Bath
People
The story of one of the last public baths in Italy and the stories of the people who frequent it
Director
Stefania Bona
Francesca Scalisi
DOP
Stefania Bona
Editor
Francesca Scalisi
Marzia Mete
Music
Matteo Castellano
Produced by
Alessandro Carroli
Luigi Pepe
Laura D’Amore
Production
EIE film
Jump Cut
Don Quixote
Country
Italy
Running time
59′
Year
2015
A red brick building, with a large neon sign: ‘bathrooms’. They are the last municipal baths of Turin to provide this service to the citizens. It is a microcosm of stories that intersect over time of one of the most intimate aspects of everyone’s life: cleaning one’s body.
A place for meetings of social categories that were once very distinct, today united by the same need. A place of clashes where poverty sometimes takes the form of anger. A precious place, because where poverty manifests itself, sharing and listening also become the principles for a rebirth.