UNA LUNGHISSIMA OMBRA (Italia, 2025, 67’) di Andrea Laszlo De Simone
By layering music, literature, cinema, and painting, Una Lunghissima Ombra reminds us of a Gesamtkunstwerk: Andrea Laszlo De Simone’s latest artistic project consists of an album and a visual poem made up of ‘cinematic tableaux’, in which we catch glimpses of fragments of (hyper)reality, natural elements, and cityscapes.
The musician, composer and chansonnier Andrea Laszlo De Simone composed the music for The Animal Kingdom, Promises, and I nostri giorni, for which he also wrote the script.
In Rome, there were kids who would steal sparks from American Hardcore to create a clandestine tradition made of sweat, worn tapes, and punk saints. In Florence, the nights of the 1980’s would become shimmering experiences: Pelù screamed in the alleys, Bruno Casini opened portals, and the town danced like a sleepless creature covered in sequins and nicotine. Then came the silence of the pandemic. Cosmo set up a big party with no social distancing and brought the stars inside a marquee. Meanwhile, The Longest Shadow lay across landscapes like a record dreamed by a plotless cinema: visual poetry, presage, songs that exist even before they are sung. Zagor would ride across all this on a horse. The Camillas would laugh in people’s faces, and the Late – à la Pirandello – Wall of Sound became a pirate ship: “C’mon, let’s go!” But where? Roads to Nowhere does not know. All in all, it doesn’t care to find out!
Anthony Ettorre and Paola Cassano
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