Mala apokalipsa

Mala apokalipsa, 2008
fantasy documentary

Concept, screenplay, and direction: ALVARO PETRICIG
Photography and editing: PAOLO COMUZZI
Sound composition: MASSIMO TONIUTTI
Voice: ANJA MEDVED, ELENA BUCCI
Assistant director, organization, and interviews: MICHELA PREDAN
Translations: MICHELA PREDAN, ŽIVA GRUDEN, KSENIJA LEBAN, NACE NOVAK
Production secretary: SARA HOBAN
Executive producers: MATEJA ZORN, MARTINA HUMAR
Producer: ALEŠ DOKTORIČ
Co-producer: CIRCOLO DI CULTURA - KULTURNO DRUŠTVO IVAN TRINKO
Production: ZAVOD KINOATELJE, KINOATELJE
Year: 2008
Video: 41’

Mala apokalipsa (Minor Apocalypse) is neither a documentary nor fiction. Paradoxically, it could be defined as "science-fiction documentary", for it is based on a true story - the death of a village. Cisgne is (was) a small settlement in the Nadiža / Natisone Valleys which, similarly to many other mountain or remote settlements, was left to abandonment and ruin by the economic reasoning of our modern lifestyle. The last inhabitants left Cisgne after the earthquake in 1976 when the abandonment of the village and transfer to other settlements in the valley below was imposed on the village dwellers as the only possible solution even though their village only suffered minor damages.

The story is a patchwork of testimonies and memories of the village's daily life and its destiny, with deeply involving and even painful memories awoken by images as persistent as nightmares and almost corroded by the very substance of the memory itself, combined with intuitive reflections on the meaning of time in a village in ruin which may arise in an "outsider", uninfluenced by the life stories of those involved.
When apocalypse approaches settlements such as Cisgne, it comes quietly, without a proper announcement, for the events occurring at the very "periphery of an empire" are of no interest to anybody. What is visible to the eye is insatiable vitality with which nature, indifferent to major or minor events in the village's history, burries and destroys the traces of human experience.

Meanwile, many Cisgnes in the Nadiža / Natisone Valleys await a similar fate.

Film Mala apokalipsa je izdan v DVD zbirki "Triptih",
kjer sta zbrana še dva druga filma Alavara Petriciga:
film Starmi cajt in Sarce od hiše.