Venice By FKY

For a complete change of pace this Sunday, I feature a wonderful short movie on Venice produced by FKY, presumably a French videographer from Nantes.What hooked me to watch this movie was the opening song by Charles Aznavour "Que C'est Triste Venise"...a romantic but sad song whose lyrics start:Que c'est triste Venise,Au temps des amours mortes,Que c'est triste Venise,Quand on ne s'aime plus.Charles Aznavour is is an Armenian singer, songwriter, actor and a public activist. He's one of France's most popular and enduring singers, is known for a gravelly voice and is also one of the best-known singers in the world.The camera used in the movie is the Canon 5D Mark II with Canon 50mm f/1.4, 100mm f/2.8L - 24-105mm f/4L  and the 70-300mm f4-5.6L lenses with a Rode Videomic ...

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Ruben Salvadori: Tales Of A Ritual

Warning: Some Brief Scenes Are Graphic. A village in the Southern Italian region of the Calabria region is the backdrop for an ancient ritual that is claimed to represent a peoples identity; an identity that struggles to keep its tradition unaltered through time. "Tradition is the pump that pushes the blood of identity". During the Holy Week prior the Easter celebrations, the village experiences an intense spiritual and practical preparation for a weekend ritual. The statue of the Virgin Mary is taken out from its shrine to take part in the ritual of Vattienti. These are flagellants who beat their legs with two pieces of cork, one of which has 13 fragments of glass in it,  and represent the sufferings of Jesus, and who must endure the pain of religious mortification...

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