Nodas. A documentary on the new generation of Launeddas players.
ENGLISH
Nodas. Launeddas at the time of crisis.
With an origin dating back to 3000 years ago, Launeddas are a wind instrument from the Nuragic civilisation (Sardinia, 18th century BC/2nd century AD) bearing contaminations from all over the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. While between 1960s and 1970s they risked to disappear, today Launeddas are extraordinary alive and always more widespread. Nowadays "time of crisis", they attained again those levels of artistic excellence that just some decades ago looked unreachable anymore. This documentary portrays five talents from the new generation of Launeddas players and it explores through their eyes, the interstitial spaces between folklorism and ethnicity, traditions and experimentation, identity and globalization. And at the same time, it opens a harsh (but not resigned) aperture on the conditions of an entire generation, in an island like Sardinia struggling with structural socioeconomic problems, whose solution is still far away.
10 май 2020
