Emilio Banquini
2021
Video animation- 2,10 mins.
The fourth and last work is an animated video realized with the stop motion technique, and tells the long journey of a man through the seas at the beginning of the twentieth century, to escape war e find a new place to live.
The protagonist took the wrong boat, and instead of disembarking in New York, he finds himself in Buenos Aires. He doesn’t speak the language, so he’s wearing a tuxedo, because when he asked for a coat, that’s what they understood and sold him. He walks around town with a pebble in his pocket, which he uses to scratch the walls of the houses he passes by to find his way back.
A short black and white video telling one of the many stories I came across during my research for Tradizioni migranti (migrating traditions).