Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 8'


Clone 23 is a double, a spare man to be cut up and sold piece by piece to the best bidder, like an animal hanging on show in a butcher shop. He therefore flees into his mind and imagination where he creates a cell that is a little bigger than the one he lives in. However, even here his hallucinations and his anguish do not allow him to breathe easy. Thus he meets the hypothetical characters who have benefited from his body.

"One day while I was watching the Tv news, I heard the announcer say that Hitler's final aim, the cloning of a human being, was finally achieved. Then the announcer's voice went on to theorize the creation of a factory producing people, from whom one could extract organs without thinking about the human factor. Naturally, a little scandal grew out of this and things - who knows why? - were hushed up quickly. In this way I imagined a man sitting behind the door of his cell waiting for his agony to finish. Even now I wonder if a factory of this kind already exists or is being built in some part of the world. And the thought of it gives me the chills." (Marco Massaccesi).

Biography

film director

Marco Massaccesi

Marco Massaccesi (Roma, 1968) began to make videos in 1990. Some of these have appeared in various film festivals, such as Roma, Pisa, Napoli, Fano, San Paolo, and Torino.

FILMOGRAFIA

Lamento silenzioso (1991), Il mio fiore (1991), Un viso stampato sul vetro (1992), Vivere e morire (1994), Il pacco (1994), L'uomo di scorta (1994), Play boy postatomico (1995).

Giovanni Piperno

(Rome, 1964) worked as a photographer and assistant cameraman in movies and commercials; in 1997, he began making TV programs and documentaries. His films include L’esplosione, which won the Doc competition at the 2003 TFF and was nominated for a David di Donatello; This Is My Sister, which won the Avanti! award at the 2006 TFF; and Cimap! Centoitalianimattiapechino, which was presented at Locarno and won the 2009 Libero Bizzarri award. Il pezzo mancante (2010), about the Agnelli family, won the Cinema Doc competition at the TFF, while his next movie Le cose belle (2012), co-directed with Agostino Ferrente, participated at the Venice Film Festival and later won twenty-five national and international awards. The collective film 9x10 novanta (2014), produced by the Istituto Luce for its ninetieth anniversary, participated at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice and that same year he collaborated with Antonietta De Lillo on the documentary Let’s Go, out-of-competition at the 2014 TFF. In 2015, he presented the short films Se avessi le parole and Quasi eroi at the Rome Film Fest; this latter movie also won the Silver Ribbon for best short film. In 2017, he made the video installation L’energia degli italiani for the Italian pavilion at the Expo in Astana, Kazakhstan, and in 2018, the web series Ogni santo 23. In 2020, he presented the short Come si scrive ti amo in coreano in Rome and that same year he taught documentary directing at the Gian Maria Volonté Film School. In 2021 he presented Cipria.

FILMOGRAFIA

Ebrei in Sudafrica (coregia Laura Muscardin, cm, doc, 1992), Black Taxi (coregia Laura Muscardin, cm, 1993), Mosè a Bombay (coregia Laura Muscardin, cm, doc, 1994), Bananine unipolari (cm, doc, 1997), Il mio nome è Nico Cirasola (mm, doc, 1998), Intervista a mia madre (coregia Agostino Ferrente, mm, doc, 1999), Verdi Suprême (cm, doc, 2002), L’esplosione (doc, 2003), This Is My Sister (mm, doc, 2006), Cimap! Centoitalianimattiapechino (doc, 2008), La danza delle api (coregia Giulio Cederna, mm, doc), Il pezzo mancante (doc, 2010), Le cose belle (coregia Agostino Ferrente, doc, 2012), Miracolo italiano (ep. di 9x10 novanta, 2014), Chiedi a papà (serie tv, doc, 2015), Almost Heroes (cm, 2015), Viale Giorgio Morandi (2017), Lamiya (cm, 2019), Voci a domicilio (cm, 2019), Come si scrive ti amo in coreano (cm, 2019), Cipria (2021), Sedici millimetri alla rivoluzione (doc, 2023).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Marco Massaccesi, Giovanni Piperno.
Sceneggiatura, montaggio: Marco Massaccesi.
Director of photography: Giovanni Piperno, Enzo Carpineta.
Music: Incognito, Stevie Wonder.
Cast: Marco Massaccesi, Enzo De Pasquale, Julie Gavras, Virginia Antonnicola, Fabrizio Campanella, Williams Troiano, Enzo Carpineta.
Production company: Marco Massaccesi, via Marchisio 129, 00173 Roma, tel. +39-06-7219459, fax +39-06-71586585 - Giovanni Piperno, via Antoneffi 35, 00197 Roma, tel. +39-06-8082483.
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