Title: La quarantena di Maya
Genre: Documentary Genre: Documentary
Duration: 01:06:00
Directed by: Nina Baratta
Cast Maya Aragona, Carlo Aragona, Nina Baratta
Music by: Carlo Siliotto, Julien Allioux, Esther Garcia
Edit by: Carlo Aragona
Producers: Carlo Aragona, Nina Baratta, Valeria Anci, Federica Alderighi, Maria Fares, Roberto Baratta
Puductions: Cleverage, Tadàn Productions, Lanterna Magica
Distribution: OpenDDB
Maya is a little girl who experienced too much in her 2 and half years. These experiences were life-changing and helped her to live on: the harsh cough, her relationships with friends, the quarrels, and hugs, gaining independence from mom and dad and spending the first evenings out with the grandparents.
But all of a sudden, everything changes and she finds herself house-bound for no reason, she hears for the first time the word Virus and although she does not like the sound that this word makes, she accepts this new social condition without many whims.
The days pass quickly, waking up, having breakfast, playing colorful games with mom and cooking lunch together (wow!), then resting with dad, but it seems that this routine has become less and less pleasant. Maya often gets nervous "I understand the virus, but why can’t I get out? The sun is shining, I want to take a walk!”
So, the house becomes a space for exploration, play and growth.
They reinvent the use and arrangement of some furniture, create new private corners like a small garden. From the balcony you can hear and see many situations that you never imagined, some even funny and 'thank you for the applause!'. Maya also uses puppets friends in video calls, the rooftop becomes a territory to discover and live, the highest observation point, where you can see pirates, fairies and spaceships or other strange humans.
The clothes laid out, of neorealist memory, are the magic forest where Maya can hide, Mom and Dad are always present, they play and smile but sometimes they are also sad and worried. Dad works and talks a lot on the computer, when he finishes his calls, he is a bit alone. "Maybe he does it because he wants to be with his mother," Maya thinks, looking at him.
The more time passes the more the external situation seems unsolvable. The house becomes the fourth protagonist of the story.
Mom, Dad and Maya are tired, this lack of contact with the real world is alienating, exhausting, frustrating; plus, the uncertainty of a world in crisis that is changing without control, what will I do? I must cope with it and cling to the most powerful force that does not need external spaces, relationships, permissions, controls or money... Fantasy.
To see the film: https://www.openddb.it/film/la-quarantena-di-maya/