Presented in Venice, the documentary "Agalma," which chronicles the life of Naples' MANN

During the 77th. Venice International Film Festival that has just ended, Doriana Monaco ’s documentary Agalma produced by Parallel 41 and Ladoc with the support of the Campania Region, MANN - National Archaeological Museum of Naples and Film Commission Regione Campania was presented.

Selected at the 17th edition of Venice Days, the film is set in the spaces of the National Archaeological Museum and observes what happens every day in the museum’s environments, dwelling on the daily routine of the workers, grappling with delicate interventions that require care and time, and constant maintenance. Works that have lived and vibrated for centuries are monitored like living bodies. All this happens as visitors arrive from all over the world, populating the many exhibition rooms under the seemingly impassive eye of the works that are protagonists and spectators in turn of the great human labor.

Everything brings out the museum as a great productive organism, revealing its nature as a material and intellectual construction site. Agalma (from the Greek “statue,” “image”) captures the beauty of the museum not only in the evidence of its enchanting treasures of classical art, but also in the intimate and invisible relationships that take place within it: the secret and ever new relationship that arises between visitors and the wonders of Greco-Roman antiquity; the passionate breathing of those who plan the life of the museum every day.

Pictured: a scene from the film

Presented in Venice, the documentary "Agalma," which chronicles the life of Naples' MANN

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