“Reward appearance, in the dark the workmanship”. It is the banner that opened the demonstration of Against Davidorganized by the collective “We’re at the end credits” and by the union USB right in front of the entrances to the Cinecittà studioswhere the delivery of the Donatello’s David.
While on the red carpet the big names of the parade parade Italian cinemaa few meters away dozens of workers — including scenography, scene painters, writers e fitters — they gave birth to a silent flash mobposing with white masks on the face in front of a symbolic backdrop.
The meaning of masks
“The mask means theinvisibility of those who constitute the foundations of the Italian cinemabut also the blackmailability: today raising one’s head in this sector means risking one’s job”, he explained Vincenzo Lauricella (USB). “We ask rights e dignity for those who make this excellence possible, starting from renewal of a collective agreement stopped at 1999. It’s absurd to party and forget about those who work every day.”
The protest of the collective
The position of lasts Dario Indelicatoof the collective “We’re at the end credits”: “We were hoping for a sign of solidarity from those who are inside tonight, but we have understood that we have to fight for ourselves. There political conduct of the last two years has devastated the sector and now words are no longer enough for us, we demand facts.”
The contractual void
At his side, one post-production worker underlines the regulatory void: “We are thousands, but without one contractual platform at least they are not adequate 180 professionalisms. We are not renewed by 26 years old: we feel this way invisible“.
The political reactions
Al presidio representatives of the oppositions. For the PD, Matteo Orfini reiterated that the crisis was “produced by government measures“, while the vice president of M5S, Riccardo Ricciardiaccused the executive of considering the culture “not as a job, but as a field in which to work armchairs“.