14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Proposals 1996
Quando le ombre si allungano
by Francesco Ballo
This is apparently a film noir, shot on location in Milan and at the foot of Mount Cervino in Val d'Aosta. The gangster, Marsoni, has just gotten out of jail. He is being followed by his exgang members and is forced to flee with Angela. He will avenge himself at the end in an epic clash at the foot of the mountains.
Biography
film director
Francesco Ballo
(Milan, 1950) was a professor of History of film and video at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Scholar and filmmaker, he has published volumes about Jacques Tourneur and Buster Keaton among 2007 e 2013. In the last twenty years he has realized, among others, the feature film in 16 mm, Muri Bianchi (1998), Hai chiuso la valigia? (1999), Buster Keaton di corsa (2003), Guido Ballo. Poesie, con Marina Ballo Charmet (2004), Risa (2007), Note su Sherlock Jr., in collaboration with Paolo Darra (2009), La fantastica coppia. Roscoe Arbuckle e Buster Keaton (2014), Ghiaccio Rosso (2016), Esperimenti (2015-2016-2017), Si va… Si va… Documentario su una scalata perduta (Italia, 2017), Preferirei di no (2018). In 2019 ha presented at the Giornate del cinema muto in Pordenone Variazioni di “The Blacksmith” di Buster Keaton (2018), Mal St. Clair (2018) and The Blacksmith - Versione Ballo (2018), Pietra at Milano Film Festival (2019), and a series of shorts and fragments at Filmmaker International Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale
Muri Bianchi (1998), Milano. Corso Buenos Aires (Italia, 1998), Hai chiuso la valigia? (1999), Ortogonali (Italia, 2001), Buster Keaton di corsa (2003), Guido Ballo. Poesie, con Marina Ballo Charmet (2004), Risa (2007), Note su Sherlock Jr. (2009), La fantastica coppia. Roscoe Arbuckle e Buster Keaton (2014), Ghiaccio Rosso (2016), Esperimenti (2015-2016-2017), Si va… Si va… Documentario su una scalata perduta (Italia, 2017), Preferirei di no (2018), Variazioni di “The Blacksmith” di Buster Keaton (2018), Mal St. Clair (2018), The Blacksmith - Versione Ballo (2018), Pietra (2019), In una notte (Italia, 2022), Tornano i varani (Italia, 2022).
Cast
& Credits
Plot: Francesco Ballo, Riccardo Bianchi.
Director of photography: Andrea Treccani.
Art director: Alice Fiorilli, Kim Noce.
Editor: Francesco Ballo, Davide Ghelfi, Nereo Rapetti.
Music: Gabriele Memola, Riccardo Zara.
Cast: Giovanna Nodari, Francesco Ballo, Davide Ghelfi, Federico Bovo, Guido D'Alessandro, Alessandra Monti, Lucio Morelli, Giaco o Agosti, Piero Quaglino.
Production company: Francesco Ballo MAD, via della Chiusa 8, 20123 Milano, tel. +39-0258313805.