12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1994 - Non Fiction
UN SABATO DI MAGGIO
by Angelo Amoroso d'Aragona
Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 20''
The non-being of Time at the seaside. Four young women decide to get some of the first sun of the summer on an unidentified shore of a Mediterranean country. Like the chorus in a classic tragedy, they lead us to see a little bit of humanity getting ready "sentimentally" at the seaside on a quiet May Saturday. The video is part of a series of Video-Memories whose title is The Sea Inside.
"I see video as pre-cinema, as the memory for a possible cinema. It is the electronic background noise for the production of material images. The documentary trailing of something is the dialectic instrument for a filmic reflection on Reality and Vision. The Video-Memory is film's first and last aspiration - from Vertov to the widespread VCR's (...) What cinema has taught me is this: not so much the story as the vision of things. And cinema has water inside, too. Cinema abandons the borders of definition and of the senses in order to give words to things again through their Silent apparitions in images and sounds. Film is an ontological rehearsal of poetry. It is the poetic vision of reality. The cinema has the sea inside." (Angelo Amoroso d'Aragona).
Biography
film director
Angelo Amoroso d'Aragona
He began his activity in 1987 with the production center, TRANSTV, which he founded and manages. TRANSTV produced a television program on the Florence Film Festival (Forse Fioriranno Film - an encounter with young independent film) for the regional RAI, two short films by Fabio Segatori (Il corpo della Cappadocia and Lontana), a documentary video by Luca Gasparini on CCCP (Tempi moderni, distribued by BMG Ariola), and other works. In 1992 Fuori Orario (RAITRE) broadcast his report on Albanian refugees in Bari. Since 1991 he has attended the Ipotesi Cinema school at Bassano del Grappa and participated in the project, Postazione per la memoria, directed by Ermanno Olmi. From 1988 to 1991 he attended workshops on directing, editing, screen writing, acting, and theatrical improvisation.
FILMOGRAFIA
Forse fioriranno film (1987), Stesso desiderio (1993), Frammento orfico (1993), Un sabato di maggio (1994), Il velo della madonna (1994), Processione 167 (1994), La sponda (1994), Fuori campo (1995).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, fotografia, suono e montaggio: Angelo Amoroso d'Aragona.
Production company: TransTv di Angelo Amoroso d'Aragona, viale Ennio 1/AQ, 70124 Bari, tel. +39-080-5575246, fax +39-080-5575246.
Production company: TransTv di Angelo Amoroso d'Aragona, viale Ennio 1/AQ, 70124 Bari, tel. +39-080-5575246, fax +39-080-5575246.