Il Gazzettino – 18 October 2020


Venezia Anno Zero in 13 minutes

In a report by Andrea Morucchio, the city empty and silent during the lockdown: a wordless video accompanied by the driving music of Claudio Rocchetti. “Despite how dramatic those days were, they gave us something unrepeatable”
Fifty years ago, his father, Lorenzo Morucchio, had taken a black-and-white photograph that has gone down in the history of Venice: two carabinieri in full dress uniform, seen from behind, crossing a Piazza San Marco covered in snow, as the wind ruffles the cape of their uniform.

by Vittorio Pierobon

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