He listens to recordings of creatures that has them evolving through several stages of sophistication with language. Ten years later, the narrator of De Maria’s novel-a journalist-interviews one of the deceased's sister, a woman who “seemed to prefer one word above all the others: spirituality.” He meets with an “ear-witness” to the opening violence who heard several screams as the insomniacs traversed the city. In the violence of that psychosis, a number of people died or were killed. The place is Turin, Italy, where, in 1966, there was “a phenomenon of collective psychosis”: twenty days of mass insomnia, which had people wandering the city, zombie-like, at all hours. In his expression of existential-social terror, De Maria joins writers such as Lovecraft and Poe in crafting a peculiarly literary kind of horror. Giorgio De Maria's The Twenty Days of Turin features the worst of the worst-the abyss, the unnamable, the unknowable, all of which is a monstrosity as malevolent as can be. as italian original version with the original texts by Giorgio de Maria (1977).A good horror story requires monstrosity. Giorgio De Maria (1924 - 2009) was an Italian musician and author from Turin. Text fragments from the novel "Le venti giornate di Torino" by Giorgio De Maria, published in 1977. HD video, 16:9, color and black & white, with sound, 19:00 min.įilm editing in collaboration with Felix Hergert The film is a search, individually experienced by both the novel’s narrator, a self-declared detective, and the present-day artist.
The address became the starting point for city explorations and the novel became the artist’s guide to the city. By coincidence, the artist/filmmaker stayed at Corso Galilelo Ferraris, the same street in Turin where the Italian writer Giorgio De Maria once lived and published his horror/mystery novel „Le venti giornate di Torino“ (The Twenty Days of Turin, 1977). This video piece is an artist’s journey through Turin – its squares, streets, and monuments – with a mix of architecture, art, and literary references.
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