Il pittore della tenda Filming Locations

After his father is killed by the mafia, the Sicilian farmer Emanuele Modica takes up his paint brush as if it were a gun, under the full persuasion that no other means could better shake public conscience. Palermo, 1969. A strange large green tent fills Politeama square. Inside, many canvases express pain, rage, subjugation, a desire for justice and only a faint trace of hope. These are the works of the young farmer Emanuele Modica and represent his protest against the Mafia: his peaceful revenge against those who took his father's life. From this grief the artist was actually born, "the painter of the tent" who has since then been exhibiting his paintings on Italian squares, in the shadow of this tent which for 30 years has also been his home. Over the years Modica has obtained notable success, has been appreciated by artist critics and culture experts in the whole of the peninsul, and nowadays his provocative exhibitions are still remembered. Despite this he has continued to live behind the scenes, living his unusual artistic experience, one with a mission, to the full: fighting mafia through art, not in galleries but on streets. The painter of the tent is 80 today and lives far away from that same Sicily which didn't recognize the value of this art and messahge in the seventies. For the last 16 years his tent has been lying and getting dusty in his museum house in the province of Parma, thousands of km away from his homeland. Until one day he decides to travel back to where everything began, despite his age, with his last exibition: "The last Tent". His Sicilian comeback is a journey back in time during which the aged artist tells his own true and unique story.