Adriano Zanni

Adriano Zanni is well known here at Boring Machines. Our collaboration started in 2008 with the album "Piallassa (red desert chronicles)", an album inspired by a simple but meaningful coincidence. In 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni shot his first color film "Il Deserto Rosso" (Leone d'Oro at Venice Film Festival) inside and around the huge assembly of petro-chemical factories in the outskirts of Ravenna, known at that time as ANIC.  Adriano Zanni was born in 1964 in Ravenna. 

In the last 25 years he has lived, worked, walked those same places, documenting visually and sonically the cumbersome presence of those seemingly alien structures which surround the city and border with the Adriatic Sea. Huge pipes, vapours, concrete and steel, ships carving through the land to feed the voracious plant. "Sequenze di Fabbrica" is an observation from inside of all this. 

No humans appear in this pictures, as if the plant is an entity in itself, a testimony of the efforts of its creators.