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Neighbourhood Watch - Sòne Screening
Still from ‘Sòne’ 2020, directed by Daniel Kemény
Wednesday 15th October 18:00-20:00 at EMBASSY Gallery
As a part of Lily Lavorato’s exhibition ‘ON THE SICK ROAD’, we will be hosting a special edition of Neighbourhood Watch, our monthly event for discussion around video art, youtube videos, animation, tiktoks, documentaries - any kind of image that moves.
Lily has chosen to screen the film ‘Sóne’, directed by Daniel Kemény, a film that documents “a journey into the music of a village, between present and past, between personal and collective emotions”
Sóne is 75 minutes long and will be screened at 6pm. The film is in Italian with English subtitles.
We invite you to watch the film with us, after which we will have a short break, and use the remaining time for discussion and the chance to either show your own works in progress, or anything that you feel relates to the film that you want to discuss. Tea and snacks will be provided.
The event is open to any quality of video and any kind of artist, or just anyone interested in engaging with moving-image works in a communal space. We warmly encourage quiet observers, the unprepared, and off the cuff critique.
You can find out more about Daniel’s film here and here, and Lily’s exhibition here.
Neighbourhood Watch is a monthly event at EMBASSY, you can find out more about it here.
Sòne Synopsis + Director’s Note as shared by Daniel Kemény :
Born in 1981 in Pietrapaola, Daniel Kemény studied Art and Sculpture in Berlin, Athens and Bologna. He exhibits since over ten years in cultural and art institutions in Europe and around the world, creating spatial installations and videos. Since 2010 he works cinematographically, where he combines expressive skills with his narrative needs, combining different points of view and languages. sòne: is his first feature-length documentary.
Forty years ago 2000 people lived there, today
Pietrapaola, in Calabria, is home to 200 people.
I was born there, the son of two Germans
who ended up there, who knows how,
I didn’t come back for twenty years.
Where are the others? And the stories?
A journey to the origins, in search of lost time.
My imagination and a man from my past, guardian
of memory, of music, guide me. A tale in which
symbols and reality meet and I see the art of living,
the “tranquillitudine”.
Pietrapaola is the town where I was born and raised,
where I lived until I was thirteen.
It had about 2000 inhabitants in 1970 and 150 in 2013.
I decided that I had to tell the story of the village before it
vanished and with him the background of my childhood,
and to do it through his music. I don’t get along with words.
I don’t think they can fix things, they don’t heal wounds,
they don’t repair tears. Music has transformed a place,
my story and that of the people of Pietrapaola, into a melody.