In Italy, official history states that the country unification in 1861 was a victorious revolution in the name of progress and civilization. "They still burn" stands on the fringe of this narrative; rooted in a popular, underground memory, the film questions the country's unification as a form of colonization, still in progress, of Southern Italy.

Essi bruciano ancora

A hundred years of images researched and found,  Fragments of film, family reels, pixels.  A martyr saint, a warrior.  Saint Efisio, an icon who moves the people.  A holiday, a rite which repeats outside of time and brings with it the masks of dominations past and present, of an island; Sardinia.  What escapes? What remains?  Question and answer is the foundation of editing  And renews the past in another past.  In this encounter of deferred glances, the holy day is renewed again in memory and in dream, far from known places.