Caterina - Song of Fading Voices
( Caterina )

Francesco Corsi
2019 - 80 min - Vidéo Full HD - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - Italie,

An intimate portrait of Caterina Bueno, "the girl with the recorder". A tribute to a lifelong journey through traditional music, social changes and collective memories.
"Caterina" is a portrait of the main researcher and interpreter of traditional folk and peasant singing in Italy. Indeed, it was thanks to Caterina Bueno’s work (Fiesole, 1943 – Florence, 2007) that a wide repertoire of songs, orally transmitted up to the 20th century, was recovered and saved from oblivion. Since the earliest ‘60s, a life devoted to music and research took Caterina on national and international stages, making her a key figure in the cultural world of the time.
Her path crossed those of Italy’s major contemporary intellectuals, such as Dario Fo, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Umberto Eco, including artists such as Giovanna Marini, Fausto Amodei and Francesco De Gregori. "Caterina" represents an interesting journey through the social and cultural change occurring in Italy in the years of the economic boom and, more generally, reflects on the relationship of a country and a community with their own cultural and historical memory.