10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1992
ZIA ENZA È IN PARTENZA
by Roberta Torre
Country: Italy
Year: 1992
Duration: 4'30''
Aunt Enza is about to leave. Where is she going? Where did she come from? Basically it has always been this disquieting questioning that has tormented man since primordial time. It's tormented woman. Now not even the aunties are safe from existential doubts.
"Amos Melodies and Zia Enza è in partenza were made while the members of Cinico Video were working on material for a documentary on the making of Amos Gitai's spectacle, Metamorfosi di una melodia. Their documentary was produced this year. Amos Gitai's spectacle was his debut as a theatrical director. It was presented at the Oresteia in Gibellina in July. Its cast included Samuel Fuller, Hanna Schygulla and Enrico Lo Verso. After almost two months of shooting, we found ourselves with many hours of material video, normal film, 16mm, and Super8. On the one hand, there are the outstanding moments from the work of Amos. On the other hand, there are the recollections of Fuller, with whom we went over 40 years of American film. Finally Roberta Torre managed to 'converse' likewise, among the ruins of Gibellina with a Hanna Schygulla who was very ready to talk about the films she made, about directors, and about actors she met. There is talk of Fassbinder, but not too much... She talks about her own life and her own good nature, and even talks about our Sicily. All of this material is now being edited and will be completed by the end of the year. And so with these little products in their valise, the members of Cinico Video are going around Italy to let people know that they don't produce only Cinico TV but that they are ready to produce 'foreigners' too, such as Turinese, Milanese, and Romans. They, of course, are from Palermo." (Ciprì & Maresco)
Biography
film director
Roberta Torre
Roberta Torre (Milan, Italy, 1962) started directing documentaries and shorts, including Le anime corte in 1994, awarded at the Torino Film Festival. She debuted in feature films in 1997 with the musical Tano da morire, which received Kodak Award, the FEDIC Award and the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice, and the David di Donatello for Best New Director. She next directed Sud Side Stori (2000); Angela (2002); Mare Nero (2006), with which she participated at the Locarno Film Festival; I baci mai dati (2010), based on the same-titled novel and which received the Brian Award at Venice and was presented at Sundance. She is also a stage director and author: as well as the already-mentioned I baci mai dati in 2014, she has also published Il colore è una variabile dell’infinito.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cronica (cm, 1989), Senti amor mio? (cm, 1994), Le anime corte (cm, 1994), Spioni (cm, doc., 1995), Appunti per un film su Tano (cm, doc., 1995), Palermo bandita (cm, doc., 1996), Tano da morire (1997), Sud Side Stori (2000), Il viaggio lungo di Arul, Rani e Vivetas (doc., 2002), Angela (2002), La malacanzone (doc., 2005), Mare Nero (2006), All Human Rights for All (ep. La fabbrica, cm, doc., 2008), La notte quando è morto Pasolini (cm, doc., 2009), Itiburtinoterzo (cm, doc., 2009), I baci mai dati (2010), Riccardo va all’inferno (2017).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Roberta Torre.
Sceneggiatura, fotografia, suono e montaggio: Roberta Torre, Daniele Ciprì, Pigi Laffi.
Cast: Enza Rappa, Umberto Balsamo, Carlo Tortorici.
Production company and Italian distribution: Cinico Video, via Antonio di Dio 7, Palermo, tel. +39-091-6251946.
Sceneggiatura, fotografia, suono e montaggio: Roberta Torre, Daniele Ciprì, Pigi Laffi.
Cast: Enza Rappa, Umberto Balsamo, Carlo Tortorici.
Production company and Italian distribution: Cinico Video, via Antonio di Dio 7, Palermo, tel. +39-091-6251946.
