kinds and willing friends.
PrimAscesa is a film that encompasses many souls, more or less beautiful, but perhaps none of them can be called fantastic. PrimAscesa, in fact, is a work of denunciation, a deep and heartfelt reflection, a funny and light parody. It is a journey into the collective unconscious, a poem dedicated to future generations, a distant but clear image of what we are facing, it is a bitter fruit. Above all, it is a collection of people, of improvised actors and directors and production excellences, professionals of all kinds and willing friends.
The plot of the film is very simple. Two mountaineers in search of the last unclimbed peak to climb and ski down realize that there is nothing left in the world to explore. So they venture onto a dump, discovering step by step a world that has always been closed to their sight. So they climb the ugliest and most malodorous mountain, turning their curious and almost childlike gaze to the mountain that no one wants to see, the one created by Man himself.
The film is tiring even for the spectator. The director, Leonardo Panizza, wanted to bring to the cinema a world that disgusts us and that we tend to deny. The viewer is thus called upon to make an effort not to look away, he too must make an effort to reach the top and understand that the mountain that seems to be made of earth is actually a mountain of garbage that he himself contributes to increasing day after day. It is not easy to accept this accusation, luckily Simon and Giovanni with their lightness and irony take us by the hand in this nightmare, always coming out, who knows how, with a smile.
PrimAscesa participated in this last edition of the Trento Film Festival and won the CinemAMoRE Award, assigned to the best work in the Orizzonti Vicini section, dedicated to films produced or shot in Trentino Alto Adige. The film will now be distributed in hundreds of national and international festivals and, at the same time, through self-powered screenings by Ciclocinema’s system of bicycles that will allow for a zero impact projection.
