ARCTIC SPLEEN - il film Piergiorgio Casotti Casotti / Mammutfilm - Documentario, 63'

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Regia: Piergiorgio Casotti - Colonna sonora: Massimo Zamboni - Attori: Hans, Elvira, Ole, Kaleraaq - Edit: Nadia Fugazza - Mix suono: Diego Schiavo

"I try to have fun, but sometimes I cannot smile" - If the populations of mainland Canada, Denmark or the United States had suicide rates comparable to those of their Inuit populations, national emergencies would be declared

Arctic Spleen is a self-fundedproject.
 

  • it's a Book
  • it's a Documentary
  • it's a Short multimedia

A comprehensive work that offers a different social perspective over the 3.000 Inuits community on the east coast of Greenland. One of the currently lesser known societies, discovered and rescued by sure extinction only in 1894.

Since 2009 I have been photographing and filming in east Greenland trying to paint the social, cultural and environmental landscape of the region and its community, focusing on the phenomenon that has earned this place an enviable record.


A mirror on the fears of a huge part of young Greenlanders inclined to commit suicide.
A delicate exploration of the subtle and intimate war many young people fight against violence, boredom and emptiness, a struggle that has always been the “raison d’etre” of young generations, the difference being that in east Greenland many of them lose that battle.

Suicide here is experienced differently from the rest of the world. It's not perceived as the ultimate desperate act of a single person but considered an exit strategy deeply ingrained in the local culture. It was the ancient manner of solving problems, distortedly handed down over generations.

Premi: New York Photo Festival Invitational 2012 / Adana Short Film Festival 2012 / Skepto Film Festival 2012 / PDN Photo Annual 2011 / Collecchio Film Festival 2011 / 19th Ozu Film Festival 2011 / Los Angeles Time Best of the Web

www.piercasotti.com

linguaggio: English / subtitle English / italiano

 

Since 2009 a lot has happened and finally, in February 2014, my long term "Arctic Spleen" project has reached its end with the production of the long documentary. 

The whole project in its different faces (book, short, long documentary) received wide recognitions internationally and therefore I'd like to share some of the latest news with you.

BOOK  

  1. Selected by "The Washington Post" as the best 5 photobooks of 2013.

  2. Running for "Kessel photobook award" for the best 2014 photobook.

  3. Exhibited at the newly open "The Photobook Museum" in Cologne.

  4. Now part of the CAMeC permanent book collection.

  5. The book is almost sold out 

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DOCUMENTARY

  1. Won the 2013 "Corso Salani" award at the Trieste Film Festival for the best work in progress.

  2. Won the 2014 "Genova Film Festival" as Best Documentary and Critics choice award.