Filmed during the In-ruins 2025 residency in Canosa di Puglia, L’azzeruolo stems from the artist’s encounter with a small, endangered fruit found in the countryside surrounding the Archaeological Park of San Leucio. Half apple and half medlar, the fruit embodies a hybrid nature - fragile and tenacious at once. A symbol of persistence and transformation, it becomes the poetic key of the film and of its figures of survival.

The story finds its core in the Cinema Strippoli, a 1946 movie theatre in the heart of Canosa di Puglia, which has remained almost untouched in its original architecture. Today the cinema is closed to the public but still kept by two brothers who inherited it from their grandfather, the founder of the hall. From its family-run years in the 1980s to screenings of popular, genre, and later adult films, the cinema has lived through time as a living body - mutable yet never surrendered. Far from being merely an adult theatre, it stands as a guardian of memory and a monument to tenacity, immersed in a city of archaeological layers, hypogea, and shadows.