V.H.P.
Very Happy People
a video research on Well-Being and Happiness
(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.
Documentary
DVD PAL, 16:9, English Subtitles, 41' + extra contents 80'
2008-2009, Italy.
In collaboration with: Università di Padova (Master
of Intercultural Studies) and Italian Youth Policies Ministry.
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."
(excerpts
from interviews)
VIDEO TRAILER
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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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