The Magic Bucket

There is considerable and growing alarm in many quarters about the possible destructuve impact of ''screens'' on children. Research is recent and complex but, to sum up, the fear is that the extensive use of screens widespread in our society can result in a dramatic detachment from reality. That, particularly young kids whose minds and bodies are still growing, may loose the skills, abilities and desire needed to engage with the real world, outside them, If this were true, it would be quite tragic. Kids would be robbed of their most precious existential ability. The problem is tragic, existential, global and hard to photograph. ''The Magic Bucket'' tries to do it picturing a possible antidote. One of the simplest, most obvious antidotes, in fact, would be to encorage kids, push them to immerse themselves in reality. Here the sea is the symblol of that reality. Diving, fishing, contemplating the catch at nightfall before letting the creature free. The Magic Bucket. Children are perfectly capable to engage with reality, even with its dangers, limits, timings. And it is crucial they do, Now more than ever. The hope is that the sea and reality itself can teach them silent life lessons that the humans adults are growing more and more unable to onpass.