Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 20'
Boys and girls of the Julius Caesar High School in Rome describe someone that they know very closely. Who are they talking about? The name of their high school, which is named after the first great narrator of himself in the third person, answers this question already.
"This was made in connection with a course teaching audiovisual narrative techniques in a Roman secondary school. The video was written by the students themselves who appear as actors in the film. They recorded interviews and conversations in which they themselves were the protagonists. Then each of them worked out a text in the form of a screenplay in which they described themselves while speaking about themselves in the third person. The experiment had a "scholastic" nature. More importantly, it aims to try to record something about a very special moment - the passage from adolescence to something else, when it is very hard for youths to understand what they are, what they are becoming, and what they should do in order to catch other people's attention" (Mario Sesti).
Biography
film director
Mario Sesti
Mario Sesti (Messina, Italy, 1958) is a film critic and a documentary filmmaker. He directed, among others, The Lost Ending (2003), La voce di Pasolini (2005, codirected with Matteo Cerami), and the recent La voce di Berlinguer (2013, made with Teho Teardo). He managed the project Cinema Forever from 1998 to 2000, working on restoring several masterpieces of Italian cinema. He collaborated for thirteen years with the magazine “L’Espresso,” and he published biographies on filmmakers likes Nanni Moretti and Pietro Germi. He also wrote some thorough analyses of new Italian cinema and police movies, winning the Diego Fabbri Award in 2008 for In quel film c’è un segreto (published by Feltrinelli). In 2012 he started directing the Taormina Film Festival and he is one of the founding members and curators of the Rome Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
L’ultima sequenza (doc., 2003), La voce di Pasolini (coregia Matteo Cerami, doc., 2005), Fiamme di Gadda. A spasso con l’ingegnere (doc., 2013), La voce di Berlinguer (coregia Teho Teardo, doc., 2013), Senza Lucio (doc., 2014); La voce di Fantozzi (doc., 2017), Cinecittà - I mestieri del cinema. Bernardo Bertolucci: No End Travelling (doc., 2019), Mondo sexy (doc., 2019), Altri padri (2021).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Mario Sesti.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Alessandra Cao, Giulia Casavecchia, Gloria Costabile, Chiara Cuscani, Giorgia Ficorilli, Sara Fronda, Giuseppe Mariano, Amedeo Pergolini, Stefano Petti, Raffaello Potestio, Maria Cecilia Rizza.
Fotografia, suono: Andrea Giulio Sesti.
Editor: Michele Soffientini. Music: Mario Palma, Mario Sesti.
Cast: Alessandra Cao, Giulia Casavecchia, Gloria Costabile, Chiara Cuscani, Giorgia Ficorilli, Sara Fronda, Giuseppe Mariano, Amedeo Pergolini, Stefano Petti, Raffaello Potestio, Maria Cecilia Rizza.
Production company: T-Rex, piazza Stefano Jacini 23, 00191 Roma, tel. +39-06-36303557, fax +39-06-36307459.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Alessandra Cao, Giulia Casavecchia, Gloria Costabile, Chiara Cuscani, Giorgia Ficorilli, Sara Fronda, Giuseppe Mariano, Amedeo Pergolini, Stefano Petti, Raffaello Potestio, Maria Cecilia Rizza.
Fotografia, suono: Andrea Giulio Sesti.
Editor: Michele Soffientini. Music: Mario Palma, Mario Sesti.
Cast: Alessandra Cao, Giulia Casavecchia, Gloria Costabile, Chiara Cuscani, Giorgia Ficorilli, Sara Fronda, Giuseppe Mariano, Amedeo Pergolini, Stefano Petti, Raffaello Potestio, Maria Cecilia Rizza.
Production company: T-Rex, piazza Stefano Jacini 23, 00191 Roma, tel. +39-06-36303557, fax +39-06-36307459.