1° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Tematiche Giovanili 1982
Some of Us Looking at the Stars
by Alberto Chiantaretto, Daniele Pianciola
Country: Italy
Year: 1982
Duration: 60'
Young music is seen as unifying moment and voice of juvenile condition. Following the protagonists through a big, industrial city, the result is a one-day-and-two-nights journey inside a distinct language, through the reality of work, the myth of rock, the dream of professionalism, the collective ritual of the concert: the music of young people is the soundtrack of their lives.
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala - English translation Francesca Sala
Biography
film director
Alberto Chiantaretto
Alberto Chiantaretto (1947) is member of the KWK Kinowerke cooperative and he lives and works in Turin. He worked as directors on the following products of KWK: Tolleranza un decimo (1978, 16 mm, black and white, 35 min.); Sei cervi nel parco del re (1979, 16 mm, colour, 25 min.); Officine Savigliano (1979, 16 mm, black and white, 30 min.); La ceramic di Castellamonte (1980, 16 mm, colour, 17 min.); I maestri mobilieri di Saluzzo ( the same); L’oro di Valenza Po (the same); Tutto occupato (1980, 16 mm, colour, 55 min.); Come uno di noi (1981, 16 mm, colour, 52 min.). There are also a few work in progress: Venerdì sera, lunedì mattina (16 mm, colour, 90 min.) for RAI-DSE and Lavoro e salute (temporary title, 16 mm, colour, 30 min.) for SIP.
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala
FILMOGRAFIA
Tolleranza un decimo (1979, con D. Pianciola), Tutto occupato (1980, con D. Pianciola), Come uno di noi (1981, con D. Pianciola), Some of Us Looking at the Stars (1982, con D. Pianciola), Biella e l'industria tessile (1983), Venerdì sera, lunedì mattina (1983, con D. Pianciola), Fabbrica e salute (1984), L'enigma (1986, con J. Rouch, M. di Castri, D. Pianciola).
Daniele Pianciola
Daniele Pianciola was born in Turin in 1947. He is member of the KWK Kinowerke cooperative and he lives and works in Turin. He worked as directors on the following products of KWK: Tolleranza un decimo (1978, 16 mm, black and white, 35 min.); Sei cervi nel parco del re (1979, 16 mm, colour, 25 min.); Officine Savigliano (1979, 16 mm, black and white, 30 min.); La ceramic di Castellamonte (1980, 16 mm, colour, 17 min.); I maestri mobilieri di Saluzzo ( the same); L’oro di Valenza Po (the same); Tutto occupato (1980, 16 mm, colour, 55 min.); Come uno di noi (1981, 16 mm, colour, 52 min.). There are also a few work in progress: Venerdì sera, lunedì mattina (16 mm, colour, 90 min.) for RAI-DSE and Lavoro e salute (temporary title, 16 mm, colour, 30 min.) for SIP.
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala
FILMOGRAFIA
Tolleranza un decimo (1978, con A. Chiantaretto), Torino tra le due guerre (1978), Some of Us Looking at the Stars (1982, con A. Chiantaretto), Un cuore d'acciaio (1982-83), Venerdì sera, lunedì mattina (1983, con A. Chiantaretto), Innovazione tecnologica e ricerca scientifica (1984), Metropoli/computer, lavoro distrutto/lavoro possibile (1984), La scienza e la colpa (1985), L'immagine trovata (ipotesi per un identikit) (1985), Knots/Nodi (1985), L'enigma (1986, con J. Rouch, A. Chiantaretto, M. di Castri).
Declaration
film director
The initial idea was to verify how music is the unifying moment and voice of the juvenile condition, to understand what this city is, from the current music point of view, to see how young people live their mythologies, the realities of music, the obstacles not to be mere consumers, but also protagonists. We then came to the script with the certainty that we could represent just this world of music, or at least part of it, instead of using the inquiry. When we had to create the movie, we chose to stage some situations, people (found in the places where young people go, in the city), fragments of their life and days. We wanted them to reproduce in front of the camera what they wanted to be in life. They played their lives, cleaning them by the excess of biography, leaving out something and adding something else, in order to give symbolic and general features.
That’s how one part of the film is; the other one is still about investigation and the observation (of the phenomenon or of the individual or of the group) prevails on the representation: people don’t become fictional characters, they don’t play for the camera, but they accept to be followed and observed.
Iggy Pop, on the stage during the concert after the cloudburst, represents the stardom, the provocation and the transgression of music: he’s the “iguana of rock”. In the dressing room, the camera observes and interviews the old rock man, who apart from professionalism, shows a world in which rock is not only a job, but a consistent way of life. In the same way Wanda, a young girl from Turin, a worker, tries to build herself piece by piece, with awareness, facing the project of becoming a rock singer as a full-time job. That’s the same world that Elio (1977 generation, those who were into politics and still are) watches with mistrust and sarcasm in Wanda’s experience and strongly disapproves in his personal analysis of the “music business”.
The combination of two genres, or of two different ways of narrating, is the way we chose to talk about a complex, fragmented, uneven reality. The things that happen to the protagonists, who follow very different paths, never cross if only occasionally or maybe in those places that their separate world offers them.
Alberto Chiantaretto and Daniele Pianciola
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala - English translation Francesca Sala
Cast
& Credits
Director: Alberto Chiantaretto, Daniele Pianciola.
Screenplay: Alberto Chiantaretto, Marco di Castri, Daniele Pianciola.
Director of photography: Maurizio Calvesi (16mm, Eastmancolor).
Music: Iggy Pop, Pretenders, AC/DC, Devo, Nina Hagen ecc.
Suono (presa diretta): Marco Di Castri.
Editor: Alberto Chiantaretto, Daniele Pianciola.
Production company: KWK Kinowerke Coop., Torino.
Screenplay: Alberto Chiantaretto, Marco di Castri, Daniele Pianciola.
Director of photography: Maurizio Calvesi (16mm, Eastmancolor).
Music: Iggy Pop, Pretenders, AC/DC, Devo, Nina Hagen ecc.
Suono (presa diretta): Marco Di Castri.
Editor: Alberto Chiantaretto, Daniele Pianciola.
Production company: KWK Kinowerke Coop., Torino.