Oro

16 mm film | 08’ 40’’| 2011

Oro

16 mm film | 08’ 40’’| 2011

The falcon was the bird of the king. It is also connected to the alchemic language: bird language, considered as twitter, was the secret language spoken by alchemists. Bird language, also known as “Hermetic Qabalah”, an universal language spoken before the Babele tower, from which every other language was generated. 

This video wants  to tell through a metaphor, the meaning of gold today, focusing on the importance of a non-verbal language.

I invited an inhabitant of La Gomera island, to whistle the whole story from Ovidio’s Metamorphoses, while a falcon is free to fly inside the library of the Benedictine monastery of San Giovanni in Parma, one of the last alchemical places in Italy. 

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