Sopramonte of
Orgosolo: it was once a
hideout for escaped convicts and bandits, now a shepherd descends with
his herd
to the sheepfold. He is a solitari figure,
as though crushed in an immense landscape. In
the meantime, other shepherds milk the sheep, process the milk, cut
branches
for the fire, cook, warm themselves, rest. There is a deep relationship
between
the shepherd and his land, his life and the hardness of nature.
Vittorio De Seta
Vittorio De
Seta (Palermo,
1923) debuted as a director
with Pasqua in
Sicilia, which he co-directed with Vito Pandolfi, and between
1954 and 1955 he
shot six documentaries in Sicily. Of these, Isola di fuoco won
first
prize for best documentary at the Festival of Cannes in 1955
FILMOGRAPHY
(Updated to the last partecipation to TFF)
Lu tempu di li
pisci spata (cm, doc.,
1954), Isole di fuoco (cm,
doc., 1954), Surfarara (cm, doc., 1955), Parabola
d'oro (cm,
doc., 1955), Pasqua in Sicilia (cm, doc., 1956), Contadini
del mare (cm,
doc., 1956), Pescherecci (cm, doc., 1958), Pastori
a Orgosolo (cm,
doc., 1958), Un giorno in Barbagia (cm, doc.,
1958), I dimenticati (cm,
doc., 1959), Banditi a Orgosolo (1960), Un
uomo a metà (1966), L'invitata
(1969), Diario di un maestro (TV, 1973),
Un anno a Pietralata (TV,
1974), In Calabria (1993), Dedicato ad
Antonino Uccello (2002), Lettere
dal Sahara (2005).
