A dynamic filmmaker in his own right, Salvo Cuccia’s works range from film and video art to the experimentation of new forms of documentary. To date, the artist has realized over 60 works, including video art, installations, performances, documentaries and short films. Détour De Seta takes the viewer on a journey through the places that were both inspiration for and subjects of Vittorio De Seta’s films. In the words of the documentary’s filmmaker, Salvo Cuccia, “We visited Sicily once again, we retraced his steps, just as he did at the end of the seventies with La Sicilia Rivisitata (A Review of Sicily), a program in four episodes for RAI, when De Seta went back to the places he had shot during the ‘50s, unveiling the radical environmental and anthropological changes which had taken place in 25 years time.” The documentary travels not only to Sicily but also to Sardinia, the lands of the Pastori di Orgosolo (Shepherds at Orgosolo), Un Giorno in Barbagia (A Day in Barbagia), and Banditi a Orgosolo (The Bandits of Orgosolo), his first feature film. It goes to the suburbs of Rome described in Diario di un Maestro (A Teacher’s Diary) and through the oneiric dimension of Un Uomo a Metà (A Man in Halves), a significant work for De Seta, which experiments with photography from the point of view of psychoanalysis. The documentary is enriched by the sharp contributions of cinematographer Luciano Tovoli.  RH