Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 26' 23''


A journey through contemporary poetry.

"Poetry is an infinite space that creates people's dreams and awakens the ego's secret mysteries. The video structures different linguistic plots through different poets. There is the harmonious visual quality utilized with Mario Luzi. There is the reduction of time to zero in the quick, spasmodic succession of images for Nanni Balestrini. Light and words are solidly anchored in this work. There is an endless questioning of reality through a kind of mind trip through the depths of the word" (Marco Nereo Rotelli).

Biography

film director

Igor Mendolia

Igor Mendolia (Turin, 1971). His short film, La voce come, competed in the 1999 Torino Film Festival. In 2001 he founded DigiZEN, an audiovisual production and post-production studio.

FILMOGRAFIA

In-Out (cm, 1992), La casa domotica (doc., 1998), Hollywood ritratto di un uomo (doc., 1998), Le patatine arara (doc., 1999).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, montaggio: Igor Mendolia.
Plot: Marco Rotelli.
Director of photography: Marco Di Castri.
Sound: Paolo Favaro.
Cast: Mario Luzi, Giuseppe Conte, Nanni Balestrini, Edoardo Sanguineti, Marco Guzzi, Maria Luisa Spaziani, Andrea Zanzotto, Valentino Zeichen, Maurizio Cucchi.
Production company: La Bottega dell'Immagine, corso Grosseto 350, 10122 Torino, tel. +39-011-4557905, fax +39-011-4557846, e-mail labottega@labottega.it.
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