Canone effimero
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025
May 29 - June 5, 2025
In their latest documentary, which received a Special Mention from the Documentary Award jury at the 2024 Berlinale, the De Serio brothers pay tribute to the local musical customs of Italy’s disparate regions, movingly capturing these traditions—and the figures who seek to preserve them—at risk of fading away.
In their latest documentary, which received a Special Mention from the Documentary Award jury at the 2024 Berlinale, the De Serio brothers (Una Promessa, Open Roads 2021) pay tribute to the local musical customs of Italy’s disparate regions, capturing these traditions at risk of fading away. Divided into 11 sections, Canone effimero alternates between loving, languorous portraits of choir members, scholars of medieval musical theories, and specialists in arcane, mostly forgotten historical instruments, and the landscapes in which these figures undertake their cultural homage. Filming with a visual ingenuity that forms a mesmerizing counterpoint to the pleasures of listening to strange, beautiful music and of hearing experts speak intelligently about it, the De Serios honor their subjects with this meticulously, passionately assembled study of cultural traditions on the brink of vanishing.
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