On 27 August 2025, Federico Fornaro (Raw-News Visual Production Agency) and Chiara Certomà (Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Department), presented the premiere of the new short documentary “Around Alone: Documenting Ocean Relationships” at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference 2025 (RGS-IBG AC2025), held at the University of Birmingham.

 

 

Directed and filmed by Federico Fornaro, with photographic support by Giuseppe Lupinacci and with the scientific project coordination of Chiara Certomà, The documentary has been produced by Raw-News Visual Production Agency for the PRIN2022 MIUR project “DSICity”, in collaboration with the EU Project PartArt4OW and with the endorsement of the UN Ocean Decade Program.

 

 

“Around Alone” continues the exploration of the “ Oceanic sense place” as a key concept and form of knowledge in the social geography of the sea.

Italian navigator Matteo Miceli’s story shows us the high seas as a space imbued with cultural and symbolic meaning, discovered and experienced with the aid of eco-sustainable equipment on a completely self-sufficient world voyage aboard the Eco40 vessel.

This second documentary contribute to “Documenting Ocean Relationships” stream together with the first short-doc: “A Sense of Place – Documenting Ocean Relationships”, also screened at the RGS during the “Film Geography” session.

 

Credits and Accessibility

 

 

Information:

• Chiara Certomà – chiara.certoma@uniroma1.it

• Federico Fornaro – federico.fornaro@raw-news.net

• https://crowdusg.net/2025/08/16/around-alone-technologies-society-and-the-sea-premiered-at-the-rgs-ac2025/

• CO>SEA research diary: https://crowdusg.net/cosea/

• PartArt4OW project: https://partart4ow.eu/