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WHO ARE WE?

We spend part of our professional life looking for the great pelagic predators of our sea: we have performed several research about them, monitored their movements and spent a considerable number of hours photographing them. We know how to do it. Living with these animals on a daily basis led us to know how to translate into a story what we saw and heard at sea. Over the time, we honed the techniques of storytelling. First of all, we are driven by our passion for the sea and our need to tale, in detail and with awareness, the mysterious underwater world close to our homes. To know more about us visit artescienza.org, menkab.it, and our social media.

The team: Samuele (the video maker) - Giulia (the oceanographer) - Biagio (the cetologist) - Carlo (the narrator) - Gabriele (the drone operator) - Nadia (the producer) - Martina (the ethologist) - Mattia (the reporter) - Elia (the skipper and the diver) - Alessandro (the biologist) - Maurizio (the captain and the designer).

WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO?

The project is called CLOSE to HOME and it’s a web series dedicated to our sea and the extraordinary animals that inhabit it. Lastly, the Covid emergence kept us to employ new forms of storytelling. In this framework, Close to Home is designed and realized for a general audience (always maintaining scientific reliability). The first five episodes were produced by Artescienza and the Menkab team, in collaboration with KYMA sea research.

The first episodes are visible here

Each episode is an answer to a question; the objective is to raise awareness on how extraordinary and "close to home" Nature is. Often, we look at our landscapes – where we were born or where we are living – without realizing how rich and engaging it is. If only we looked with amazement and curiosity our daily life perhaps, we may live a more harmonious existence with the world that hosts us.

OUR MISSION? KNOWING THE ENVIRONMENT IN ORDER TO TAKE CARE OF IT

The sea in front of us is an amazing place that deserves to be explored: not far from our coasts and our cities live the largest animals of the planet. But, it is a rich but fragile entity.

Any action or behavior aimed to its protection must go first through the knowledge. Thus, the name of this project reminds us how much wonder is close to our homes and to the places we live in every day. The Mediterranean itself represents an opportunity to strengthen new actions to know and promote the territory, rediscovering the historical and environmental heritage of our coasts.

WHAT DO WE ASK?

We're writing the next 3 episodes. We are looking for some budget to cover the costs of production and editing. We ask you to support this project and our passion, and so offering us the opportunity to share our experiences with you. The project will not only allow us to show this extraordinary and nearby world, but also to carry forward the projects of monitoring and research of the marine biodiversity and the protection of the environment around us.

Only if you feel part of Nature you can take care of it