LA PAZ DEL FUTURO
a film by Francesco Clerici & Luca Previtali
La Paz del Futuro tells the story of Janet Pavone, an Italian-American muralist who moved to Nicaragua to join the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s. An on the road documentary that becomes a reflection on art, politics, memory and the passage of time.
Produced by Andrea Randazzo, Fabio Saitto
Executive Producer Jon Barrenechea
Directed by Francesco Clerici & Luca Previtali
Subject and Treatment Francesco Clerici
Editor Luca Previtali
Director of Photography Francesco Clerici
Suund Mattia Pontremoli
Mix Audio Tommaso Barbaro
A production Point Nemo
Year: 2022
Time and Genre 80 minuti / Documentario
Language Spagnolo, Inglese
Commissioned by the Sandinista army, the mural "La Guerra es la Paz del Futuro" was started in 1989 by Janet Pavone, Daniel Hopewell and Cecilia Herrero and completed in 1990. It is located in the Quiabú military base in Estelí, which at the time served as as headquarters for the war against the American counter-revolution.
In 2015, the Sandinista army invited Janet Pavone and Daniel Hopewell to return to Estelí to restore the work, whose colors had meanwhile faded.
The surface of the wall had also partially collapsed and the ground had begun to cover the lower part of the wall. Janet Pavone, aged 80, accepted and in 2015 she went from Brighton to Estelí to “restore the memory” of what the mural celebrates and remembers: the Sandinista victory that took place 26 years earlier.In February 2018 Janet, accompanied by her son Jon, with whom she lived in Estelí, returned once again to Nicaragua to see the current state of the mural, painted together with other artists and young people from the FUNARTE association, which she founded to give children an education in art, painting and sharing.
On this journey he met the children of today's FUNARTE workshops and those of yesterday, who in turn became educators.While the Quiabù mural has been restored and others have been destroyed and others are disappearing along with some images of old VHS, Janet meets the gestures and gazes of herself as a young woman: a journey through time, exploring the memory and public art of an entire country, but also of a revolutionary woman.
