Il sibilo lungo della Tarantai (The Long Hiss of the Tarantula)

Film

Title of the film Original title: Il sibilo lungo della Tarantai
English title: The Long Hiss of the Tarantula
Hungarian title: A tarantella sziszegése

Production and shooting info Country of the production: Italy - it
Year of production: 2006
Year of shooting: 0000
Length of the film: 80 min
Colouring: colour
Standard format: DVCAM
Recording format: DVCAM
Original language: Italian
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Language of subtitle: English

Description of the content Salento, a sunny plain at the southernmost tip of the Italian peninsula, is renowned for the presence of a particular type of spider which has been studied for centuries by musicologists, doctors and antropologists. The Tarantula is a mythical insect and its bite is symbolical but it is the main symbol of the culture of the Salento:. This small spider bit mostly women by injecting them with poison, and which could only be neutralized by dancing to the sound of the pizzica -therapeutic music which would cure their sickness- and by going to St. Paul’s Chapel in Galatina where they would ask for grace. Protagonists of the movie are the old men, poets- singers- farm workers from Salento, the old women, singers- farm workers, the singers and musicians of the Notte della Taranta Orchestra. With the participation of Pino Zimba, directed by the conductor Ambrogio Sparagna, the poetesses and poets who took part in the poetry-writing workshops directed by the non/conductor Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. A collective experience feeding the musical spirit of the territory and striking the continuous transformation of pop music.

Credits Director: Paolo Pisanelli
Producer: Sergio Quarta
Cinematographer: Paolo Pisanelli
Editor: Paolo Turla
Manuel Cassano
Sound: Manuel Cassano
Emanuele Costantini

Company / Institution Production: Big Sur
Distributor: Big Sur

Ethnicity and locality Etnic group: Italian
Continent: South Europe
Country: Italy - it
Location
(City, village, region, mountains, etc.): Salento

Tipology Type: non-fiction film
Form: documentary film

Related sciences Arts: irodalom
zene
Social science: ethnography

Keyword: rural life
Folk music
tradition

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