Venice is drowning and we're holding the bucket.
Yannick Bellon's documentary paints a portrait of a city torn between the problem of unsanitary housing, pollution corroding walls and statues, and the recurring and increasing floods—all consequences of human activity. Faced with job shortages and rampant speculation, the overarching question arises of how industries can coexist with the city of Venice. Allowing them to develop risks destroying it; driving them out risks turning it into a museum, causing its inhabitants, and thus its soul, to leave.
Cinematography
Water as character—menacing, mournful, magnificent.
Direction
Bellon lets Venice speak; no narrator needed.
Director
Yannick Bellon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This predates the 1980s 'Save Venice' celebrity obsession, capturing pre-tourism-cynicism urgency.
Bellon smuggled cameras into restricted industrial zones; some footage was later seized by Italian authorities.
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