The Empirical Effect
Rosa Barba
Agrigento, Italy, 1972
- Date:2010
- Edition/serial number:2/5 + 2 A.P.
- Media description:16 mm film transferred to video
- Duration:22 min.
- Colour:Colour
- Sound:Sound
- Category:Film
- Entry date:2021
- Register number:AD09043
The Empirical Effect is a film shot in 16mm, and transferred to video, with a 22-minute running time. Its point of departure is the area called the “red zone” — the immediate danger zone of the volcano — around Mount Vesuvius, nine kilometres from Naples. The zone is inhabited by the survivors of the last eruption of the volcano in 1944. The scenes were recorded in a disused observatory close to the crater and in the urban area with the staging of a trial evacuation.
