Country: Italy
Year: 1998
Duration: 12'20"
Milan and a young woman who wakes up in the city.
"A young woman is about to wake up. / Halfsleeps. In the colors of the aurora in / the streets of Milan. Trees. Rooms. / Building walls. Dreamed and daily ways of going. / Metaphysical urban spaces. / Normal gestures. Returning to rising. / Eye that looks around and dreams. / Like when you look a young woman / who is about to wake up. In Milan" (Francesco Ballo).
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
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Francesco Ballo.
Director of photography: Marcello Alongi, Francesco Ballo.
Cast: Francesca Cinquini, Clizia Verrado, Davide Ghelfi.
Production company: Francesco Ballo - MAD Produzione, via della Chiusa 8, 20123 Milano, Italy, tel. +39-2-58313805.
Director of photography: Marcello Alongi, Francesco Ballo.
Cast: Francesca Cinquini, Clizia Verrado, Davide Ghelfi.
Production company: Francesco Ballo - MAD Produzione, via della Chiusa 8, 20123 Milano, Italy, tel. +39-2-58313805.