Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 18'
This is a short story told with images based on a piece by Enzo Moscato. It tries to follow the emotions that the "practice" of cinema can inspire. It is a homage to cinema and to a city, Naples, "which everybody sees but few know". The film is balanced between the past and the present, between reality and fantasy. It follows the walk of a boy (perhaps our child), his way of looking at things, at people, and at the city alleyways.
"The present-day Teatro Galleria Toledo is situated at the throbbing heart of the Spanish Quarter. It was once a popular movie theater - 'o cinema - as we kids happily used to say. From time to time, it was the place where we encountered fantasy, the world of images, and the possibility to travel unbridled through all possible worlds" (Antonietta De Lillo).
Biography
film director
Antonietta De Lillo
Antonietta De Lillo (Naples, 1960) began working as a photo reporter and then, in 1985, directed with Giorgio Magliulo The Remains of Nothing, Silver Ribbon as Best First Film. Between 1992 and 1999 she made various documentaries and video portraits, including Ogni sedia ha il suo rumore, dedicated to Alda Merini. Her film Racconti di Vittoria (1995) received the FEDIC Award and the Film Critic Union’s Award in Venice, while Non è giusto participated at the Locarno Film Festival. The Remains of Nothing (2004), presented in Venice, won three David di Donatellos and the Flaiano Award for Best Screenplay. In 2007 she founded the production and distribution company Marechiarofilm, with which she made La pazza della porta accanto and Let’s Go, both presented at the Torino Film Festival, in 2013 and 2014.
FILMOGRAFIA
Angelo Novi fotografo di scena (doc., 1992), Promessi sposi (doc., 1993), Ogni sedia ha il suo rumore (doc., 1995), Viento ‘e Terra (1996), Il faro (2000), Non è giusto (2001), Pianeta Tonino (2002), Il resto di niente (2004), Il pranzo di Natale (2011), Oggi insieme, domani anche (2013), La pazza della porta accanto (mm, doc., 2013), Let’s Go (cm, doc., 2014), Oggi insieme domani anche (doc., 2015).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Antonietta De Lillo.
Plot: Enzo Moscato.
Director of photography: Cesare Accetta.
Editor: Giogiò Franchini.
Music: Daniele Sepe.
Production company: Megaris, via Fedro 7, 80122 Napoli, tel. +39-081-667974, fax +39-081-668109.
Plot: Enzo Moscato.
Director of photography: Cesare Accetta.
Editor: Giogiò Franchini.
Music: Daniele Sepe.
Production company: Megaris, via Fedro 7, 80122 Napoli, tel. +39-081-667974, fax +39-081-668109.