Produced by Francesca Minini
Camera operator Ugo Carlevaro

Special thanks to:
Aero Club Salerno
and
Geoffrey Garrison
Fanny Gonella
Wolf von Kries
Riccardo Previdi
Francesco Rovaldi
Ivan Seal

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where are you? where are you?
if the air is your light and the wind is your voice
where are you? where are you?

any frequencies? It’s trying to communicate with us.

The ozone hole, which causes global warming and ice melting, was discovered 20 years ago by a group of American scientists from the NOAA. The hole, the scientists explained, has been caused by chemical agents, which were very diffused at that time.
Nowadays, in the opinion of the same scientist, the situation has significantly improved. The emissions have been drastically reduced to the point that the collapsing process of the ozone layer around the planet is slowing down.
So the hole is not getting bigger; on the contrary, in the forecast of the two experts, it is liable to close by 2070.

Not everyone agrees with it, obviously.

He always wanted the original version. The original version.

Perhaps but a vivid illustration… first of several large-scale civil defense exercises designed to test casualty evacuation plans.

Evacuate – evacuate - evacuate please leave the area now Evacuating from a risky territory

We explore Vesuvius’ crater from the plane
the audacity of modernity has trained us to challenge the double vertigo of abyss and sky at the same time.
700 meters of diameter – 600 of depth
it woke up in the earthquake of 73 – its birth caused the death of Pompeii.

Now from its lips only a few little clouds puff out.
Naples has lost that characteristic element of its landscape given by the bright white plume over the mountain summit.
The excursionists look down from the crater edge, curious to discover the features - if not the secrets - of this temporary slumber.

It is over - the emotion of the unexpected activity of tumultuous plumes and hot mud.
Here and there on the blobby walls just a little smoke, lazy and stagnating. One has to resort to the banal expedient of a piece of paper to demonstrate to the disappointed tourist that the fire is still brooding under the ashes.