Chichibìo Pictures

A film by Gino Ceriachi, 15 min We live with Nicole, one half day lesson in the primary school of Piandimeleto, Marche, Italy. His teacher has developed the Laid-Back Didactics. Written and directed by Gino Ceriachi

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A film by Gino Ceriachi, 92 min CUORE CALMO/STEADY HEART This is not the Marche of Raphael, Rossini and Leopardi; perhaps the only local names to have crossed national borders in the territory’s three-thousand-year history. This is the Marche of tiny theatres, built in small, obscure locations. It is said that there are almost 100 playhouses in Marche. A theatre in every town is a consequence of the quest for municipal autonomy, but is, paradoxically, a key factor in uniting the region. Marche is, sometimes rightly, a territory of secondary importance when compared to other Italian regions. The Adriatic Sea should have been called the Sea of Ancona. For eight centuries, the region was called the March of Ancona. Its vocation was the supply of popes and cardinals, rather than the plotting of wars. How else can you explain that in the last thousand years, with its enviable position on the Adriatic, it has never seriously tried to challenge Venice, which is located on the periphery of that same sea? Paintings in these museums do not interest us for their colour, style, beauty or innovation, but for the tales of geopolitics they tell, and of the consequences of these events in the present. Marche is a region strongly characterized by the notion of plurality. The very name Marche, or the Marches, is unique in its plural form among the names of the regions of Italy. Historically, two distinct Marche have developed: north of the River Esino, the Marca del Gallo, or rooster, is that of the Senones, the Gallic founders of Senigallia. Its dialect is influenced by the speech of Pesaro and Romagna. To the south of the Esino is the Marca del Picchio, or woodpecker, with a dialect unique to "Macerada", that is, Macerata and Ascoli Piceno. No other region is divided by two such distinct dialects. Aediculae, or wall shrines, built at crossroads, and dedicated to the Madonna and saints, abound in Marche. They are unknown, not only in Germany and England, but also in the very Catholic Spain. This religious zeal can only derive from the 320 years of direct papal rule. The industrialization of Marche in the post-war period does not appear to have alienated workers. Even where there is mass production, one does not note that characteristic detachment from the product.