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UP THERE

LASSU

By Bartolomeo PAMPALONI

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Documentary - Completed 2022

Isravele has been living for the last twenty years at the top of a mountain where in absolute solitude he is toiling at an extraordinary mega-project. But as of late, a shopping center has opened along the edge of the same slope and is threatening to spoil the peace of this place.

Festivals
& Awards

Trento Film Festival 2022

Competiton, Jury prize

Italy Laceno d'oro film festival 2022

Doc Special Award

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY, FRANCE
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Bartolomeo PAMPALONI
- Synopsis
- Nino was a bricklayer and lived in the outskirts of Palermo with his family. Now he lives alone on top of a mountain and he is a prophet. He calls himself Isravele, the backward version of “elevarsi”, which in Italian means “to rise up”. Up there, on a barren mountain on the edge of the city, is his home: an old abandoned observatory that over the course of twenty years of tireless solitary work he has transformed into a portentous naive temple, considered one of the most impressive examples of outsider art in Europe. Isravele goes up and down every day with a backpack loaded with pebbles and concrete. It brings up what is below and thus purifies it. He transforms neglect into beauty, through a constant, almost inhuman work. This is his prayer, his message to the society that besieges him, down there: pilgrims and tourists threaten the peace of this place on the edge of the suburbs by going up to visit it in search of a photo or a selfie: they want to find out who this mysterious man is, who in the city is called the hermit.

UP THERE

LASSU

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