LETTERS FROM THE DESERT (EULOGY TO SLOWNESS)
88 min. 2010, Italy (filmed in India)

Directed by Michela Occhipinti

Photographed by Pau Mirabet

Sound by Vep Culleré

Edited by Antonella Bianco

Produced by Michela Occhipinti

Co-produced by Start Studios

World sales/contact: Michela Occhipinti,

Borgo Vittorio 33, 00193 Rome, Italy

+39 3395341007

michela_o@hotmail.com

The world runs. Hari walks. His worn-out shoes cover long distances in the desert to deliver messages that are closed in letters with precious handwriting for addressees who live in remote villages, cloistered in a forgotten temporal dimension, out of the modern world. The letters talk about loves, weddings, successes and deceases. Those that bear news of death are immediately recognisable, the envelopes with the right corner torn off, those that Hari reads out in the doorway, and then tears to bits, because bad news must be destroyed, scattered, deleted forever.

In a world in which time is luxury, speed is synonymous with efficiency and civilization, the story of Hari is a return to slowness, to the harsh nature of the Thar desert. Until some weird metallic towers arrive with electricity and cell phones, with a new speedy civilization...

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Režissöör Michela Occhipinti

Hari on postiljon Thari kõrbes, Indias. Kui suur maailm kihutab, siis Hari jalutab. Mees toob hoolika käega kirjutatud ümbrikke, milles teateid armastusest, edust, surmastki. Paistab, et siinses maailmas on inimesel aega teise inimese jaoks. Kuni kord hakkavad ka kõrbesse kerkima tornid, mis toovad elektri, mobiilid, kiirustamise – uue tsivilisatsiooni.