AustLit

'Adapted from the novel Baroque Memories, Christopher, an Australian student of the baroque, wanders and photographs the serpentine streets and elaborate facades of the city of Lecce, the Baroque capital of Southern Italy. He is drawn to the lost migrant Nostalgia, trying to reconnect with her city of origin. She is interested in an encounter with the photographer, but chance meetings in this maze of streets and piazzas are always difficult to arrange and are constantly frustrated by encounters with other fantastic figures who cross their paths: Grazioni, the inventor of the camera profonda; the bald Contessa von Economico; Philophilus the pedantic tour guide. Thoughts, destinies, casual meetings, erotic adventures are here determined by the physical and architectural properties of a place. Memories belong not to the past but shadow us into the future, the might have beens we cannot leave behind. In the crumbling city of the past, surfaces are dwelt upon-faces, time worn facades, clouds, tumbling seas, random sounds'. (ABC Classic FM website)