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Enchanting Stories - The art of storytelling archaeology

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Enchanting Stories - The art of storytelling archaeology

Educational documentaries on archaeology offer a sensitive yet concrete look at the past, useful to scholars and the general public alike. My approach aims to tell the big picture of lost civilizations, focusing on specific sites to understand their material aspects. Artifacts collected from the earth become silent witnesses to the everyday stories of those who created, used, lost or destroyed them, sometimes in faraway places.

Gathering the clues and giving them a voice again are the archaeologists, who show their work in the field, revealing the value of their own dedication to finding and preserving the past. Their intimate and very personal contact with the millennia-old artifacts creates a continuity of exchanging glances across time with those who then guarded them on that same land. “Death is but the victory of time. To artificially fix the carnal appearances of being is to wrest it from the flow of duration: to lead it back to life” (Bazin, 1990).

The narrator's words do not flood the scene, but let the people and objects speak, unobtrusively explaining what they cannot show, sometimes with the help of archival images or simple reconstructions, placing historical texts and myths alongside the concrete subject matter.

The attempt to grasp and preserve life in its instantaneous fragility, handing down History, unites archaeological research with the camera, which stands beside it with curiosity and respect, ready to grasp the wonder and humanity, immortalized in the filmic image, introducing the viewer on tiptoe into this delicate human relationship.

Through storytelling, punctuated by the dialogue between gazes across time, archaeological documentaries allow us to create a bridge between past and present that enriches our understanding of human history, which has been forgotten for centuries, giving humanity a firmer foundation on which to build its own certainties.

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