An important three-day folk festival is held every five years near carnival time in the town of Sampeyre in Val Varaita at the foot of Monviso. It is rich in local traditions and has been jealously conserved throughout the centuries. The film tells the story of the 1982 festival through interviews with its leading figures.
"The film is structured with an eye towards rigorous ethnographic research that blends in with the rhythm of the festival in a natural way. What comes out of this is the choice to have a long film that mirrors the slow pace of the peasant and mountaineer world that is still tied in with a type of sensitivity that follows the rhythms of the succession of seasons and natural events rather than a conception of time that is abstract and mathematical, that thinks of time as individual pieces that are all the same and comparable to one another" (Paolo Gobetti).
Biography
film director
Paolo Gobetti
FILMOGRAFIA
Scioperi a Torino (1962, 35'), Lotta partigiana (1975, 60'), Dalla marcia su Roma a Piazzale Loreto (1975, 129'), Cudine 17 novembre 1944 (1979, 18'), Un'altra Italia nella bandiere dei lavoratori (1980, 18'), Spagna 1936-1937 (1978-1981, 55'), La Bahìo - Festa di una valle occitana (1982, 80') , Lu viol (1983, 65'), Le prime bande (1984, 60'), Incontri (1985, 60'), Como libera: il film e la memoria (1986, 45'), La battaglia di Pertuso (1987, 40'), Al tempo delle scale (1987, 25'), Spagna anni Trenta (1990, 50'), Racconto interrotto (1992, 50'), Le stagioni della Resistenza (in dieci quadri e un prologo) (1995, 130').
Cast
& Credits
Director of photography: Mauro Zannerini, Paola Olivetti, Franco Mazzoccoli, Mario Maggiorotti, Giuseppe Risso, Cecilia Pennacini.
Sound: Nadia Bestoso, Melina Bracco, Paolo Gobetti, Emanuela Piovano, Daniela Rubat Borel.
Editor: Cecilia Pennacini, Paola Olivetti.
Segretarie di produzione: Melina Bracco, Laura Operti.
Commento: Piero Dematteis, Cecco Dematteis.
Cast: la Bahìo di Sampeyre con i suoi Abb` e tutta la popolazione, le famiglie Garnero, Andreino, Jeannot, Rita, Liutno, Giraudo, Cappelliere, i Mori.
Production company: Cooperativa 28 dicembre, con la partecipazione delle associazioni Soulestrelh e Lu Viol e il contributo della Comunit` Economica Europea.