La tribù di San Besso. Cent’anni dopo sulle tracce di Robert Hertz. Video digitale, durata: 26’29”. Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche - Laboratorio “Granai della memoria”. Ricerca antropologica di Gianpaolo Fassino. Regia, riprese e montaggio di Luca Percivalle

[Machine translation] The video The tribe of San Besso documents the feast of San Besso, celebrated annually on August 10 at the homonymous sanctuary located on the high slopes of the Graie Alps, on the border between Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta. With this work, we wanted to retrace Robert Hertz's fields of ethnological investigation, exactly one hundred years after his groundwork (1912) and the publication of the results in the essay Saint Besse. Étude d'un culte alpestre (published in the 1913 'Revue de l'histoire des religions'). The video documents the liveliness with which the ascent to the sanctuary of San Besso is still practiced by the people of the Soana Valley and the Cogne Valley, trying to highlight the continuity and differences - compared to the picture described by Hertz - of some of the features that characterize the rite: the relationship with the thaumaturgical stone of the rocky spur on which the sanctuary is grafted, the sanctualizing procession, sleeping in contact with the rock, the rite of passage to the coming of age of 18 in Cogne.