From January 22 to 29 last was held in Bari II edition of Bif & st, Bari International Film & TV Festival this year chaired by Ettore Scola and directed by Felice Laudadio. In the documentary section was screened out of competition documentary film "RockMan"
"This is the story of a struggle without borders, a rebellious generation, a sound that explodes and involves a vibration that set on fire the hearts and dig deep in the corridors of the psyche, through the maze of the mind, "it said so in the form of presentation of the documentary film Rockman, which premiered a few days ago at the International Film & Bari TV Festival. The film is produced by David Barletti (Fluid productions) and Thomas Manfredi (Rhythm radical), funded by Apulia Film Commission and directed by Mattia Epifani director and writer of Lecce. Through timely interviews with the protagonists of the Apulian reggae of the early 90s, backed up by a nostalgic audiovisual archive, the film reconstructs the many valuable pieces of that mosaic that has the highest expression of the legendary figure of Piero Longo, ie Militant P founder of the "world" Sud Sound System and among the leaders of the birth of reggae in Italy. On the occasion of We interviewed the director.
How did the idea of \u200b\u200bthe project?
The idea of \u200b\u200bmaking the film was created by Thomas Manfredi and his book: From the Caribbean to Salento, in Puglia on the origins of reggae. When I was a director and writer, I structured the film you are writing and editing with Mattia Soranzo. For me the film is about one of the last chapters of an era of struggle, the end of a certain enthusiasm and the generation that gave birth to last political antagonism using an artistic language. In this case the music: reggae and rap, through the figure of Militant P take on historical significance of greater thickness.
Why the "subject" is centered on the figure of Militant P?
Because his personal story is the profile of an entire era, not only for the musical influence on his generation, but because his story recounts the passage between the end of a certain mentality antagonist, which previously existed and now is to be banned and that today, the ideological level, monotonous. His story is one of those who live in between two opposite worlds, both foreign and feeling, despite everything, continues in its own way, to resist and end up being in creased. You can not separate the artist from man, nor by its history, in part because it is just his story to make it captive: his story may reflect that of an entire generation of an era and even today many experience a feeling of frustration towards society and the possibilities for individual and collective freedoms inside.
Originally Sud Sound System propaganda "culture, love and rooting," according to you what remains today of that message and genuine rebel?
certainly in their own way still pursuing this goal, were able to promote their well ideas and have played an important role to raise awareness of certain issues, giving many to believe in something. Not only of their kind, but in many other forms of artistic expression today has lost enthusiasm, some fresh creative, instinctive. There are a few good ideas and a little courage to express them, are more satisfied with the public, making it complicit in a system of approval and cultural leveling that should be the enemy of every artist and every subculture.
Despite the political developments in natural / cultural, there is currently a band or Puglia Salento that can collect and ignite ideology dialect of the late seventies?
Definitely yes, although I think that rather than in music or art in general, which has become very individualistic nature of things even in the content, today there are other trends that carry the idea of \u200b\u200bstruggle in the sense of collective movement, they are in roads and in areas where it expresses the antagonism and disagreement with the physical confrontation, but that's another story.
you think the charismatic figure of Militant P. was forcibly forgotten?
No, I do not think, simply because, as Treble, the public has not had the opportunity to truly know and fully Piero artistically, since it came out from the scene before this happen and, for reasons of force majeure, absolutely not caused by the will of anyone.
Has anyone been able to take advantage of this exclusion?
No, but generally his efforts laid the foundations because they develop an interest in the genre and not only in Puglia. This film shows how so many of her friends and artists of his generation, recognize his pioneering role and the respect for his significant contribution, even fundamental. "
Giuseppe Arnesano
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