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Beddu Nostru Signuri

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Beddu Nostru Signuri is an intense and suggestive journey through the atmospheres, charged with color, pathos and mysticism, of religious celebrations held in various Sicilian towns.To the urgent rhythmn of the song written by Guglielmo Tasca appears a series of parades with emotional, adoring, excited and festive crowds of people. The editing is tight, the images saturated with people, movement and color. The details of bodies, faces, details of the religious vestments and the more profane aspects linked to the celebrations - the wine, the money put in the collection, the gunshots come thick and fast. Using a keen documentary angle that is careful to capture atmosphere and unusual viewpoints, the video offers us a panorama of a world strongly anchored to religious belief, tradition and collective rituals.
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