17° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Regional Competition 1999

HAI CHIUSO LA VALIGIA?

DID YOU CLOSE THE VALISE?

Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 32'


A movement in a room from one point to another. This movement only seems to be regular. Some characters enter and exit the field of vision as if they were following this perennial movement. A pendulum whose rhythm is measured by the blowing of the wind.

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: Francesco Ballo.
Collaborazione tecnica: Gianluca Chinnici, Pietro Renga.
Cast: Cesare Croce, Yoko Miura, Davide Ghelfi, Federico Bovo, Giacomo Agosti.
Production company: Francesco Ballo - MÂD Produzione, via della Chiusa 8, 20123 Milano, tel. +39-02-58313805.
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