Unfinished Italy

A film by Benoit Felici,
Friday December 9th 2011
What do you think of as Italian architecture? Florence, Rome and Venice? Roman might and Renaissance beauty?

Or do you think of the 600 unfinished municipal buildings across Italy that lie
in wait for the construction teams to return?

Unfinished Italy is their story. It is Italy, home of ruins. It is Italy’s most prominent post-war architectural style. It is buildings that are in limbo between perfection and nothingness, forgotten, ruins before they were ever used, now an integral part of the Italian landscape.

Stadiums without audiences, hospitals without patients, theatres that after 50 years have not yet seen their premiere. This is Unfinished Italy.