14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Video and Institution
BIENNALE DEI GIOVANI ARTISTI DELL'EUROPA E DEL MEDITERRANEO
Country: Italy
Year: 1996
Duration: 18'
A promotional film meant to publicize the Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, to be held in the spring of 1997. This is a trip down the roads of Turinese culture covering both institutional and noninstitutional areas. The promo uses "microfilms" of video art that aim to catch the essence what the artists, agencies, and cultural organizations that appear on screen are doing. For each topic the film covers, it identifies the settings and images most fit to represent the activities and "attitudes" of the cultural movers. The main reason for this method of proceeding is to create a channel of communication that does not have to spell everything out and that is as involving as possible. Rather than pushing a list of facts and information at the viewer, the film aims more lo entertain the viewer and make her or him "experience" the authentic expanse of culture in the city. The key that opens us up to this way of proceeding that is, working on the level of the emotions - is film language. In this case, the language is articulated through anticonventional ways of shooting the subjects, through ironically surreal settings, through editing that is tight and hardly orthodox if the issue were to "document" reality, though a carefree and fractured use of music, and through the absence of spoken, educational commentary.
Biography
film director
Cocito & Pastore
Alessandro Cocito and Luca Pastore (Turin, 1962 and 1963) have been active for about the past ten years in the field of audiovisual communication. In the field of television, they created and produced Nuovi Intervalli for RAI Tre in 1989 - a series of ten .short films on cities and places in Italy - as well as a new 1993 series of ten short films on Europe. Over the years they also have been active in the documentary field, producing several documentaries, including the recent Senza Titolo, a film on the November, 1994, floods in the Langhe as well as IRA, a report on the Northern Ireland issue as told through the experiences of an IRA militant. Recently they have been working in the field of commercials, including those made for companies such as FIAT Auto, Pagine Gialle and Henkel. It is also involved in the making of music videos for groups such as Africa Unite, Fluxus and Maoelarivoluzione.
FILMOGRAFIA
Adeu Dalí (1988), Jean Tinguely: una magia più forte della morte (1989), Intervalli italiani (1989), Uno e quattordici (1989), Gruppi d'Italia (1991), Aspettando la pubblicità (1991), Intervalli europei (1992), IRA (1993), Senza titolo (1994), Welat/Patria (1996), Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell'Europa e del Mediterraneo (1996), Subacquea (1997).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Cocito & Pastore.
Editor: Alessandra Finarino.
Music: brani di repertorio.
Sound: Sergio Castaldi.
Production company: Comitato Organizzatore Biennale Torino '97, via Garibaldi 25, 10122 Torino, tel. +390114422115, fax +390114422266.
Editor: Alessandra Finarino.
Music: brani di repertorio.
Sound: Sergio Castaldi.
Production company: Comitato Organizzatore Biennale Torino '97, via Garibaldi 25, 10122 Torino, tel. +390114422115, fax +390114422266.