Country: Italy
Year: 1997
Duration: 8'
A woman walks along the street as she does every morning. She is aware that other people look at her and she is strong enough not to be forced to surrender to the most intrusive gazes. She knows that she looks good. A voice intuits that that force is not enough, and chooses a strange way to tell her about this.
Biography
film director
Monica Stambrini
biography Monica Stambrini was born in 1970 in Mountain View, California. She studied in Milan, where she received a diploma in cinematographic directing from CFP. She has worked in various capacities for many Italian directors and shot the making of the film L'assedio (1998) by Bernardo Bertolucci. She directed numerous short movies between 1991 and 1998, both on film and in video, and has participated at many Italian and international festivals. Between 1999 and 2000 she made six documentaries for RaiSatArte. Gas is her first full-length fiction film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rinvenimenti (cm, 1991), Riproduzioni (cm, 1992), Epitaffio (mm, 1993), Ambliopia-Punti di vista (cm, 1993), Vorrei urlare! (cm, doc., 1994), Animali domestici (cm, 1995), Monique publique (cm, 1997), Sshhh… (cm, 1998), Cent'anni di solitudine (videoclip, 1998), Raccontoduepunti (cm, 1998), Punti di vista - Steve della Casa (cm, doc., tv, 1999), 10minuti con George Segal (cm, doc., tv, 1999), Out of the House - Gerard Richter (cm, doc., tv, 1999), Made in Milan - Conversazione con Michele De Lucchi (cm, doc., tv, 2000), Conversazione con Vico Magistretti (cm, doc., tv, 2000), Conversazione con Marco Zanuso (cm, doc., tv, 2000), Benzina (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Monica Stambrini.
Screenplay: Monica Stambrini, Patricia Chendi.
Director of photography: Saverio Guarna.
Scenografia, Costume designer: Cristina Da Rolo.
Editor: Paola Freddi.
Sound: Giuseppe Napoli.
Cast: Benedetta Cesqui, James Shindler, Rinaldo Rocco, Luciano Bartoli, Dino Gentili.
Production company: Noi, c/o Monica Stambrini, via dei Baullari 138, 00186 Roma, tel. +39-0668807722, +39338-7110193, fax +390668807722.
Italian distribution: Marco Gallo, Maurizio Aprea, via Asiago 2, 00195 Roma, tel. +39063612429, fax +39063220360
Screenplay: Monica Stambrini, Patricia Chendi.
Director of photography: Saverio Guarna.
Scenografia, Costume designer: Cristina Da Rolo.
Editor: Paola Freddi.
Sound: Giuseppe Napoli.
Cast: Benedetta Cesqui, James Shindler, Rinaldo Rocco, Luciano Bartoli, Dino Gentili.
Production company: Noi, c/o Monica Stambrini, via dei Baullari 138, 00186 Roma, tel. +39-0668807722, +39338-7110193, fax +390668807722.
Italian distribution: Marco Gallo, Maurizio Aprea, via Asiago 2, 00195 Roma, tel. +39063612429, fax +39063220360
