V.H.P._VERY HAPPY PEOPLE!
a research about Well-Being and Happiness in
North-East Italy
(V.H.P.)
Very Happy People! is a video research project to
investigate the relation between Well-being and Happiness
in the rich italian Region known as "Nord Est".
The video, in form of a documentary, mixes interviews with
intellectuals and experts with a simbolic narration. Through sounds
and images, it draws a sort of “places of soul” talking
about the man living in this territory.
Interviews
with P.L. Sacco (economist), F. Vallerani
(geographer), G. Pasqualotto (philosopher) and Serge
Latouche (economist and philosopher).
Documentary
directed by progettozero+
DVD PAL, 16:9, English Subtitles, 41' + extra contents 80'
In collaboration with: Università di Padova (Master of Intercultural
Studies) and Italian Youth Policies Ministry.
2009, Italy
(excerpts from interviews)
SERGE
LATOUCHE (economist): “Some economists have tried to
measure happiness (which thing is some kind of paradox in Economics).
After carrying out a survey on the feeling of happiness, they have demonstrated
that beyond a specific point the growth of G.D.P. actually destroys
happiness. As my professor Ivan Illich used to say: “the rate
of growth in frustration is higher than that of production”.
FRANCESCO VALLERANI (geographer): "The well-being
of a country depends on the residential and existential satisfaction
of a territory's population. A geography that generates happiness is
a functional geography, a functional territory. If there is an enviromental
conflict, if there is a cityzens committee, it means that politics has
failed, it means that the territory is unable to give serenity to the
people. To solve this problem we must defeat individualism, which is
the anthropological new, not only of Veneto region's landscape, but
of the whole western landscape."
V.H.P.
TRAILER
SCHEDA
V.H.P
(ita)
RECENSIONE
di E. LORENZETTO (ita)
FESTIVAL
Territori_politiche
dal basso, Bassano d. Grappa (2009)
Il Veneto che Vogliamo (Vedere), Mestre (2009)
Sherwood Festival_La Zona, Padova (2010)
Lago Film Festival, Revine-Lago (2010)
Transition, Bastione Alicorno-Padova (2010)
Festival della Creatività, Firenze (2010)
Your favorite Things, Galleria Contemporaneo, Mestre (2010)
Eqofestival, Roma, (2011)
AKTO6FESTIVAL, Bitola-MACEDONIA, (2011)
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| prof.Serge
Latouche economist & philosopher |
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| prof.P.L.Sacco,
economist |
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"The
percentage of americans who define themselves “very
happy” is decreasing, although a great increase
of the GDP per capita."
VHP
Very Happy People 2003. pubblication
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