The coffin arrived in a horse driven black carriage with gold detailing. The ceremony gave a new dimension to the concept of kitsch. That is how a sunny day on the 20th of August 2015 might be remembered for all the wrong reasons, when above the San Giovanni Bosco church, in the Cinecitta region, a helicopter appeared that dropped rose petals over a coffin, which members of the deceased were carrying to the funeral. The day in Rome when it rained rose petals. Organized crime in the region has found a way to control politicians, and has also had a hand in constructing nomadic and refugee camps, in recruiting immigrants and nomads to take part in illegal activity, as well as exploiting them for their labour.
#A journey into a black hole movie
Stretching throughout this rundown region, which is not far from the currently existing movie theme park, is the Roman mafia kingdom. The famous film studio, which was once was the envy of Hollywood, is found in the south-eastern suburbs of Rome. Yet, since 2009, the organization has had its headquarters in Rome, from where it undertakes a variety of activities that include publishing, documentary co-productions, theatrical performances, musical projects, information campaigns and educational workshops.Ĭinecitta has not been chosen by chance as the place to run the communal academy. "DaSud" means "from the South" and the organization was founded in Calabria in 2005.
However, Rome need not be envious of the Italian south for its syndicates of crime. When reference is made to the Italian mafia, we tend to first think of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, the Camorra of Naples or of Calabria’s 'Ndràngheta. This organization proposes a new narrative on the mafia, thus promoting civil and social rights. What has brought us here is the Goethe-Institut’s “Freiraum” venture, which has ‘nullified’ the distance between Nicosia and Rome by joining the ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation with the daSud organization. It is a creativity festival, which is being hosted at the particular school because it has become an exemplary communal academy that is against the mafia: a social and cultural workspace in a secondary school. The starting point is at the Enzo Ferrari Institute in Cinecitta, where the first day of works for the Restart Festival 2018 has just been completed. Peter’s Square, and who eat in the trattorias and stroll around Trastevere, do not see or even suspect exists, and, actually, are not eager to get to know. This is the side of Rome that tourists, who throw coins into the Trevi Fountain and flock to the Colosseum, the Piazza di Spagna or St. This is what Marco Carta, the journalist of the newspaper “Il Messaggero”, who is guiding us through the “dark” side of the Eternal City, believes. For many, it is the ultimate symbol of modern Rome, as well as of Italy: an imposing and powerful vision that has remained incomplete and thus embodies all its weaknesses, contradictions and frustrations. It is the unfinished roof of the new swimming centre designed by Santiago Calatrava. From a distance, one might mistake it for huge circus tent, and, if using one’s imagination, it can even be seen as reminiscent of a large dinosaur’s skeleton. On the eastern outskirts of the Italian capital, close by the newest university in the city, Tor Vergata, a mountain like construction of white steel, emerges from the landscape. A walk through the Eternal City’s dark side: the mafia’s den, the drug piazzas, and the streets of faded dreams.
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