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18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
DOC 2000 Competition

BIKE BABA

BIKE BABA

Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 54'


Naga Baba Shiva Giri, called Bike Baba, is 59. He is wandering holy man who has been on the road since 1992 on a Hero Honda 100. He has already ridden 164,000 kilometers. Every year he crosses India from north to south, following the itineraries of Hindu spirituality. He is particular devoted and linked with the god, Shiva. Bike Baba is an ascetic who has given up the world and chosen making trips in a motorcycle as his form of meditation.

"We have followed Bike Baba for forty days crossing 4000 kilometers through India from Hyderabad, the city where he was born, to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, the extreme southernmost point of the country where three oceans meet" (Daria Menozzi).

Biography

film director

Daria Menozzi

Daria Menozzi (Modena, 1958) in 1986 founded VBR, a videoproduction Company and made various documentaries and video, in Italy and Africa. In 1988 she made A Dedication to Marguerite followed, in 1991, by her first feature film Flies in the head. From 1995 to 1999 she was involved with the making of Intermedia, a TV series which were documentaries and reports on the theme of multiethnic societies and the relationships between the Northern and the Southern Worlds. In 2000 she made Bike Baba in competition at the Turin Film Festival, and at the NAFA Festival. Now she is working on a documentary with the provisional title Probationary Days.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dedicato a Marguerite (cm, 1988), Le mosche in testa (1991), Intermedia (TV, 1995), Sprecare Sentimenti (video, 1997), L’ideogramma capovolto (video, 1998), Germano Almeida Scrittore (video, doc., 1999), Bike Baba (video, doc., 2000), Figli delle stelle (video, 2001), L’acqua in mezzo (video, 2002), Radio clandestina (video, 2004), Manooré (doc., 2005).

 

Cast

& Credits

Director: Daria Menozzi.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Olivo Barbieri, Daria Menozzi.
Director of photography: Olivo Barbieri.
Editor: Roberta Canepa.
Cast: Naga Baba Shiva Giri.
Production company and Italian distribution: Bianca Film, via Fedele Lampertico 7, 00191 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3296790, fax +39-06-3296791, e-mail biancafilm@flashnet.it.
Co-production: Telepiù, Milano.
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