Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 15'
Pasolini chose the actors for his film Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma by taking them "off the street", as usual. He had to find people who were willing to represent the humiliation of the body, the annihilation of the person. The screen tests of Salò made a strong impression on spectators because of their lucidity and their violence. These screen tests were repeated on aspiring actors today, young men and women who were later followed around in their everyday lives on the outskirts of Rome in a true study of the homologation of bodies and lives which Pasolini denounced with the atrocities of his last film.
Biography
film director
Guido Chiesa
Guido Chiesa (Turin, 1959) moves
to USA in 1983 where he works for Jim Jarmush, Amos Poe, Michael Cimino and
Nicolas Roeg. Back to Europe, in 1990 he directs his first long feature film,
Il caso Martello, winner of the Grolla d'Oro at the Mostra del Cinema in
Venice as best first work. His second long feature, Babylon, has won the
FIPRESCI prize at the Turin Film Festival. He has made some of the most
important historical documentaries in Italy, like: Partigiani, on the
memories and the meaning of Resistance in Italy; Nascita di una
democrazia, on the making of the Italian Constitution. In 2000, his Il
partigiano Johnny is screened at the Mostra d'Arte Cinematografica in
Venice.
FILMOGRAFIA
Give Me a
Spell (cm, 1985), Black Harvest (cm, 1986), Il caso Martello
(1991), Civiltà (cm, 1992), Il tempo dei sogni (cm, 1993),
Babylon (1994), Memorie da una fabbrica (1994), Torino in guerra:
1940-1945 (1995), 25 aprile: la memoria inquieta (1995), Quei
momenti eroici (1988-1995) (cm, 1995), Materiale resistente (1995,
co-regia Davide Ferrario), Rane culatelli & lucciole: la pianura di
Bertolucci (1996), Ritratti d'autore: i fratelli Taviani (1996),
Partigiani (1997, co-regia Davide Ferrario, Antonio Leotti, Daniele
Vicari), Petali di candore Marlene Kuntz '96-'97 (1997), Nascita di
una democrazia (1997), Volare - La grande trasformazione (1998),
Un giorno di fuoco (1998), Una questione privata. Vita di Beppe Fenoglio (1998), Non mi basta mai (1999/2000, co-regia Daniele Vicari), Il
partigiano Johnny (2000), Provini per un massacro (2000), Alice è
in paradiso (2002), Sono stati loro. 48 ore a Novi Ligure (doc.,
2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Guido Chiesa.
Director of photography: Francesco Cavazza.
Editor: Luca Gasparini, Marco Spoletini.
Voice: Franco «Bifo» Berardi.
Sound: Maricetta Lombardo.
Music: Giuseppe Napoli.
Cast: Lucrezia Romana Barbieri Hermitto, Giulia Bevilacqua, Marco Casciotti, Simone Cori, Raphael Leonotti, Marco Misuraca, Amedeo Monteiro, Agnese Rekwirowicz, Sara Salvatori, Angelica Toschi, Erica Ubaldi.
Production company and Italian distribution: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, e-mail fandangodoc@tin.it.
Co-production: Telepiù, Milano.
Director of photography: Francesco Cavazza.
Editor: Luca Gasparini, Marco Spoletini.
Voice: Franco «Bifo» Berardi.
Sound: Maricetta Lombardo.
Music: Giuseppe Napoli.
Cast: Lucrezia Romana Barbieri Hermitto, Giulia Bevilacqua, Marco Casciotti, Simone Cori, Raphael Leonotti, Marco Misuraca, Amedeo Monteiro, Agnese Rekwirowicz, Sara Salvatori, Angelica Toschi, Erica Ubaldi.
Production company and Italian distribution: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, e-mail fandangodoc@tin.it.
Co-production: Telepiù, Milano.