17° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Spottings 1999

FARRO NELLA NOTTE: ZUPPE DI SIGNIFICATI

FARRO NELLA NOTTE: ZUPPE DI SIGNIFICATI

Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 44'


"Activity fragments but never film fragging: premature introspection?
Exaggerated expectation ? Have we already gotten old?
The burn I carry, too - I cannot get rid
of not being thought a boy/girl kid.
Produced by us, distributed by Vitagraph of Bologna, except/'cept Toomuchapolitan" (Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza).

Biography

film director

Flavia Mastrella

Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza are the authors of theatrical and cinematographic works. Their productions have won many prizes at the most important national comedy festivals. In 1996 they presented the feature film EsCoriandoli at the Festival in Venice. At the same time, they began working with the Teatro Stabile in the Marche region. Rezza is also a novelist, and Mastrella is a photographer and sculptor.

FILMOGRAFIA

Filmografia essenziale / Essential Filmography
Suppietij (cm, 1991), Torpore internazionale (cm, 1993), Praeoccupatio (cm, 1993), De civitate rei (cm, 1994), Evoloutio (cm, 1994), Schizzopatia (cm, 1995), Raptus (cm, 1995), Zero a zero (cm, 1995), Represso (cm, 1995), EsCoriandoli (1996), Critico e critici (cm, 1996), Porte (cm, 1997), Hai mangiato? (cm, 1997), Virus (cm, 1997), Angeli negli occhi di Alberto (cm, 1998), Michelangelo (cm, 1999), Troppolitani (cm, 1999), Turo (cm, 1999), Delitto sul Po (2001).

Antonio Rezza

(Novara, 1965) is a stage and film writer, novelist, and performer. Since the early 1990s, he has made numerous works – including five fiction feature films, a documentary, and over thirty shorts for cinema and TV – almost always in collaboration with Flavia Mastrella. The two of them received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Theatre Festival, and the “Rosa d'Oro della Milanesiana” award.

FILMOGRAFIA

La Beata mancata (cm, 1991), Fratello Kraus (cm, 1991), Il vecchio dentro (cm, 1992), Suppietij (cm, 1991), La divina provvidenza (cm, 1991), Larva (cm, 1993), Confusus (1992), Preoccupatio (cm, 1993), L’orrore di vivere (cm, 1993), Torpore internazionale (cm, 1993), Il piantone (cm, 1993), Escoriandoli (1994),  Evolutio (cm, 1994), De civitate rei (cm, 1994), Mongana (cm, 1995), Represso SVHS (cm, 1995), Il telefonetto (cm, 1995), Zero a zero (cm, 1995), Psicosi multipla (cm, 1995), Raptus (cm, 1995), Fiorenzo (cm, 1995), Schizzopatia (cm, 1996), Delitto sul Po (1996), Troppolitani (cm, 1997-2000), Porte (cm, 1997), Virus (cm, 1997), L’handicappato (cm, 1997), Hai mangiato? (cm, 1997), Angeli negli occhi di Alberto (cm, 1998), Il Mosè Michelangelo (cm, 1999), Fummo (cm, 1999), Turo (cm, 1999), Milano, Via Padova (doc, 2001), Fotofinish 2 (2006), Il passato è il mio bastone (cm, 2008), Nell'aldilà (cm, 2008), Ottimismo democratico (2008), Troppolitani Fuori dove? (cm, 2010), Samp (2016), Molossi (cm, 2020), Autoritratto (cm, 2020), Il cristo in gola (2022).

Cast

& Credits

L'ORRORE DI VIVERE
1993, 2'30", b/n
Director: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza.
Production company: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza, via Villa Neroniana 10, 00142 Anzio (Roma), tel. +39-06-9844836.
Italian distribution: Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, tel. +39-051-267150.

Due persone dormono fino a decomporsi.

THE HORROR OF LIVING
Two people sleep until they decompose.

ZERO A ZERO
1995, 2', b/n
Director: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza.
Production company: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza, via Villa Neroniana 10, 00142 Anzio (Roma), tel. +39-06-9844836.
Italian distribution: Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, tel. +39-051-267150.

Genitori batte amici due a zero.

ZERO TO ZERO
Parents beat friends 2-0.

PORTE
1997, 1'30", b/n
Director: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza, Armando Novara.
Production company: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza, via Villa Neroniana 10, 00142 Anzio (Roma), tel. +39-06-9844836.
Italian distribution: Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, tel. +39-051-267150.

Un uomo chiude le stesse porte aperte da Kafka.

DOORS
A man closes the same doors opened by Kafka.

TROPPOLITANA
1999, 26', col.

Regia e ideazione: Annamaria Catrical`, Stefano Coletta, Flavia Mastrella e Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza.
Production company: Rai, viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma, tel. +39-06-31351.

Interviste a corpo libero nella metropolitana di Roma condotte e galoppate da Antonio Rezza.

TOOMUCHAPOLITAN
No-holds-barred interviews in the Rome subway conducted and galloped by Antonio Rezza.

HAI MANGIATO?
1997, 2', b/n
Director: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza, Armando Novara.
Production company: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza, via Villa Neroniana 10, 00142 Anzio (Roma), tel. +39-06-9844836.
Italian distribution: Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, tel. +39-051-267150.

Una donna ingozza il figlio per possederlo.

HAVE YOU EATEN?
A woman swallows her son in order to possess him.

FUMMO (VIDEO LETTURA
1999, 1'30", b/n
Director: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza, Ellisabetta Sgarbi, Alberto Pezzotta.
Production company: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza, via Villa Neroniana 10, 00142 Anzio (Roma), tel. +39-06-9844836.
Italian distribution: Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, tel. +39-051-267150.

Video lettura di Tisquamo.

WE WERE (VIDEO READING)
Video reading of I'll scale you.

MICHELANGELO
1999, 1'30", b/n
Director: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza, Armando Novara, Fiore Leveque, Massimiliano Leveque.
Production company: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza, via Villa Neroniana 10, 00142 Anzio (Roma), tel. +39-06-9844836.
Italian distribution: Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, tel. +39-051-267150.

Michelangelo sulla torretta non ci deve andare.

MICHELANGELO
Michelangelo shouldn't go on the turret.
TROPPOLITANI-FRANCESE
1999, 5', col.
Regia e ideazione: Annamaria Catrical`, Stefano Coletta, Flavia Mastrella e Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza.
Production company: Rai, viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma, tel. +39-06-31351.

Striscia e corpo morto condotte e galoppate.

FRENCH TOOMUCHAPOLITAN
Slithering and dead-bodying conducted and galloped.

SHOW GIRLS
1997, 1'30", col.
Director: Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza.
Cast: Antonio Rezza.
Production company: Tele+, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, tel. +39-02-700271, fax +39-02-70027201.

Commenti cinematografici a sfogo ironico realizzati per Tele+

SHOW GIRLS
Film comments that let off ironic steam and that were made for Tele+.
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