un progetto di Tratti Documentari
a cura di Gianluca Stazi e Giuseppe Casu
in collaborazione con i minatori del Sulcis Iglesiente

Vincitore del 70° Prix Italia 2018 nella categoria Radio Documentary e Reportage e del Prix Europa 2018 come Best European Radio Documentary.

Il tempo delle miniere è custodito nelle gallerie allagate, tra i resti dei villaggi minerari, nelle acque rosse che attraversano le dune, nelle scelte di un maestro, nella voce di una lampada a carburo, in un vecchio nastro magnetico…Buio, paga, pericolo, acqua, vagone, laveria, esplosivo, paura, perforatrice, bedaux, occupazione, cronometro, turno, galleria, minerale, pozzo.Sono alcune parole che abitano questo passato, seguendole abbiamo incontrato il senso del Noi, la dignità nel lavoro e l’irrefrenabile desiderio di poter lasciare qualcosa di buono ai figli… Quantomeno la storia di chi eravamo.

Regia: Gianluca Stazi e Giuseppe Casu
Suono: Gianluca Stazi
Commissioning editor: Daria Corrias e Fabiana Carobolante per Tre Soldi Radio3Rai
Produzione: Tratti Documentari
Coproduzione: Rai Radio3

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The Upside Down
by Gianluca Stazi and Giuseppe Casu for Radio3 Rai (2018)

Silvestro has worked in the mine since he was 23 years old, he is the son of a miner, the son of the mine, he makes love with the mountain. Now he is 67 years old.
Manlio, at 40 years of age, left teaching to go and work in the mine, but to know himself and this new world, he has to take on the most infamous job: the time-keeper. He is now 88 years old.
The paths of these two men, different but parallel, meet in 1992 when they barricade themselves in for months in the San Giovanni mine, laying explosives across the opening, to prevent the closure of the mine and the desertification of the territory.
Now that the mines are closed and the feared desertification advances, Manlio and Silvestro want to send us this message.

Direction: Gianluca Stazi, Giuseppe Casu
Script: Gianluca Stazi, Giuseppe Casu
Sound: Gianluca Stazi
Editing: Gianluca Stazi

Producing organisation: Tratti Documentari

Commissioning editor: Daria Corrias, Fabiana Carobolante for Tre Soldi – Radio3 Rai
Coproducing organisation: Rai Radio3

Original title “Il Sottosopra”
Year of production: 2018
Running time: 44’ 44’’

PRIX ITALIA 2018, RADIO DOCUMENTARY AND REPORTAGE
THE WINNER IS: THE UPSIDE DOWN (RAI, Italy)

A piece of almost sculpted radio with a radical use of effects and normally unheard voices. It lures the listener from the light into the dark of a mine and an explosive stand-off. An eloquent observation, even a microcosm of a changing world, unearthing beauty, evocation, and a past time of comradeship, echoing through the empty spaces left behind in the mountains.

The PRIX EUROPA 2018 for the Best European Radio Documentary of the Year goes to:
The Upside Down

Ten years of work produced this timeless story, about the dignity and spirituality of work.
Patiently, it leads us deep into the recesses of the natural world and the human soul.
We heard a real musical experience composed of natural sounds and peoples’ memories, all told with great tenderness.
The documentary turned our preconceptions of this typical social subject upside down with its sense of humanity and poetry.
It was a big story from a hole in the mountain.

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For all the no-italian speakers THE UPSIDE DOWN is now on RADIO ATLAS. Thanks to the magical and lovely Eleanor McDowall this incredible story can now cross the borders and come in new and different ears.