Country: Italy
Year: 1992
Duration: 23'
One day anywhere a handful of lawabiding condominium tenants are waiting for something or someone in the courtyard of an old building. Pieces of conversations crisscross. Little rivalries creep up, but a holy and indisputable cause unites them in the wait: to defend by all means necessary the inviolability of the condominium and of its rules.
"Garage is neither a 'crosssection of life in the neighborhoods' nor a 'reconnaissance trip into real life' or anything like that. I wanted to talk about people's acquiescence to power in its worst version, that is, when it becomes an aping of power itself and transforms a tenant into a gendarme and a condominium into a little police state but this is only one example. The film does little more than render explicit the most apt dimension of this metaphor its grotesqueness. In this way Garage is an anti-realistic story, a distorted event a story of everyday life." (Dario Buzzolan)
Biography
film director
Dario Buzzolan
Dario Buzzolan (Turin, 1966) lives and works in Turin. He was TV critic for "Stampa Sera" and film critic for "La Gazzetta del Piemonte". At present, he curates the feature "Lo schermo invisibile" ("The Invisible Screen") for Rai3 in connection with the program Tortuga, the first permanent series about independent short films or a public network.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il mostro, lo scalzo e uno che era lì (Super8, 1988), Adagio e fuga K546 (video, 1991), Americani (video, 1992, co-regia), Garage (video, 1992), Nel gorgo (16mm, 1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Dario Buzzolan.
Screenplay: Mario Audino, Dario Buzzolan, Luisella Costamagna.
Director of photography: Paolo Campana, Andrea Lioy.
Music: Gioacchino Rossini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Sound: Alberto Airola, Marco Ricagno.
Editor: Dario Buzzolan, Claudio Domenicali, Emiliano Darchini.
Cast: Gianluca Onorato, Emanuela Currao, Cecilia Ciaffi, Gilda Postiglione, Alessandro Capellina, Davide Livermore, Giorgio Bianco, Luisella Ciaffi, Mario Audino, Paolo Ricagno, Vittoria Lottero.
Production company and Italian distribution: Finzioni s.c.r.l, via Pigafetta 65, Torino, tel. +39-011-594244.
Screenplay: Mario Audino, Dario Buzzolan, Luisella Costamagna.
Director of photography: Paolo Campana, Andrea Lioy.
Music: Gioacchino Rossini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Sound: Alberto Airola, Marco Ricagno.
Editor: Dario Buzzolan, Claudio Domenicali, Emiliano Darchini.
Cast: Gianluca Onorato, Emanuela Currao, Cecilia Ciaffi, Gilda Postiglione, Alessandro Capellina, Davide Livermore, Giorgio Bianco, Luisella Ciaffi, Mario Audino, Paolo Ricagno, Vittoria Lottero.
Production company and Italian distribution: Finzioni s.c.r.l, via Pigafetta 65, Torino, tel. +39-011-594244.