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Once a year, at the blue moon-the third of four full moons in a season-, the townsfolk assembled for this poignant ritual.

Plates were filled with culinary delights that once brought joy to the departed—a symphony of flavors and scents that served as a bridge between the tangible and the ethereal. The stories flowed freely, weaving a tapestry of shared experiences and immortalizing the essence of those who had left this world. It is a night of communion—a sacred space where grief mingled with gratitude, and where love for the departed was palpable in every dish shared and every memory recounted.

As the night waned and the first hues of dawn whispered at the horizon, the families bid their farewells. Candles were gently extinguished, and the village returned to its slumber, cradling the whispers and laughter within the embrace of its silent streets until the following year.

The Midnight Supper for the Departed was more than a mere ritual; it was a testament to the enduring bonds of love that transcended the realms of the living and the departed. It was a gentle reminder that the spirit of those who had passed on remained alive in the cherished memories and traditions of those who continued to honor them.

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Amorphous: a journey through non-time, a journey through non-place

The village of Amorphous with a huge history behind it is now in an era of abandonment and decline, a result inextricably linked to capitalism and globalisation. The values represented by the village, with its historical ancestors who were half descendants of saints and the rest guerrilla communists who defected, no longer resonate in the modern world. 
The few jobs on offer are mostly manual - fishermen, farmers - or small businesses - hawkers, shoemakers. Over the last few decades, young people have been leaving the village, but despite its decline, there has been a slow but visible return of people to it. 
Simple people who want to live their lives in a simple way and close to nature, people who decide to start a family far away from the modern way of life choose to live in Amorphus not just as a place but as a way of life. It's kind of like a realistic utopia and the village despite its decline somehow maintains a certain culture. The historical-social context has as its basic principles the harmony with nature and the vigilance of being , in every form, both anthropomorphic and divine or biocentric. 
Amorphus, forgotten by most people now, seems to be stopped in a timeless and placelessness reality, where the imaginary of society was created by the fusion of these two different forms of culture: the tradition of the saints and the communist tradition.  Perhaps the price of decadence is high, but it still inspires people to live there.

Beauty is the exit of the one who has objectified himself in the realm of purposes and now abandons it."

Adorno. W. Theodor

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