Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 50'
"August, 1997. Two days of sets in the land of Otranto for Tonino De Bernardi and his crew. The news filters through the olive groves, stops in the bars, reaches the beach, and a beach umbrella refreshes it. The group guided by Tonino occupies the empty space inside a quarry in the Lecce area in Cursi and an abandoned lighthouse on the coast of Otranto. Opposite this lies Albania. Tonino slips in, fills his images with poetry and humanity, and creates his film. He has a very personal way of directing combining imagination, dream, and childhood on silent and generous sets, just like the south of these places. We are in Salentine Greece, frequently the natural theater of ethnic presence, of cultures, and peoples in the history of humanity. I guided the telecamera with a lot of discretion. In the middle of my shooting, my viewfinder broke, and so I was like a blind man. From that time on it was the telecamera that guided me and that was possible on Tonino's set" (Raffaele Schito).
Biography
film director
Rafeli Schito
Raffaele Schito (Casarano, Lecce; 1949) attended the Milan Civic Film School. He began to make experimental films in the 1970s. Since 1980 he has been working with Rai and many Italian and foreign private television stations. In 1982 his video, Fripp-botti, won the Filmaker award for experimentation. Since the late 1980's he has made many trips to the Balkans and, especially, to Albania, where he made several films, including Liri - la stagione dei fiori tristi, which was awarded a Silver Seagull at the Bellaria film festival. He has curated the annual film series on video art in Salento since 1985.
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, fotografia: Rafeli Schito.
Music: Opa-Cupa.
Cast: Rocco Castel, Fiorella De Bernardi, Tonino De Bernardi, Giulietta De Bernardi, Veronica De Bernardi, Enrico Ghezzi, Oronzo Marmone, Pasquale Pozzessere.
Production company: NTARTEI production, via Vigevano 32, 20144 Milano, tel. +39-02-8323004, fax +39-02-8378477.
Music: Opa-Cupa.
Cast: Rocco Castel, Fiorella De Bernardi, Tonino De Bernardi, Giulietta De Bernardi, Veronica De Bernardi, Enrico Ghezzi, Oronzo Marmone, Pasquale Pozzessere.
Production company: NTARTEI production, via Vigevano 32, 20144 Milano, tel. +39-02-8323004, fax +39-02-8378477.