La Macchina Fissa - Clark's Garden
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La Macchina Fissa - Clark's Garden

La Macchina Fissa - Clarki aed

2024
Entry 24-147 | Italy | 2024 | 73’ | Language: Italian | Subtitles: English Estonian
Original title: La Macchina Fissa

Macchina Fissa was the name given to the pumps used to drain swamp water and irrigate agricultural land in the Po Valley. South of Mantua, in Borgo Virgilio, just beyond the banks of the Mincio River, is a pumping station built in the mid-1800s. Once operated by steam engines, it’s been in disuse for a century and is now home to the cultural association Reading Retreats in Rural Italy and Clark Lawrence’s garden. The garden is inhabited predominantly by annual plants, which, at the end of their growth cycle in late autumn, flaunt their expired vitality and their beauty even when dried out. Winter is the time for Clark to harvest seeds for the next season and carry out a vigorous garden clean-up, assisted in his enterprise by the beloved goats that clear away the remaining vegetation and actively contribute to fertilizing the garden. In spring, the sowing of new plants begins. Most loved by Clark are American plants, or rather, those of the Native Americans: pumpkins, corn, and beans, which populate the garden, together with castor oil plants, amaranths, cosmos, evening primroses, ipomoeas, and hundreds of other varieties. The documentary follows Clark in his work and his philosophy of a garden as a place in which to “swim among the plants”. A garden designed “…by looking outside at what surrounds it: the landscape, plants, climate, and manmade constructions. Looking outside first and then thinking about what to do inside”.

Director Emilio Neri Tremolada  | Cinematography  Emilio Neri Tremolada | Editing  Felice Sechinà | Composer  Andrea Inchierchia | Producer  Emilio Neri Tremolada | Production Company  Ambiente Territorio Giardino | Original Title  La Macchina Fissa
La Macchina Fissa
La Macchina Fissa
La Macchina Fissa

2024
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A film that is emoving within its stillness and unpretentiousness. We witness the flow of time in a former marsh drainage pump station, the birth and decay of plants, and above all, the relationship between humans and the flora and fauna around them. Following calm activities and poetic commentary of the sympathetic protagonist Clark Lawrence, the film invites us to observe our surroundings, take time, appreciate imperfection and the benefits of "goat chocolate."
Director Emilio Neri Tremolada
Cinematography Emilio Neri Tremolada
Editing Felice Sechinà
Composer Andrea Inchierchia
Producer Emilio Neri Tremolada
Production Company Ambiente Territorio Giardino
Original Title La Macchina Fissa
Entry Number 24-147
Country of Production
Italy
Year of Production 2024
Running Time 73’
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English Estonian

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