Aside from the overwhelming beauty of the Amazon, what remains at the heart of this documentary is the double dream of Christopher Clarke, eco-warrior 'Fitzcarraldo' whose mission was to save the Xixuaù, the heart of Brazil threatened by climate change , imagining a Pink Floyd concert in the Amazon rainforest.
This is the story told by Edoardo Morabito's outpost, a documentary in 2023 in Venice at the Giornate degli Autori and from 26 February in theaters with Luce Cinecittà.
And that Christopher Clarke was a dreamer is demonstrated by his life: "He traveled the world - says Morabito -, he was a great intellectual, son of a children's book publisher, polyglot, he made money as an entrepreneur in Tuscany by restoring farmhouses that he sold to the English. Then he got bored and dedicated his entire life and earnings to the Amazon."
And this until his premature death in 2020, at 59 years old, from a tumor two years after the victim: in 2018, in fact, an area of approximately 630 thousand hectares of virgin forest in the Amazon was recognized as the Lower Rio Branco-Jauaperi Reserve : emblem of biodiversity, land protection and battle against climate change.
The documentary (produced by Dugong Films with Rai Cinema) tells of this last great dream of the activist, to relaunch global interest in the Amazon and thus put pressure on the Brazilian government to save a natural paradise that was showing the first signs of degradation.
The outpost of the title instead refers to another idealist dream of his.
Clark had in fact managed to create his very personal Outpost of Progress in the heart of the Amazon forest: a model of utopian society based on the perfect balance between nature and technology, managed and preserved by the inhabitants of the forest.
And this with the help of the Caboclos community, Brazilian mestizos who he made to become the guardians of the forest.
"While the world burns and we witness climate change as if it were the live streaming of the great spectacle that is the apocalypse, Chris feels invested with a mission: to save what remains of the Amazon. By any means possible. The outpost - says Morabito in his notes - it is certainly a film about the end of the world or at least about the destruction of nature at the hands of man. But it is above all a film about the importance of dreams to return to imagining possible futures... Why dream, as he would say Chris, it means acting in cosmic perspectives."
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