Matteo Perini
Matteo Perini
Long-term photographic projects. The complete works are available as full-length articles.
Today's technology extracts marble twice as fast, with ecological and economic consequences.
A marketing idea gave this town a new name: it is now the paradise of "Shangri-La".
Ancient Christian and voodoo rituals unfold side by side.
They risk their lives to harvest a rare shellfish that is slowly disappearing.
Directed by Matteo Perini and Simone Stefanelli · Italy, 2015 · 52 minutes
For thousands of years the mysterious, cryptic voodoo faith has played a central role among the peoples of West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea. In 2015 two reporters travelled to Ouidah for the third time, trying to find what lies behind religious mysteries that at first sight seem impenetrable — and found not only the workings of the voodoo faith, but a weave of religions that appear distant and irreconcilable.
Directed by Stefania Amanti and Matteo Perini · Italy, August 2014
Orchestra Spartiti per Scutari, a traditional Albanian music ensemble made up almost entirely of Italian musicians, tours the Balkans for the first time, on a long bus journey through Kosovo and Albania. Every town and every concert becomes an occasion for meeting and exchange between the cultures of different peoples.
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