Waves of conviviality
Dreams of tangible utopia, old farms and new shelters, fields and woods, international daily activism spread by a rebel self constructed radio station.
Thanks to: Radio Zinzine
Recorded in: Grange Neuve, Longo Maï
LONG STORY SHORT
On the slopes of the Zinzine hill, a few kilometers from the snow-capped Mount Ventoso in upper Provence, among clay hills of leafless oaks, flocks of sheep and tiny villages of pale stone, radioLina stops for a third stop, drawn by the magnetic waves of the Zinzine Radio antenna, the rebellious voice of the interdependent communities of Longo Maï.
Burning the Terrible Zenerù puppet, was probably useful and it already feels like spring, as we follow Johann, our patient guide, showing us communal rooms, fields, workshops, construction sites, beehives and more, filled with busy people, or as we listen to Nick and Alex dreaming up new glimpses of the world, seated at a large dark wooden table, tasting whity buttered pasta and merlot, French, and Italian roundish cow cheese, carried from the Alps under microphones and bells.
The echo of what Ivan Ilich wrote in ‘73*, a year before the founding of the Grange Neuve cooperative, from where we record, came to us almost live, in the hopeful voice of Lucia, longomaian wool weaver: fight our standardized dreams, fight our industrialized imagination, fight our progammed imagination!