UN POSTO AL MONDO

Mario Martone

(Naples, 1959), theatrical and film director, began his activity in 1977, in the avant-garde climate of the times, and founded the group Falso Movimento, which created performances that combined elements of theater, cinema and visual arts. Ten years later, he founded Teatri Uniti, a company that promotes encounters between Neapolitan artists of the new generation, and which produced his films independently. His first feature film, Morte di un matematico napoletoano, won the Jury's Grand Prize in Venice in 1992. His later films, L'Amore molesto and Teatro di guerra, were both presented at Cannes. He has directed both classic theater and lyrical theater. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the director of the Teatro di Roma, where he carried out radical changes in the programming, giving more space to the arts and to the "new theater". He has also inaugurated a new performance area, the India, by recuperating an old, abandoned factory along the Tiber River.

FILMOGRAFIA

Nella città barocca (doc., 1984), Morte di un matematico napoletano (1992), Rasoi (mm, 1993), Lucio Amelio/Terrae Motus (doc., 1993), Veglia (doc., 1993), Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita (cm, ep di Miracoli – Storie per corti, 1994), L’unico paese al mondo (regia collettiva, 1994), L’amore molesto (1995), Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller (doc., 1996), Una storia Saharawi (doc., 1996), La salita (cm, ep di I Vesuviani, 1997), La terra trema (coregia/co-director, Jacopo Quadri, doc., 1998), Appunti da Santarcangelo (doc., 1998), Teatro di guerra (1998), Una disperata vitalità (1998), Un posto al mondo (coregia/co-director, Jacopo Quadri, doc., 2000) Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano (doc., 2001), L’odore del sangue (2004), Caravaggio – L’ultimo tempo (mm, doc., 2004), Noi credevamo (2010), La meditazione di Hayez (cm, doc., 2011), Il giovane favoloso (2014), Capri-Revolution (2018), Il sindaco del rione Sanità (2019), Qui rido io (2021), Nostalgia (2022), Laggiù qualcuno mi ama (doc., 2023), Mimmo Jodice. Senza tempo (mm, doc., 2023).

Jacopo Quadri

Jacopo Quadri (Milan, Italy, 1964) graduated from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome. He worked as an editor for Mario Martone’s movies, including Il giovane favoloso (2014). He collaborated with major filmmakers the like of Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bechis, Paolo Virzì, Zhang Yuan, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Francesca Archibugi, and Gianfranco Rosi. As a filmmaker, he made the documentary Voci distanti dal mare (Saharawi) with Antonietta De Lillo e Patrizio Esposito, followed by La terra trema and Un posto al mondo, which he made with Mario Martone. He also directed several short films. As president of the association Ubu per Franco Quadri, in 2013 he founded Ubulibri srl, an ideal continuation of the publishing house Edizioni Ubulibri. In 2014 La scuola d’estate was presented at Torino Film Festival in the section Festa Mobile.

FILMOGRAFIA

Statici 1 (cm, 1991), Statici 2 (cm, 1993), Statici 3 (cm, 1996), Statici 5 (cm, 1997), Statici (cm, 1997), Voci distanti dal mare (Saharawi) (coregia/codirectors Antonietta De Lillo, Patrizio Esposito, doc., 1997), La terra trema (coregia/codirector Mario Martone, 1998), Un posto al mondo (coregia/codirector Mario Martone, 2000), Marisa (cm, 2000), La scuola d’estate (doc., 2014), Il paese dove gli alberi volano (coregia/codirector Davide Barletti, mm, 2015), Lorello e Brunello (doc., 2017).