Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 55'' 24'
This is portrait of Lorenzo, a Florentine artist who has been repeating the creation of the same work of art for more than twenty years: a pliant and pointed blue-yellow-red acrylic "thread." Like a modern Don Quixote, Lorenzo, a character on the edge of the official art world, maintains his ideas with stubbornness and conviction. He repeats his gestures, speeches, and actions on the street before a public made up of curious or indifferent passers-by. It is with a "thread" that Lorenzo shares a life, a family, and the spaces of his own home.
"Who has lost the thread? Who is responsible for his own getting lost? Was it lost at the crossroads where the infantile nature of people thirty or more meets the pollution of Disney in Florence? Did the producer's boyfriend or the film's own protagonist lose the thread with the almost sexual enjoyment of his own objectification? Or, what's more, did the director lose the thread when he could not retell the end of the film, C'eravamo tanto amati?" (Jonathan Nossiter).
Biography
film director
Jonathan Nossiter
Jonathan Nossiter is an American. Born in 1961, he now lives in New York after having spent some time in France, England, Italy, Greece, and India. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and the Art Institute of San Francisco. His films have appeared in numerous international film festivals, such as the festivals at Berlin, Toronto, Deauville and Locarno and the Sundance Film Festival. His short film dedicated to Arthur Penn was made for Telepiù's "Director on Directors" series. He worked as assistant director to Adrian Lyne for Fatal Attraction.
FILMOGRAFIA
Resident Alien (1992), Sunday (1997), Searching for Arthur (cm, 1997), Signs and Wonders (1999), Perdere il filo (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director and editor: Jonathan Nossiter.
Director of photography: Jonathan Nossiter, Duilio Ringressi.
Sound: Andrea Gurrieri, Dave Ellinwood.
Produzione, distribuzione e vendita all'estero: Silvia Lucchesi per Silvy Produzioni S.r.l., via del Castello 5, 50023 Impruneta (FI), Italia, tel. +39-055-208138, fax +39-055-208067, e-mail silvia.lucchesi@dada.it.
Co-production: Cooperativa del Festival dei Popoli, Firenze.
Director of photography: Jonathan Nossiter, Duilio Ringressi.
Sound: Andrea Gurrieri, Dave Ellinwood.
Produzione, distribuzione e vendita all'estero: Silvia Lucchesi per Silvy Produzioni S.r.l., via del Castello 5, 50023 Impruneta (FI), Italia, tel. +39-055-208138, fax +39-055-208067, e-mail silvia.lucchesi@dada.it.
Co-production: Cooperativa del Festival dei Popoli, Firenze.