One Thousand and One Nights, The World.By Valeria Petrini and Gabriele Lorenzi

Summary

02. The project

03. Countries and means of transport

04. Participants

05. Video structure

06. Technical Equipment

07. Travelling equipment

08. Photos

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One Thousand and One Nights, The World.

The project

Travelling means accepting diversity and being able to put yourself back into question. All along the jour-ney, we encounter cultures different from ours which lead us to shaking up our points of reference and our prejudices. The discovery of new countries implies respecting and adapting to the population, leaving your own print.

Each culture has a popular history, a legendary tale transmitted from one generation to another. This heritage transmitted by the eldest becomes less common and leads to a loss of the popular culture, except in small communities where identity and roots are preserved. They are wrapped in a mystery halo made of myths and beliefs. Nowadays, more than ever, manhood needs points of reference. Man runs too much and meditates little, he plans ahead loosing what he became thanks to his past. Aware that popular tradition is not the expression of an only country, men must contribute to the rediscovery and the preservation of their ancestors’’ popular culture. This memory must be renewed, when possible, to give it to others in a correct measure. In this way, it would be possible to love a simpler past, but strengthened by a millenary tradition in which magic, reli-gion and fight for existence live side by side intensively. A past which today, in the light of our contemporary existence, seems very far.

Our project aims at gathering those stories, transmitted from a generation to another, across the villages we are going to cross. A series of videos will be put in place to tell the representative history of each culture. We will ask questions to the eldest in the villages we will stop. The narration of their stories will become an ob-jective for us: that of visually representing the key element of the tale, building it, reinterpreting it and giv-ing him shape through the material at our disposition. Branches, leaves, buckets, wheels, bricks, cords, rags.. Those we will find there will be recycled and reinterpreted to build a symbolic work illustrating the tale.

This construction will leave a trace of our passage and will also become a gift for the village, for the popula-tion who will have welcomed us.

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Countries

Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Philippines, Indonesia, New-Guinea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Tibet, Nepal, India, Canada (West coast), United States (West coast), Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Namibia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco.

Means of transports

- 2 planes ; - bus, train, coach, hitchhiking, boat, animals (camel/horse), hiking et trekking.

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Participants

Gabriele Lorenzi

Born in Pietrasanta on September 24th 1984. He lives in Ripa de Seravezza in the province of Lucca.

He starts Wing Chun (Kung Fu) martial art from the age of 6, and goes to accounting school which he finishes in 2006.In 2005 he works as master baker in the Nico-lini S.N.C. bakers in Pietrasanta. From 2007, he explores different jobs: tree climber for Rougé S.R.L., electrician, hydraulic, carpenter for Corbel-lini G. et Fglio, and moves between Tuscany et Lombardy.

He dedicates himself to arts and crafts in 2009. He is a blacksmith and a sculptor in Pietrasanta.At the same time, he continues practising Wing Chun which he starts teaching in 2010. To become an instructor he participates in various trainings in Spain and China with master Leung Ting.

He starts his own farm and works there for 4 years. In 2013 he opens the martial arts sport centre “Le Tre Gemme” (The Three Buds). That same year, graduates in Naturopathy.

In 2014 he moves to Paris, where he works as a waiter. His inherent interests to Kung Fu along the years took him beyond Spain and China to Turkey, Germany, India and Russia. Passionate about sport, he practices boxing for a year and a half, parachut-ing et climbing.

He dedicates himself as well in volunteering: for the Green Cross in Pietrasanta, he is a guide in the Mountain Community; a member of the G.A.V. (Gardes Ambiantes Volontaires - Civil Protection), AIDO (Association of volunteered organ giving) et AVIS (FIODS - interna¬tional federation of or-ganisation for blood giving).

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Valeria Petrini

Born in S.Giovanni Rotondo in 1985, she lives in Foggia until she is 19. AT the end of scientific high school she moves to Rome where she goes to Industrial Drawings Uni-versity which she finishes in 2008. She then goes to the IAUV University of Venice to graduate in Multimedia and Visual Communications in 2010. Keen on travelling and new experiences, in 2009 she spends 9 months in Nantes as an Erasmus stu-dent in the Beaux Arts Academy.

She lives in Paris since 2011, where she works as a video maker, camerawoman and film editor. Between 2011 and 2012 she makes videos for Red Bull, Canal Street, X-Games (in Tignes), SFR Tour, Trace TV and PlayStation. She is in charge of video editing for the embassy of Ivory Coast in Paris for the meeting of the presidents Alas-sane Ouattara and Nicolas Sarkozy.

Since 2013 she works as a head film editor for the TV channel “Ma Chaine Sport” and Léo Vision - Lagardère. At the same time, she is a camerawoman for conference and interviews at the Essec Business School (Cergy-95) University. She directs videos for events in Paris for the international company Generation Robots and Aldebaran. She also directs in music: the video clip “Painful Soul” for the DJ Marcelo Cura. In 2014 she creates the documentary project “Voy-age dans l’Art”: a series of videos on francophone artists who emigrated in non-occidental countries. The first episode is about the painter Dominique Tricoire, living in Phnom Penh in Cambodia.

She is interested by various topics such as the development of projects on visual communication, the making of videos for music and advertising, the study of exhibition space and what the visual impact in films and photography is. Along the years she practices various sorts such as athletics, swimming, basketball in junior teams for 5 years, skiing, spinning, running and kung fu. Her passion for travelling took her across Spain, Holland, Hungary, Germany, England, Sweden, Mexico, India and Cambodia.

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Video - Structure:

Length: 5-7min.

Introduction – The Journey: 1-2min

Illustration of the route to get to the chosen location. Maybe voice over. Encounter with the english speaking interpret. Encounter with the interviewee in the village.

The tale: 3-4min

The interviewee will tell the story. In parallel we have the building up of the element that will characterise the tale thanks to the help of people from the village, preparation and construction.

The totem: 1min

End of the construction. Interaction between the inhabitants and the construction. Night fall.

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Video equipment

- Canon 5D Mark III- Lense 50mm f 1 8 ii - Lense 16-35mm - Lense 24-105mm - 4 batteries LP-E6- Lamp 48 LED- 3 cards CF 64GB- 1 card SD 64GB- 1 card SD 32GB- Lapel Mike HF - Zoom microphone H4N - GoPro- GoPro devices - Video Monopode flow head - Video Monopode flow head - Laptop MacBook Pro - External DVD player/writer - 2 HD 1To- Battery solar panel

General equipment

- Tent 3 people - Insulation tent sheet - Duvet x2 - Outdoor Cords- Rucksack 80L et 120L - Clothes (jackets, jumpers, trousers, gloves etc. ) x2 - 4 seasons outdoor shoes x2 - Snow shoes- GPS- Torch x2 - Set of foldable tools - Kitchen tools- Knife - Food Tuperware boxes - Gaz ring - First Aid Kit

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01 - RUSSIA

02 - KAZAKHSTAN

03 - MONGOLIA

04 - CHINA

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05 - TIBET

06 - INDONESIA

07 - PHILIPPINES

08 – NEW-GUINEA

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09 - MALAYSIA

10 - VIETNAM

11 - LAOS

12 - BURMA

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13 - NEPAL

14 - INDIA

15 - CANADA (WEST)

16 - UNITED-STATES (WEST)

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17 - MEXICO

18 - CUBA

19 - GUATEMALA

20 - HONDURAS

21 - NICARAGUA

22 - PERU

23 - BOLIVIA

24 - BRAZIL

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25 - ARGENTINA

26 - CHILE

27 – SOUTH AFRICA

28 - NAMIBIA

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29 - ALGERIA

30 - MAROCCO

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