10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Proposals 1992
D'amore si vive - parte seconda bell'amore
Country: Italy
Year: 1992
Duration: 90'
An investigation into themes like tenderness, sexuality, and love could not be enclosed within a single filmic experience. Thus the present investigation focuses on men and follows Part 1, which focused on femininity. The third and last part, Love Duet, takes up the reality of "couples". It is presently in production. Like all of my research, Beautiful Love underwent a long and complex gestation period. The material was shown in private screenings to test if it was interesting and functional. It has now reached its final and definitive form. We would like to emphasize that this research lead us to a revealing hypothesis: breakdowns in the management of the emotions in our contemporary social culture occur when three key structural elements in human relations are separated from each other. Tenderness experienced in itself when lacking sexuality and love - produces "hypocricy". Sexuality when cut off from tenderness and love produces "pornography". And love, any kind of love - when it does not contain sexuality and tenderness produces "mysticism". This is why presentday society shows itself to be a hypocritical, pornographic, and mystical.
Considerations on the use of the video
Video has the rare virtue of "recording" the nuances of human mimicry with upmost discretion as well as a potential for "technical length". All this has allowed me to work with complete freedom finally without a technical crew and with little or no special lighting. I had the same confidence in my working procedure as someone writing a novel or painting a picture. This can mean for me and many others I hope, many the fall of that hypocritical pachyderm - film "as an industry" and its losing its place to "film as an expression of human creativity". (Silvano Agosti)
Biography
film director
Silvano Agosti
Silvano Agosti (Brescia, 1938) enrolled in 1960 at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome; his graduation film in 1962 was entitled La veglia. In 1963 he went to Moscow to specialize in editing and to study the work of Ejzens tejn. In 1967 Agosti debuted with the full-length film Il giardino delle delizie, from which the censors cut 28 minutes. After numerous "militant" documentaries, Agosti founded 11 Marzo Cinematografica, a cooperative which has produced all his films. From 1976 to 1978 he taught editing at the Centro Sperimentale. His movie-theater Azzurro Scipioni, in the Prati district, became a point of reference for art films. In 1983 he finished D'amore si vive, a film which focuses on tenderness, sensuality and love, which was shot in Parma over a two year time span. In 1984 he published the novel L'uomo proiettile. This book was followed by Uova di garofano, Il giudice, La ragion pura, La vittima.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il giardino delle delizie (Gardens of Delights, 1967), Cinegiornali del movimento studentesco (1968), N. P. il segreto (1971), Altri seguiranno (1973), Scerscev (1973), Brescia 1974 ( 1974), Matti da slegare (Fit to Be Untied, coregia/codirectors Marco Bellocchio, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano
Rulli, 1975), Nel più alto dei cieli (In the Highest of Skies, 1977), La macchina cinema (1978), Album concerto (1979), Un incontro (1981), Il buffone di Dio (1981), Runaway America (1982), L’addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984), D'amore si vive (1983), Quartiere (1987), Uova di Garofano (Sweet War, Farewell, 1992), Frammenti di vita clandestina (doc., 1993), L'uomo proiettile (1995), Trent'anni di oblio (1998), C'ero anch'io - Frammenti di lotte di strada (1998), La seconda ombra (2000), La ragion pura (The Sleeping Wife, 2001), Dario Fo - Un ritratto (2002), La conquista della vita (doc., 2008).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura, suono e montaggio: Silvano Agosti.
Music: Giuseppe Verdi.
Production company: 11 Marzo Cinematografica, viale Giulio Cesare 128n, Roma.
Music: Giuseppe Verdi.
Production company: 11 Marzo Cinematografica, viale Giulio Cesare 128n, Roma.