Presented in collaboration with Internazionale KidsAfter the listening, the kids will be guided through a series of educational and playful activities by Chloé Despax. ‘Et si Ganda s’était sauvé’ (What if Ganda had escaped?) is a fictional story based on the (real) passage of Ganda, an Indian rhinoceros, to the island of If in 1516. […]
Winner Premio Lucia 2022 Featuring Cecilia Ciolle Gallucci, Zahra Ed Darrak, Laura Amponsah, Giada Pignotti and Sofia VolpiSound by Valeria MiracapilloFrom Tania Ferrucci’s diary In 2022, Radio Papesse – in collaboration with Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale – launched the 3rd edition of PREMIO LUCIA for audio production, dedicating it to five diaries that are about […]
They wished me a great long life,’ says Giovanni Farina. Until 31 December 9999. Giovanni Farina was a lifer. This is a journey into the existence of a survivor. Giovanni Farina survived the life sentence to which he was sentenced. Giovanni Farina has survived his legend, that of the impregnable bandit Farina, indicated as the […]
Dr Evgen Bavčar has a special ritual.For over forty years, he has been recording the nightingale singing on May nights in his hometown of Lokavec near Ajdovščina.Under the nocturnal cloak, in duet and in collaboration with the nightingale, the story from Lokavec unfolds into a narrative of the nightingales’ blinding so they shall sing in […]
A documentary produced within the context of YASS! mentorship propgram.Mentor: Yasmina Hamlawi A creative audio documentary exploring questions of voice and listening from scientific, artistic, philosophical and political perspectives. Who – and what – do we deem capable of having a voice, and worthy of being listened to? And how does the way we listen […]
Premio Lucia 2024 Winner : Projects How many stories can a musical instrument tell? Theremin, a secret history is a headlong rush of sound and words, a narrative journey to discover the dawn and sunset of one of the first electronic instruments. It is an unusual choral fresco that mixes the adventures of a Russian […]
A piece produced within the context of YASS! mentorship programMentor: Cristal DuhaimeWORLD PREMIERE When you watch a particle it acts like a particle. But when you look away, it does a whole other thing.This story explores modes of experiencing the strange quantum basis of an everyday life. It journeys through split déja-vu, Schrödinger’s hamster and […]
This documentary tells the story of a former asylum and its place: a small town nestled in the hills of southern Italy, called Girifalco. Founded in 1881, the psychiatric hospital and townspeople long progressed in symbiosis.With the initiation of “open doors” practices as soon as the early 1900s, patients deemed less serious went freely on […]
A Fantasy, A Lie is the story of Jaione, a Basque woman who joined the Basque separatist movement ETA at the age of 18 but ended up in prison in Spain 40 years later. This audio documentary is not about guilt or innocence. No, this story is about why an irreversible decision was made and […]
In the 1950s, a New York radio station created La grande famiglia – The big family, a programme for Italian-Americans sponsored by a tomato company.The mechanism is simple, but ingenious: in a world without telephones, anyone, in exchange for ten labels as proof of purchase, can have the opportunity to hear the voices of relatives […]