TRIONFO DELLA MORTE

of TOTI Gianni

FRANCE, 2002, 00:23:07

Production : CICV PIERRE SCHAEFFER
Genre : Video art, Video poem
Keyword : Allegory, Special effects, Movement, Poetry

Summary :
TRIONFO DELLA MORTE ET MORT SANS TRIOMPHE AVEC DANSES MACABRES is Gianni Toti's ex-third song or, better worse, his third scream. "The triumph of death" was the title given to the Campanian DE PISA's (circa 1300-1340) frescoes by the great Tuscan painter Buomanico BUFFALMACO, friend of Giovanni BOCACCIO (remember the DECAMERON tales and the numerous stories of which he has been one of the most "sollazzevoli" protagonist, and finished in a synthesis that delayed its meaning !
Especially the meaning of the "gruesome thinker", in which we discover a strange image of Rodin's Thinker (yes ! the sculptor of thought, Auguste Rodin), before, not after his lifetime...
In a weird "platonic cave", the "gruesome thinker" re-lives the frescoes of the TRIUMPH OF DEATH, of HELL (and of THE DEVIL) and of the UNIVERSAL JUDGEMENT.
Those frescoes are accompanied with the grotesque (and Berlusconian too ?) images of the macabre dances, which, in the past millenium, have been one of the best illustrations of the conflict between the "courteous horsemen" of the "reasoned garden" (not only of the Decameronian time and space) and the un-reasonable ideology of the Catholic Church (and of the other "religiolutions" !). Among the "parodic" images, some cruel devilries of the frescoes show musics, songs and "macabre dances", burlesque processions carrying the burning of the DEVIL ! The cosmoteists accompany the 3-D birth of the macabre constellation of the thinker in the chaosmos, the thinker being the metaphor and metonymy of the third song-scream, and actually, THE DEATH OF TRIUMPH. There is no TRIUMPH OF DEATH anymore, and unfortunately, not even a TRIUMPH OF LIFE.

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