Alessandro’s father, Giuseppe Lucarini, grew up in the Italian countryside in the 1960s. During this same period, television brought opportunities and hope to the world of farmers, a world that was precarious and without prospects. Within a few years, the Italian countryside depopulated as farmers moved to cities in search of a better life. The limitations of a small horizon, and the fears from the stories told in the darkness in front of the fireplace, disappeared in the cold light of television. What if the fears haven't vanished but simply moved inside the TV screen? Are we sure that there is something beyond the horizon?

This video work combines archival television footage and personal family archive with the voice recordings and testimony of Giuseppe, who was born and lived between 1954 and 1974 in the Italian countryside before moving to the small town of Urbania (population: 6,829) in the Marche hills. The project explores these two contrasting worlds in its attempt to understand whether or not the promises made by television, to the farming world, were fulfilled.

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