Al RIFF Awards 2018 Roma Independent Film Festival XVII Edition – 16/23 November DOC RKM ROME Kaputt Mundi Matteo Todisco and Andrea Santoro

"Open City", "The Eternal City", “Roma, caput mundi "... It still? What is the current reality and how its inhabitants live?

Emerge an answer universe, pieces of a puzzle that will always remain incomplete.

Set entirely in the city of Rome, The documentary wants to launch a deeper reflection on the present conditions of the city, aiming the spotlight on areas and socio-cultural reality that usually live in the shadows and that, the eye of the authors, It is best placed to tell the city today (such as Anonymous Painters of the Trullo or the artistic movement DOM Walking Man). In counterpoint, the vision of artistic personalities of renown, Active in the Roman cultural scene, national and international, that in one way or another are citizens of the capital.

The result is a mix of evidence, thoughts, interpretations and reinterpretations of the metropolis on the part of those who live, each from their own angle, each according to their cold, hard luggage, whether they are well-known personalities – Gian Luigi Rondi, Lina Wertmüller, Massimiliano Bruno, Ascanio Celestini, Alessandro Mannarino – or ordinary people.

Lowest common denominator that binds all respondents, a sense of belonging.

The title "RKM – Roma Kaputt Mundi "wants to be a provocation, a way to counter the static and untouchability of one of the most important cities in the world and contradictory, to engage in a constructive discussion away from slogans and folklore that are labeled for millennia. It takes therefore a safe distance from the coated vision of "Rome postcard", in order to paint a portrait that has less possible filters, do not be deceived by useless aestheticism, Perhaps most decadent, but still fascinating, certainly more representative and current.

The narrative line develops following two strands: on the one hand through artistic interviews with personalities of great renown linked to two different generations, respectively "La Dolce Vita" and the one that goes from the nineties to now; the other following the stories of ordinary people, differently with the territory, within which initiate artistic and social practices of resistance and aggregation to counter the decline of the city.

The interview and observational documentary, while along parallel streets, talk to each other resulting in a linguistic experimentation that reflects the relevance and complexity of the issues addressed.

A speech that moves on two separate tracks, the visual and the one of content, each complementing the other, with the intent to disrupt the preconceived vision of the viewer, stimulating a personal reflection.

RKM takes a picture of Rome today, aiming for the goal especially of reality little known, aimed at implementing their great little aesthetic and ethical revolution.

The documentary aims to be an open window, through which to look at the capital without pretending to give her identity, without wanting to recognize strengths or defects, mission impossible, because Rome is Rome ...!

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