42 – Storie da un edificio mondo

Francesca Cogni e Donatello De Mattia | 2009 | Italia/Francia | 18’

A woman cooking, a man waiting, a hairdresser in a box room, a small dark figure in a roof, a crowded society event; at the same time a palace that reveals itself, shapes up, and tells itself. 42 is the diary of a palace of Milan which is famous for commentaries but its intimacy, its daily rhythms, its being city and home, normality and exception are unknown. It is a catalyzer of dreams as well as a producer of nightmares. Almost anything happens is the 42; small portraits of a everyday life in which reality and common imaginary mix until being indivisible. Reality and legend mix, the Story and the stories mix: in its corridors and in the stairs you can find Vallanzasca, a Tunisian girl, terrorists, an Indian family, a contemporary art gallery, a workman of the 50s, a publisher, a drug seller, the artist Maurizio Catterlan…