A video for the 40th anniversary of the Ustica massacre: free streaming for Favelli and Mattei's work

Throughout Saturday, June 27, 2020, anniversary number 40 of the Ustica massacre, the 2007 video art work Fine Giugno Giardino Saliceto by Flavio Favelli (Florence, 1967) and Luca Mattei (Naples, 1977) will be available for free streaming. The video was shot live at the Giardino Saliceto in Bologna, on the day when the wreckage of the DC-9 Itavia that was shot down in the skies over Ustica, causing 81 victims (and still to this day no light has been shed on what happened), made its final entry into the Museum for the Memory of Ustica in the Emilia capital (the plane that crashed into the sea had in fact departed from the Borgo Panigale airport, bound for Palermo).

“At the end of June 2007,” Flavio Favelli explains, “the last part of the plane was lowered by crane into the building of the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica in Bologna. After having flown in the highest of skies and known the deepest abysses, after having been recovered, set up in a military hangar near Rome and examined at length, after having traveled by truck to Bologna, for the last time the rear part of the DC-9 would see the sun and then become a monument and a work of art. We didn’t quite know the day and time of the last act and it all happened quickly one early and already very hot morning in late June. We tried to make the relationship between two anonymous figures, talking mysteriously and shooting at the balloon, cohere with the sounds of the crane, the noises of the work, while the big event remained in the background: the last moment of air of the white tail, with the Pompeian red arrow, of the DC-9 Mc Donnell Douglas aircraft initials I-TIGI of the Itavia company.”

To see the video you can click on this link.

Pictured: Flavio Favelli and Luca Mattei, late June Giardino Saliceto (2007, frame from video; duration 7’11").

A video for the 40th anniversary of the Ustica massacre: free streaming for Favelli and Mattei's work

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