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"They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out of Bismarck,and Hitler is going to end up as a piece of cheese."

 

 

I Mastri [OmeU, Italiano with Engl. Subt.)], I 2025, R: Daniele De Michele, 63 Min

Q&A with the Director Don Pasta/Daniele De Michele

Six masters craft their creations from raw materials: earth, wood, glass, and stone.

A work of great value not only culturally, but also linguistically and anthropologically. 
From the north to the south of Italy, Daniele De Michele portrays incredible characters: the last artisans, the last “Mastri”, unique in their humanity and in their craft.


Un'opera di grande valore non solo dal punto di vista culturale, ma anche linguistico e antropologico.
Dal nord al sud dell'Italia, Daniele De Michele ritrae personaggi straordinari: gli ultimi artigiani, gli ultimi «Maestri», unici per la loro umanità e per la loro maestria.

They transform and shape it using the power of natural elements: water, fire, and air. Two alabaster craftsmen from Volterra, a young Neapolitan luthier, clay pot makers in Romagna, a drum maker on the slopes of Vesuvius, a young Senegalese man learning glassmaking in Murano, and a Venetian master carpenter.

Their work leads them to observe the changing world, the closure of workshops, mass production, and the end of the transmission of knowledge. Everything is synthesized in an ephemeral and symbolic work that has been built every year for centuries with wood cut in Novoli, in Salento.

A metaphor for the myth of Sisyphus, of the stone that continues to be lifted despite everything, because the masters, tenacious and proud, remain to resist the elements and defend the eternity of their knowledge.

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Daniele De Michele in arte Don Pasta è economista e insegna “Il linguaggio del cibo” alla Facoltà di Scienze di Roma 3.
Come regista, è autore di “Géants dans ma cité” (France 3), I Mastri, I Villani e I Naviganti (Rai Cinema). In televisione collabora assiduamente con Geo And Geo (RAI3), La Prova del Cuoco (Rai 1), la rete LaEffe.

Ha pubblicato diversi libri, tra cui “Il pranzo della domenica” (Saggiatore), Artusi Remix (Mondadori) e Food Sound System (Feltrinelli). 
Lo spettacolo Food Sound System è in tournée mondiale dal 2001 (Stati Uniti, Vietnam, Mozambico, Algeria, Finlandia, Libano, Turchia, Inghilterra, Francia, Germania, Spagna) .

 

   

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