'A Corte' is an aural reflection on the experience of space and sound and how the natural sound of a place can interact in particular with the architectural space that occupies it. Human intervention modifies nature and occupies it through architecture, remodeling spaces and (re)settling structures in the form of a pulsating living organism, ecosystem, forest. A visual, photographic, and aural investigation of a recent mountain landscape change, of what it could have been, should have been but was not—the dreams of a visionary entrepreneur and the visions of brilliant architects. Enrico Mattei and the first idea of ​​social welfare were conceived and implemented in post-war Italy. The desire to provide a home for Eni employees with the construction of innovative and modern residential villages at the company's production sites. Thus, at the turn of the 50s and 60s, Metanopoli was born, an urban center on the outskirts of Milan that will host the Eni headquarters, homes, and services for employees such as parks and ultra-modern sports equipment, and the ANIC Villages of Ravenna, Gela, and Pisticci

The house conceived a primary need of the individual and an element of "loyalty" of the employee. And with this in mind, Mattei started one of the most exciting and innovative, the mountain holiday village of Corte di Cadore. Although incomplete and unfinished, it remains one of the best Italian examples of architecture and urban planning integrated into the land. The construction was entrusted to the architect Edoardo Gellner, who carried out the work by settling it on the then barren, bare, and stony slopes of Monte Antelao. The idea that all employees could enjoy a few weeks of vacation a year to live, LIVING, in a place specially designed with a social and ethical purpose, led to the creation of the VILLAGE. The innovative and modern houses (the VILLAS), the COLOGNE (symbolic place of Gellner'sGellner's architecture and extended for about 30,000 square meters), the CAMPING with fixed wooden tents but also many other buildings and services and the CHURCH "Nostra Signora del Cadore," an architectural jewel designed by Gellner and Carlo Scarpa, are the tangible and concrete signs of this vision. A dream that was interrupted and remained unfinished with the death of Mattei but turned out to be a shining example of dialogue between nature and architecture, with the latter enhancing the former.

Over time and due to neglect and abandonment, the forest returns to dominate, incorporating, literally devouring the architectural structures. A selection of extracts, part of a much broader photographic and sound research and documentation work carried out around the architecture of the former Eni Mountain Village of Corte di Cadore (BL) conducted over the last 15 years.