Una splendida favella

With Flavio Santi, professor at the University of Insubria, and William Cisilino, ARLeF’s director

An ARLeF – Regional agency for the friulian language production

Just over 80 minutes to tell a thousand years of history of the Friulian language. This is the challenge Flavio Santi and William Cisilino accepted to answer questions such as: Who shaped the most eastern of the Ladin languages? Which women and which men, starting from the Middle Ages, have chosen and claimed the use of marilenghe to make art? But above all: Why is Friulian a language? During the performance, Santi and Cisilino retraced the facts that led to the birth of Friulian and its affirmation as a language, outlining an unprecedented portrait of the Friulian language, as a synthesis of the cultures that have crossed Friuli over the centuries.

Recorded on May 11, 2024, at the Torre di Santa Maria in Udine, during the Vicino/Lontano Festival

Credits

Video made by: Quasar Corporate
Executive producers: Giorgio Milocco and Andrea Badin
Camera operators: Jonathan Feruglio, Fabrizio Manias and Federico Valente
Editing: Sara Caruzzi
Color correction and titles: Filippo Di Primio

Graphics: Anthes
Soundtrack: “Pantan” by Glauco Venier. From the album “L’insium”. 2001
Optimization: Mattia Cantarutti – ARLeF

Thanks to: Confindustria Udine and Paola Colombo, Fabio Cumini, Adriana Cruciatti, Sabina Pituello, Elena Zanussi