Audio/Visual Experience
"Unbound” Act 1.1... is a visceral plunge into the churning vortex of past lives bleeding into present circumstance. It's a raw excavation of my Sicilian roots, ignited by untamed fem voices of love, torn from stability, or dominated and muted in some capacity. This film is a surrealistic abstract escape from oppressive forces, and a defiant roar against control, and eventually grows into a complex beautiful struggle to shatter the chains and reclaim oneself. It's not a simple narrative, it's a surreal, pulsating layered experience, and a reflective emotive journey.
Video Link is not released to the Public and will be for paid subscribers only. Not sure when I will be releasing this to be real.
One last thought for your contemplation… Sicily, my families homeland... it's a land where history is etched in blood, where the echoes of conquerors still whisper in the wind.
Sicily was taken over by many. List below - in order from oldest to new.
Phoenicians/Carthaginians: Initial roots From the Levant (modern Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine) and North Africa (modern Tunisia), established western Sicilian settlements, significant early influence.
Greeks: From various Greek city-states, developed powerful city-states (Syracuse, Agrigento), engaged in Greco-Punic Wars.
Romans: From Rome (modern Italy), became a Roman province after the Punic Wars, vital for grain production.
Vandals/Ostrogoths: Germanic tribes, from areas east of the Roman Empire, period of instability following the Western Roman Empire's fall.
Byzantines: From the Eastern Roman Empire (centered in Constantinople, modern Istanbul, Turkey), controlled Sicily, but faced increasing pressure from Muslim expansion.
Arabs/Muslims: From the Islamic Caliphate (originating in the Arabian Peninsula), 9th-century conquest, flourishing Arab culture and governance.
Normans: Descendants of Vikings, from Normandy (modern France), 11th-century conquest, established the Kingdom of Sicily, a powerful regional force.
Aragonese/Spanish: From Aragon and later Spain, under Spanish rule, part of a larger empire.
Austrians/Bourbons: From Austria and Spain, 18th and 19th-century shifts in power.
Italian Unification: From various Italian states, 1860, Garibaldi's expedition, incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy.
Allied Invasion: From the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, 1943, World War II, strategic Allied operation.
Sending love and peace.
Christina (aka RYAT)
www.ryat.live