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25 November1973
The abandoned quarry
Author
Famiglia Ranza
Format
Super8
Duration
4'12''
Credits
Music & sound design by Diego Tedesco

The Ranza family likes adventure. Often the Ranzas move as a group under the eye of Stefano's film camera, exploring sometimes unusual spaces. Like this incursion into the abandoned quarry of Morosolo, which from a Super8 film of a Sunday outing on 25 November 1973 soon turns into a place of cinematic imagination: perhaps another planet or simply the valley of death. Children, adults and this time accompanied by a dog, the Ranzas do not stop at the difficulty of moving around in a hostile place, slipping when they can no longer walk. So have we ended up on Mars or in a place we can now rename Morosolo Point? More prosaically, it must be said that the abandoned quarry belonged to the Rusconi family who extracted Marna calcarea, a material used for the production of lime and cement. A place of considerable geological interest with polychrome limestone stratifications on the wall of the former quarry. Of interest to young and old explorers with a camera.

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