Vie Crealla

Crealla is an Italian village that lies on the Prealps before the Swiss border and is connected by carriageable road only since 2004. The film Vie Crealla embeds the village, its inhabitants, and its road within the mountainous ragged landscape surrounding it.

From wide-open faces of the mountains to the lowest valleys, where old rivers endlessly erode deeper beds, Vie Crealla is an audio-visual wonder across a space where the social tissues of Crealla resonate to the same sound the air does. Led by the Crealla’s bells’ chime, the images of a mountain disappearing in a colourless mist, a traditional women’s skirt melting into a mountain chain, and a moon moving away from itself, time and space dimensions are sublimated.

Through a layered expression of how life in Crealla can be understood at the sacral edge between perception and understanding, the viewers are allowed to embody the experience of the field and be incarnated within the landscapes of Crealla.