Last summer
I was working as a still photographer for Diaz-Don’t clean up this blood, a
movie about the raid the police did in the Diaz school during the 2002 G8 in
Genoa. Most of it was filmed in Romania,
Bucharest. The set was a reconstruction
of via Cesare Battisti in Genoa, where the Diaz school was located, and it was
about 600m long by 300m wide. I was on one corner of it, walking backward towards the long side and trying to capture
the most of the set in my photographs. I was stopped by the wooden wall behind
me which delimitated the set. Suddenly I heard
some movement behind the wall, just next to me. There was a long thin fissure
filled with small eyes, eight of them, all looking at me. As soon as I pointed the camera toward them
they all disappeared to pop up again after a few seconds. We started this kind
of game where I would rise my camera and they would hide. All of a sudden they all
decided to stick in the frame, the game was over and they were willing to be
photographed. I found out later that those were the eyes of a Romani family
living next to the set, they were watching all the actions from behind this
wall and nobody had noticed them for all the time. Those were also the eyes of
the first spectators of the movie.
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