Description

Infernòt tells the story of Italian folk music and the city where it found its centre: Turin.
At the heart of this centre is the FolkClub.
The texts by Jacopo Tomatis, Franco Lucà, Marco Bertozzi, Franco Rosso and Paolo Lucà contribute
to tracing events, indicating places, and recalling the names of folk music in Italy, including through historical memories,
some of which are unpublished and personal.
All of this contributes to creating a context in which Elia Romanelli’s film is set.
A documentary in which the history of Italian folk music is intertwined with the history of a place where
this genre and its authors have been meeting for more than thirty years.
The place is an underground and therefore dark room, which was a cellar and then an air-raid shelter, then a
cellar again and now a club. Here, on a small stage in Turin, a genre is defined and, by playing it,  is given a past and a present. Among the words of those who know its theory and roots, and the notes of those who have
the courage to bring ancient instruments and voices into a future yet to be discovered.

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