Silence is a gift - Rione Sanità (Naples), Santa Lucia (Cosenza), Torre del
Greco. There are places in southern Italy that bear the scars of
incurable wounds on the walls and in the flesh of their inhabitants. In these
wounds lie the historical memory and the true face of the people. They
are called Alfonso, Elena, Marco, Stefania, to name a few.
Some come from the same neighborhoods and know each other, others don't. But they
have one thing in common: they all met Ciro Battiloro, who taught them
followed in the privacy of their home, with their camera and with their heart.
He depicted their daily lives by taking part in them. Never an intruder, Ciro Battiloro
is a friend, a brother, a confidant. He is not so much interested in the
marginality than to extraordinary vitality. It has seen the birth of new
lives, children becoming teenagers, then parents in turn. He also had to
say goodbye. Silence is a Gift is about love and loneliness, life and
death, pain and joy, but above all intimacy and resistance.
