INTHEMOUNTAINS. 2018. 00:26:08
Mountains look so beautiful that once you start looking at them you can’t stop. A glance lasts only a moment but it takes part of the whole metamorphosis.
INTHEMOUNTAINS ponders over the role of the artist and of the evolutionary dialogue with the mountain and its landscape; an essential role that welcomes the transformations of the contemporary mountain. Monte Pelmo is the starting point of the artist's research journey. It is the mountain which witnessed the climb of the first President of London Alpine Club John Ball and the birth of the alpinism in the Dolomites.
The structure of the documentary has been progressively built through the vocal contributions of an on-air radio program where Orbi invited guests in conversations about the landscape and the mountain. The title of the project comes from “What the Thunder Said” the fifth section of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, written in 1922. In his work, Orbi has often related, through different media, with the concept of the mountain as both a natural and cultural “presence.”
