Archive for category: 2015

Italy | 2015 | DCP | c0l. 94′

Jenny is seventeen and dreams of becoming a synchronised swimmer. Her adolescent life in Ostia, on the Roman coast, is turned upside down by a tragic event and she is forced to move to a small village in the mountains, with her ill father and her nine year old brother. They lodge in an old hut, next to a hotel where Jenny starts working as a waitress. Not resigned to her new circumstances, she promises herself and her friend Flavia that she will return to Ostia, to take part in the synchronised swimming competitions. The hotel swimming pool becomes her secret training place.

regista / director        Lamberto Sanfelice

sceneggiatura / screenplay        Elisa Amoruso, Sara Lazzaro, Lamberto Sanfelice

fotografia / cinematographer       Michele Paradisi

montaggio / editing      Andrea Maguolo

musica / music      Piernicola Di Muro

tecnico del suono / sound editor      Giancarlo Rutigliano

costumi / costume designer       Francesca Di Giuliano

scenografia / set decoration          Daniele Frabetti

cast              Sara Serraiocco, Piera Degli Esposti, Giorgio Colangeli, Ivan Franek, Anatol Sassi, Andrea Vergoni, Chiara Romano, Pina Bellano, Maria Antonietta Bafile, Andrea D’Aurelio, Mario Massari, Anna Preda Anisoara, Sofia Ranalli, Guido Maiorano

genere / genre           Fiction

produzione / production          Asmara Films

distribuzione / distribution        Good Films

Italy | 2014 | DCP, Blu-Ray | B/W 83′

Abacuc is a man weighing about 200 kilos, who passes his time in a stillness, detached from any emotion. He mainly goes to the cemetery, to Italy’s mini theme parks, or close to utopian architecture. He lives in a railway house and never utters a word. The only voice he hears is feminine and detached. She intervenes when, torn up for a moment in his catastrophic solitude, Abacuc picks up the unplugged telephone: the woman remains hidden, communicating through literary quotes, revealing herself to be a dead-end like Abacuc’s existence, because she is really only another version of himself. Living inside an unyielding order, his existence is like a  broken record: Abacuc is a puppet without an audience, performing the last possible play.  Through surviving the catastrophe of living in a continuing nothingness, Abacuc represents the need for cinematographic art to make yourself fade away and self implode. The film was shot in Super 8, the original music is from Maestro Dario Agazzi.

regista / director        Luca Ferri

sceneggiatura / screenplay        Luca Ferri

fotografia / cinematographer         Giulia Vallicelli

montaggio / editing        Alberto Valtellina

musica / music        Dario Agazzi

cast       Dario Bacis

genere / genre      Drama

produzione / production        Lab80

distribuzione / distribution         Lab80 Film