Anna Brescianini

Carrara marble is universally celebrated through the lens of the sublime, yet its perfect sculptures and seemingly snow-capped peaks conceal a violent reality of open wounds. Inverting this romanticized perspective, this film essay approaches the Apuan Alps as a "sacrifice zone", an exhausted landscape where centuries of relentless extraction have compressed geological time into economic profit.

In this region, history and commerce are inextricably bound to the systematic emptying and reshaping of the mountains. What emerges is a terrain marked by absence, where marble is not merely quarried stone, but a missing body and an eroded archive of exploitation. Utilizing an experimental documentary approach, the project lingers within the unresolved fractures of image and sound, challenging the viewer to confront an uncomfortable truth: within this extractive system, what we perceive as beauty or progress is merely the residue of destruction.