14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1996 - Fiction
TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DAYS
Country: Italy
Year: 1996
Duration: 6'
Twenty five children from a community of minors who have been abandoned or taken from their families present themselves in front of a mirror behind which there is a television camera. They are fully aware that they are being filmed. Theirs is an interpretation through free "gestures". Other images are interlaced with these the images of a paper factory, which show the process of the birth of paper. Everything comes together at the end, where there remains a drawing by each one as a last trace.
Biography
film director
Gianluca Balocco
Gianluca Balocco (Verona, 1964) received his degree in Architecture in 1988. He has worked in the field of experimental video and photography. He has participated in many exhibitions of contemporary art, including: the XLV Biennial of Venice (1993), the exhibit "Mystery and Myth" organized by the museums of the four Japanese cities of Fukuyama, Chiba, Kochi, and Iida (1994), and the IV Biennale International du Film sur l'Art at the Georges Pompidou Center (1994).
FILMOGRAFIA
Viaggio senza passaporto (1993), The Tube (1994), I poeti noti hanno ombra (1995), Brain Beat (1995), R.E.M. (Rapid Eyes Movements) (1996), Twenty Five Thousand Days (1996).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Gianluca Balocco.
Director of photography: Piero Matarrese.
Editor: Gianluca Balocco, Piero Matarrese.
Musica e suono: Federico de' Robertis.
Production company: Gianluca Balocco, via Sebastiano Caboto 5, 37060 Lugagnano (Vr), tel. e fax +39045-8680147.
Director of photography: Piero Matarrese.
Editor: Gianluca Balocco, Piero Matarrese.
Musica e suono: Federico de' Robertis.
Production company: Gianluca Balocco, via Sebastiano Caboto 5, 37060 Lugagnano (Vr), tel. e fax +39045-8680147.