Both an activist and a documentarian, Valentina Pedicini also brings her background in anthropology to this impressively captured, claustrophobic nonfiction feature. Venturing beneath sea level, From the Depths profiles the lone woman at work in the last coal mine in Sardinia, Italy.
Cinematography
Handheld camerawork that makes you taste coal dust.
Direction
Pedicini's patient anthropological gaze never exploits.
Director
Valentina Pedicini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sardinia's coal mines once employed thousands; this film documents the literal end of an era.
Pedicini spent months underground before filming, earning trust that erases documentarian/subject boundaries.
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