© 2019 | UHD 32 min | TV-Documentary
Author & Director:
Hansjürgen Schmölzer
Camera: Gerfried Guggi
Editing: Uwe Seifner
Production: BSX-Schmölzer GmbH
Commisioned by ORF
The world’s oldest continuously inhabited settlement becomes a hotspot for the Open Data movement.
Matera in southern Italy was the European Capital of Culture in 2019. The city is the oldest permanently inhabited place in the world known to us. The Sassi, the cave dwellings of Matera, have been inhabited for 9,000 years and have made it a popular filming location for major international productions.
While poverty, decay, youth outmigration and organized crime characterize southern Italy, a different development is taking place in Matera.
The film follows a group of young creatives who have deliberately returned to Matera to set up the co-living collective “Casa Netural”. With their projects, they show the possibilities for shaping society in rural regions on the periphery of Europe in the age of the Internet.
In the wake of the Capital of Culture project, they aim to transform Matera into a hotspot for the Open Data movement in order to put a halt to corruption and organized crime through maximum transparency.
They find unexpected support for their efforts.