NIGHT PLOTTERS
3’ 39’’, color, 360 video, HD, 2024
Directed by Sara Bonaventura
Sound by Saba Saba
Label: Maple Death Records
Performer: Laura Pante

Official video for SabaSaba Night Plotters, from Unknown City on Maple Death Records.
“L’abbandono è crollo disarticolazione” (Abandonment is collapse disarticulation) A. Zanzotto, Conglomerati, Fu Marghera(?)
This video is a poetic attempt to reclaim a collapsed landscape through generative dance,
a dissemination process here performed by a female body continuously seeking new reconfigurations,
embedding the knot nature-culture.
The main location at the periphery of Venice, a sort of subtext of the postmodern social
construction of nature, is a public park born in the 70s, a crosshatch between the city and the non-city,
where I grew up in the 80s, shot with 360 camera. On top of this, different landscape views of anthropogenic
and environmental disturbance are superimposed: artificially consolidated salt marsh in the Northern
lagoon filmed in spring, extremely arid mudflat of intertidal areas in summer, ending with a dramatic
paradigm of human extractive industry and quintessential classic of irreversibly altered landscape of
North-East Italy, Porto Marghera in winter by night, with its petchems units.
Marghera = Mar ghe g’era (dialect for mar c’era = the sea, there was) but the sea is no more, we have sand and cement instead.

Featured on
Dance Camera Istanbul, Istanbul (TR)
Zanzara Arte Contemporanea, Selezione video – Ex Refettorio, Ferrara (IT)
Videoart yearbook, Annuario della videoarte italiana, DAMS, Bologna (IT)
RUMORE magazine, video premiere, 2024

Special thx to the performer Laura Pante and to the camera operator Marco Morbiato.