12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1994 - Fiction
IL PIANTONE
by Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza
Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 15'
The attitude-and-weep germ - the condition of foreseeing events with an afflicted attitude - has taken over the inhabitants on a mysterious earthly base in an unexpIainable way. Two characters who we may define as the "ascetics" interact with the great tearful tribe. Without knowing it, they drag behind a young woman. The weeping ends up forming an actual liquid space, and "laughing man" leaps out from this space. This being begins to sow the seeds of democratic optimism and proposes himself as the alternative. The theoretician of the melancholy and the man of the plastic smile go up against each other in a frenetic electoral clash which leads the optimist to take power It is at this point that the two ascetics go into action. After they congratulate the victor, they lead him, in a very natural way, to an electric chair to execute him. After they confront the raging woman, rape her, and finish her off by clubbing her to death. The great desolate mass arise to take on the role of guilty victims and are suppressed with a nerve gas. The two ascetics - partisans of a democratic "use-and-throw-away optimism" - leave the dead behind them to keep on predicting a two-bit, petty, and simplistic trust.
Biography
film director
Antonio Rezza
(Novara, 1965) is a stage and film writer, novelist, and performer. Since the early 1990s, he has made numerous works – including five fiction feature films, a documentary, and over thirty shorts for cinema and TV – almost always in collaboration with Flavia Mastrella. The two of them received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Theatre Festival, and the “Rosa d'Oro della Milanesiana” award.
FILMOGRAFIA
La Beata mancata (cm, 1991), Fratello Kraus (cm, 1991), Il vecchio dentro (cm, 1992), Suppietij (cm, 1991), La divina provvidenza (cm, 1991), Larva (cm, 1993), Confusus (1992), Preoccupatio (cm, 1993), L’orrore di vivere (cm, 1993), Torpore internazionale (cm, 1993), Il piantone (cm, 1993), Escoriandoli (1994), Evolutio (cm, 1994), De civitate rei (cm, 1994), Mongana (cm, 1995), Represso SVHS (cm, 1995), Il telefonetto (cm, 1995), Zero a zero (cm, 1995), Psicosi multipla (cm, 1995), Raptus (cm, 1995), Fiorenzo (cm, 1995), Schizzopatia (cm, 1996), Delitto sul Po (1996), Troppolitani (cm, 1997-2000), Porte (cm, 1997), Virus (cm, 1997), L’handicappato (cm, 1997), Hai mangiato? (cm, 1997), Angeli negli occhi di Alberto (cm, 1998), Il Mosè Michelangelo (cm, 1999), Fummo (cm, 1999), Turo (cm, 1999), Milano, Via Padova (doc, 2001), Fotofinish 2 (2006), Il passato è il mio bastone (cm, 2008), Nell'aldilà (cm, 2008), Ottimismo democratico (2008), Troppolitani Fuori dove? (cm, 2010), Samp (2016), Molossi (cm, 2020), Autoritratto (cm, 2020), Il cristo in gola (2022).
Flavia Mastrella
Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza are the authors of theatrical and cinematographic works. Their productions have won many prizes at the most important national comedy festivals. In 1996 they presented the feature film EsCoriandoli at the Festival in Venice. At the same time, they began working with the Teatro Stabile in the Marche region. Rezza is also a novelist, and Mastrella is a photographer and sculptor.
FILMOGRAFIA
Filmografia essenziale / Essential Filmography
Suppietij (cm, 1991), Torpore internazionale (cm, 1993), Praeoccupatio (cm, 1993), De civitate rei (cm, 1994), Evoloutio (cm, 1994), Schizzopatia (cm, 1995), Raptus (cm, 1995), Zero a zero (cm, 1995), Represso (cm, 1995), EsCoriandoli (1996), Critico e critici (cm, 1996), Porte (cm, 1997), Hai mangiato? (cm, 1997), Virus (cm, 1997), Angeli negli occhi di Alberto (cm, 1998), Michelangelo (cm, 1999), Troppolitani (cm, 1999), Turo (cm, 1999), Delitto sul Po (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director and editor: Antonio Rezza, Flavia Mastrella.
Screenplay: Antonio Rezza.
Director of photography: Flavia Mastrella.
Music: Franco Battiato, David Byrne, Claudio Monteverdi, Brian Eno.
Cast: Geraldine Vitullo, Chiara Cavalli, Maurizio Catania, Giuseppe Piga, Paolo Moglia, Armando Novara, Antonio Rezza, Flavia Mastrella.
Production company: Flavia Mastrelia e Antonio Rezza, via Eschieto 30, 00048 Nettuno (Roma), tel. +39-06-9850062, fax +39-06-9844836.
Screenplay: Antonio Rezza.
Director of photography: Flavia Mastrella.
Music: Franco Battiato, David Byrne, Claudio Monteverdi, Brian Eno.
Cast: Geraldine Vitullo, Chiara Cavalli, Maurizio Catania, Giuseppe Piga, Paolo Moglia, Armando Novara, Antonio Rezza, Flavia Mastrella.
Production company: Flavia Mastrelia e Antonio Rezza, via Eschieto 30, 00048 Nettuno (Roma), tel. +39-06-9850062, fax +39-06-9844836.
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