Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 5'30''
Step is a short fiction film based exclusively on shots of the legs and feet of the protagonists - Mr. K and Mrs. W - who have an appointment in a park in city X. Mr. K gets off the train, reaches the exit, crosses the whole city by foot, and enters the part, where Mrs. W is waiting for him with a certain impatience. As soon as they recognize each other from a distance, they go towards each other.
"My choice as director was not dictated because I rejected certain shots or tried to turn 'rules' upside down. However, I just wanted to characterize some details and to look for paradoxical and humorous situations." (Gian Luca Serra)
Biography
film director
Gian Luca Severi
Gian Luca Severi (Montecatini Terme-Pistoia, 1960) graduated from a technical-commercial high school and then interrupted his university studies. He has been commended various times in literary competitions and for literary awards. He studied piano, music composition, and choral singing. From 1989 to 1991 he worked as assistant in the making of several documentaries on Lucca and Pistoia. The short film, Step, was made as a final project for the first year of study at the directing course of the Institute of Audiovisual Sciences coordinated by Federigo Zais.
FILMOGRAFIA
Step (1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Gian Luca Severi.
Director of photography: Antonio Mangieri.
Music: Miles Davis, George Gershwin, Petr Ill'ic Cajkovskij.
Editor: Federigo Zais.
Production company: Istituto delle Scienze Cinematografiche ed Audiovisive, via Ghibellina 90, 50122 Firenze, tel. +39-055-244837, fax +39-055-243297.
Director of photography: Antonio Mangieri.
Music: Miles Davis, George Gershwin, Petr Ill'ic Cajkovskij.
Editor: Federigo Zais.
Production company: Istituto delle Scienze Cinematografiche ed Audiovisive, via Ghibellina 90, 50122 Firenze, tel. +39-055-244837, fax +39-055-243297.