Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 19'


A window pane is missing from the window work that stands above the ticket booths at the Milan Central Train Station. There is an outlandish woman who has made the rafters of the station into the magic location of her memories and fantasies. For her, this unusual window is the undeniable instrument that allows her to keep in touch with her past as a dancer However, a young worker - indifferent and disillusioned - arrives. He has to close that precious umbilical cord that still unites the outlandish woman with the images of her past. Stationary Time is a metaphor on the importance of the imagination. It is the short story of how, for once, somebody who lives in the clouds could have it all over someone with his feet placed firmly on the ground.

"I had always thought that the imagination is a concrete thing, that film is the living incarnation of it, and that reporting reality means, nevertheless, 'imagining it' just like it is. I still think so. This short film was written years ago as part of a wider project dealing with the Milan Central Station. However shooting it has taught me that someone who makes films has to have his feet solidly on the ground because she has to fight all the time against money, time, continual unknowns and inexperience. And so, what sometimes turns out is not exactly what you had imagined it would be. But it is a great wonder to hurt your feet in order to learn how to fly!" (Elena Gamba).

Biography

film director

Elena Gamba

Elena Gamba (1967) received her degree from the Catholic University of Milan. She attended the school Ipotesi Cinema, at Bassano del Grappa, founded and directed by Ermanno Olmi. In 1992-93 she attended two screenplay courses. In 1994 she shot her first short film, Tempo stazionario. Condomusic is her second film.

FILMOGRAFIA

Tempo stazionario (cm, 1994), Condomusic (cm, 1995).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Elena Gamba.
Director of photography: Giovanni Cavallini.
Sound: Walter Pirani.
Editor: Mirella D'Angelo.
Cast: Cristina Colombo, Massimo Greco.
Production company: Elena Gamba, Raffaele Prati e Marina Spada, via Segantini 21, 25015 Desenzano del Garda (BS), tel. +39-030-9144419, fax +39-030-3450180.

TFF

prizes

AUDIENCE AWARD "ACHILLE VALDATA" 1994

Best Film in the Spazio Italia Competition

"COMMISSIONE PER LE PARI OPPORTUNITA' DONNA-UOMO" AWARD 1994

Best woman director

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