RMHC – 1989/1999 HARDCORE A ROMA (Italia, 2012 – 2026 versione restaurata, 76’) di Giulio Squillacciotti
With the presence of director and producer
What prompted young people in Rome, between the mid-1980s and the late 1990s, to spontaneously organise around American hardcore and punk music and establish a new local tradition? Filmed between 2005 and 2010 and released in 2012, the film has now been restored and offers a journey through the lives and archives of those involved.
Giulio Squillacciotti is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the speculative potential of history through fiction, misrepresentation, and the reactivation of collective memory. Alessandro Giordani is a film editor and audiovisual post-production specialist. As a filmmaker, he makes music videos, adverts, and documentaries.
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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