Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 11'
A seventy-year-old ex-amateur filmmaker comes out of his years of inactivity and decides to shoot the remake of one of his old short films from the 1970s. While he is waiting for the porno-star Sandy Balestra, he tries to convince a young woman to play the role: she is to masturbate in front of the 16mm camera while he is filming her and to reach orgasm before the end the ten-minute long spool.
"Luciano Galluzzi is a filmmaker who did a great deal of work in the 1970s. Sandy Balestra is a porno star who started her career at 18 out of love for Rocco Siffredi. We were fascinated by Sandy and Luciano, by the era, and by cinema, and so we shot Amateurs, the first episode of a sexual trilogy" (Monica Repetto, Pietro Balla).
Biography
film director
Pietro Balla
Pietro Balla (Poirino, Turin, Italy, 1956-2021) earned his degree in political science; in 1985 he started making shows and documentaries for Italian television. His works include Illibatezza, 1949 - Nelle terre di Dio, Dérive Gallizio, Ballando nel fumo and I campioni di Olimpia. He created and produced the series Scatti di nera, with Michele Placido, for Fox International Channels Italia, and, between 2007 and 2008, he co-directed and produced with Monica Repetto the documentary Operai for Raitre. In 2008 the Venice Film Festival presented his documentary feature ThyssenKrupp Blues, directed and produced with Monica Repetto, his companion and main collaborator.
FILMOGRAFIA
Illibatezza (cm, 1994), Camerini ardenti (mm, doc., 1996), Amateurs (coregia Monica Repetto, cm, doc., 1999), Agathae, 3 giorni di fuoco e devozione (mm, doc., 1999), Amateurs 2 (coregia Monica Repetto, cm, doc., 2000), 1949 - Nelle terre di Dio (mm, doc., 2000), Dérive Gallizio (doc., 2000), Amori in fiamme (coregia Monica Repetto, mm, tv, 2002), Ballando nel fumo (doc., 2002), I campioni di Olimpia (doc., 2004), L’odore della gomma (mm, doc., 2005), Scatti di nera (tv, 2006), Operai (coregia Monica Repetto, doc., 2008), ThyssenKrupp Blues (coregia Monica Repetto, doc., 2008), Radio Singer (mm, doc., 2009), Nitro (mm, 2012), Il corpo dell'amore (tv, 2019).
Monica Repetto
(Rome, Italy, 1965), a graduate in psychology, in the early 1990s started working as a movie critic before entering the world of cinema. In 2011, she created and curated the launch of On The Docks, the first Italian platform for on-demand videos dedicated to reality cinema. An essayist and the author of works about film, she is one of the tutors of the Premio Zavattini. A prolific director, she has collaborated with Pietro Balla on the making of numerous documentaries, including ThyssenKrupp Blues (2008), which was presented at the Venice Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Camerini ardenti. Primo tempo, dossier incompiuto su pornostar (senza sesso) (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 1996), Amateurs (coregia Pietro Balla, cm, 1999), Amateurs 2 (coregia Pietro Balla, cm, 2000), Figurine (serie TV, doc, 2000), Umanoidi associati (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 2000), Panico Jodorowsky (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 2000), Dèrive Gallizio (doc, mm, 2001), Honduras Trip (doc, 2003), I popoli dell’Honduras (doc, 2004), L’avventurosa storia di Gola Profonda in Italia (doc, mm, 2005), La vera storia di Marianne Golz (coregia Pietro Balladoc, mm, 2007), Scatti di nera (coregia Pietro Balla, serie TV, 2007), Operai (co-diretto Pietro Balla, doc, mm, 2008), ThyssenKrupp Blues (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 2008), Robocup (doc, 2009), La forza delle idee (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, 2010), Falck. Romanzo di uomini e fabbrica (coregia Pietro Balla, doc, mm, 2010), Milo Manara. Il gioco dell’avventura (doc, 2011), I racconti della Luna Veja (doc, 2012), 'O Rugbill (doc, cm, 2016), La foresta che ti strega (doc, 2018), I ragazi selvatici (doc, 2018), Il corpo dell'amore (coregia Pietro Balla, serie doc, 2019), Il guardiano di stambecchi (doc, 2020), 1974 1979. Le nostre idee (doc, 2020).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura: Pietro Balla, Monica Repetto.
Director of photography: Walter Balducci.
Editor: Adriano Mestichella.
Cast: Valeria Sanna, Sandy Balestra, Luciano Galluzzi, Silvia Ferreri, Antonella Scapin, Cinzia Gallia.
Production company: Zoefilm, via Adriatico 148, 10129 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-06-55283583, fax +39-06-9145123.
Director of photography: Walter Balducci.
Editor: Adriano Mestichella.
Cast: Valeria Sanna, Sandy Balestra, Luciano Galluzzi, Silvia Ferreri, Antonella Scapin, Cinzia Gallia.
Production company: Zoefilm, via Adriatico 148, 10129 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-06-55283583, fax +39-06-9145123.
