Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 29'
Getting acquainted with Fernando Di Leo, with his films and his filmmaking methods. The cinematographic craftsmanship in Italian cinema of the 1960's and '70's, when it was still possible to communicate with an attentive audience that cared about Italy's growing pains.
"Fernando's entire oeuvre is built around a type of cinema that loves to tell a story and that often transcends its commercial nature through form and poverty. In a certain sense, it is an ascetic cinema, based on low-cost inventions, instant editing, actors/stock characters, spur-of-the-moment ideas that need to be worked out in just a few minutes" (Marco Alessi).
Biography
film director
Marco Alessi
Marco Alessi (Palermo, 1973) lives in Bologna and Milan. He graduated from DAMS with a thesis on American musicals, has followed up his studies with courses in directing held by Abbas Kiarostami in Sicily, and was an assistant to Roberta Torri in Tano da Morire. He is a theatrical and movie director, has filmed documentaries and video clips, and participated with his first full-length film, aStromboli, at the Festival of Locarno in 1998.
FILMOGRAFIA
Passatempi (cm, 1996), La luna capovolta (1997, co-regia Micaela Di Carlo), Rom senz'acqua (doc., 1997, co-regia Anselmo De Filippis), aStromboli (1998), Il tempo che è trascorso (cm, video, 1998), Amor de mi vida (cm, video, 1998), Mai più (cm, video, 1999), Calendar (1999), Fernando Di Leo - Artigiano con pretese (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Marco Alessi.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Marco Alessi, Stefano Campanoni.
Director of photography: Stefano Savona, Hans Moserick.
Editor: Carom Selasi.
Sound: Cristiano Neri.
Production company: Stefano Campanoni per Ducafilm/ Futuro Film, via Turati 26, 20121 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-335-8447617, fax +39-02-29006295.
Italian distribution: Filippo D'Angelo per Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, Italia, tel. e fax +39-051-267150.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Marco Alessi, Stefano Campanoni.
Director of photography: Stefano Savona, Hans Moserick.
Editor: Carom Selasi.
Sound: Cristiano Neri.
Production company: Stefano Campanoni per Ducafilm/ Futuro Film, via Turati 26, 20121 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-335-8447617, fax +39-02-29006295.
Italian distribution: Filippo D'Angelo per Vitagraph, via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologna, Italia, tel. e fax +39-051-267150.