Country: Italy
Year: 1992
Duration: 10'


A video interview of a young skinhead dealing with ska music, beer, rooting, fights, and contradictions. It was made to confirm and/or deny certain commonplace beliefs.

"I want to make a fiction film. For this reason I'm continuing to work on reality." (Claudio Paletto)

Biography

film director

Claudio Paletto

Claudio Paletto (Turin, 1954) co-directed several videos with Mimmo Calopresti which appeared in the most important European film reviews in the 1980s. He then made short documentary films on social themes. He won the "Images of Reality" award at the 1990 Milan Filmmaker Festival and the 1993 Italian Space prize at the 1993 Torino Film Festival. In 1995 he won a grant for working on a screenplay written with Heidrun Schleef. Since 1997 he has worked with Richi Ferrero's Gran Teatro Urbano, with whom he has created images for urban installations and non-traditional museum exhibitions.

FILMOGRAFIA

Falso agosto (1987), Bordi taglienti (1989), Do It (1989), La musica degli angeli (1990), Spezzoni (1990), Songs & Images (1991), Shabab (1991), Alla fine del millennio (1991), Lo rifarei domani (1992), Spider (1992), Massimo rispetto (1993), Milano, 25 aprile 1994 (1994), All'incontrario (1994), Agar (1994), Italie: Domandez le sondage! (1995), Dentro… l'arcobaleno (1995), Filo rosso (1996), Ladri di emozioni (1999), Forte suggestione (2000), Zona 18, Limon - Guatemala (2000).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Claudio Paletto.
Fotografia e suono: Pè Calopresti.
Editor: Pier Milanese.
Cast: Alessandro Vellano.
Production company and Italian distribution: West Front Video Index, via Plana 1, Torino, tel. +39-011-889091.
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