True Crime that reconstructs the facts through the visual languages of the graphic novel and the ongoing illustration, “Dark Lines – pencil crimes”Docuserie directed by Giacomo Talamini with the actress Valentina Romani as a narrator – available exclusively On Raiplay with the first four episodes (the other four on the platform from Thursday) – It tells with innovative style some of the heinous crimes that shocked public opinion, analyzing the circumstances underlying the violent death of young women.
From Simonetta Cesaroni to Meredith Kercher, Chiara Poggi and Marta Russo, up to Serena Mollicone, Elisa Claps, Nada Cella and Melania Rea, we talk about highly dramatic events To reflect on the relationships of strength and power, trying to offer a more conscious look at female condition and gender -based violence.
Tito Faraci, author of the format with Giovanni Filippetto and Ivan Russo, also confirms this. Director of the “Feltrinelli Comics” series, the screenwriter, today in Messina (18.30) for a meeting promoted by Officina del Sole at the headquarters in via Giacomo Venezian, has highlighted the difficulty in approaching such a delicate subject. “We left the idea of the design that tells – he tells us -. The designed representation of crime scenes, identikit and processes, typical of journalism and investigation, offered us the opportunity to show the scenes as they have never been disclosed. The main difficulty was to find a compromise between the indispensable clarity that the comic could give and respect for the tragedies we went to tell ».
A scrupulous work, of great human and artistic responsibility also for the Messina designer Lelio Bonaccorso, author of the tables that accompany the narrative. «It was not easy to translate a series of strong images in a way usable for the spectators and at the same time respectful of the victims. But we succeeded, reaching scientificly to the fundamental elements, such as the clues and positions of the victims. My work was therefore interpreting these images giving journalistic and investigative fidelity ». “There were the materials deposited during the sentences concerning the entire context in which the crime had occurred – continues Bonaccorso – and there was a comparison on writing with Giovanni and Tito, who adapted the part to be drawn on the texts of John”.
A project consistent with the artistic commitment of Bonaccorso, involved by Faraci for his graphic Journalism worksas “salvation”, report of a rescue of migrants at sea, and “… at our house”, on the experience of the Riace of Mimmo Lucano, made for Feltrinelli with the journalist and writer from Trapani Marco Rizzo. “It was natural for me, like when I worked on” salvation ” – says Bonaccorso -, remain faithful to what I saw. In this case, however, the work was humanly more complex ».
The moving illustration of Bonaccorso’s designs was recreated in post-production, starting from some live drawing videos by the same artist. Made with the advice of the criminologist Valentina Marsella and the author Antonio Plecia, “Dark Lines” debuts in the days when the crime of Garlasco returned to the limelight, and a few months after the deaths of Sara Campanella and other victims of femicide. A topic, gender violence, which Bonaccorso has dealt with the itinerant exhibition “Violato” in the last eleven years.
The series is a Rai production of digital and transmedia content (director Marcello Ciannamea) and will be broadcast in the clear from 19 July on the second evening of Rai2.