Synopsis
Habitat is a film comprised of personal accounts of life after the Aquila earthquake from the director Dante Emiliano and his friends, dealing with with “non places”, places without identity, far from the town as well as from history and place-specific culture. It follows the story of three men who lived in the same tent and stayed in L’Aquila. One, Alessio, first becomes a squatter, then a real estate agent; Paolo, who made a living renting his properties in the very centre of the town, becomes a painter. The third tentmate is Emiliano, the director of this movie. He makes this documentary about life in L’Aquila and the alienating reality of the C.A.S.E. settlements, the houses built by the Berlusconi Government after the earthquake. Habitat explores the relationship between personal conditions and a collective history, between evolving common spaces and changes in private life.