- A socioplay about a poetry reading, between the docu-film Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001) and the "bricconaggio" Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018). The set is Valeria Moriconi Theater during the Women's Day in the margins of the show "La canzone della Nanda" by Giulio Casale directed by Gabriele Vacis.—Vanessa Rusci
- After the death of the americanist Fernanda Pivano Tito Schipa jr. informed Ottavio Rosati that the "Teatro Valeria Moriconi" in Jesi had scheduled for the Women's Day the concert "La Canzone della Nanda" by Giulio Casale, directed by Gabriele Vacis. After thirty years of close collaboration and love, the Rosati-Pivano bond was traumatically interrupted due to the Rosati's docufilm Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001) in which she had seen the revelation of a story that should have remained hidden. For this reason Rosati did everything to make the movie' presentation part of the Jesi event next to the Casale concert. And after a week of work he succeeded. At that point Ottavio's analyst Stefano Carta encouraged him to propose to Jesi theatre also a socioplay on the poetry in which (with the help of his two talking parrots Teto and Iside) Ottavio would give space and words to all the spectators who write poems without publishing them. This would help him get out of the PTSD caused by Pivano's betrayal. But it was not enough; the day of the event Rosati convinces the theatrical staff of Jesi, that his socioplay should in turn become a short film on the relationships between professional poets (Ginsberg, Corso, Ferlinghetti...) and naive poets. At this point the organizers handed over to him the keys of the theater saying that Ottavio was free to do everything he wanted. Brandom Gregory, his video operator, arrived from Rome by train just an hour before the event and the production started without a mycrophonist. The title of the short "Stars Above Stars Down" comes from a motto of Hermes Trismegistus a legendary figure of the Hellenistic age, revered as a Master of wisdom and considered the author of the Corpus Hermeticum: "What is above is like what is down and what is down is like what is above. Grab it and rejoice." Obviously Ottavio alludes to the fact that the important thing for an artist is not to admire the big Stars but to develop the light of his inner stars. The socioplay was strong and spontaneous and in the post production the sound problems were overcome by indicating on the frame the wrong levels of sound. Back in Rome with his parrots, Ottavio meets, on the bridge "Ponte Sisto" leading to Trastevere, Ami Buz, an urban shaman (called Bird Man) who with the thousand sounds that come out of his hands and instruments, makes the parrots dance. The mission is over . Ottavio is happy again with the image of his loved Pivano. A Fernanda above and a Fernanda below. Like the stars. Both true. Like the sound levels, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
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