19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Spottings 2001
ERRI DE LUCA. DOPO GENOVA (FILASTROCCHE SGANGHERATE)
Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 12'
Right after the dramatic events of the Genoa anti-G8 demonstrations, the newspaper "Il Manifesto" ran the doggerel rhymes of the author, Erri De Luca between the end of July and August, 2001. These texts were used as simple intertexts, but they also suggested something more to me. They influenced my choice of images during the editing of the great amount of footage shot on those days in Genoa and of archival material.
"I was looking for a higher language, something different from the mass media language of television and newspaper hard new reports that had overwhelmed our eyes, hearts, and brains on those days after Genoa. When I read Erri De Luca's rhymes, I was touched and I found myself in a poetic language that was undoubtedly exceptional and the source of my meditation" (Armando Ceste).
Biography
film director
Armando Ceste
Armando Ceste (Turin, 1942), after several experiences in underground cinema (his first short film, La lezione, was screened at the Festival del Cinema Indipendente Italiano in 1969 in Turin), in the beginning of the 70's he is one of the founders of Collettivo Cinema Militante in Turin. In the last years he has made several works, some of them in collaboration with the Archivio Audiovisivo del movimento Operaio e Demovratico in Rome. He has been artistic director at Valsusa FilmFest, film festival on the themes of historic memory and environment defense.
FILMOGRAFIA
La lezione (1969), I migliori anni della nostra vita (1987), Donato (1987), Nosferatu, ogni notte di fronte a me (1988), Das Rastel einer Strasse (1988), Morire d'amore (1988), Recita (1990), L'ultimo nastro (1991), Lontano dal golfo (1991), Jean-Marie Straub, la resistenza del cinema (1991), Finale di partita (1992), Marzo 1973 - I giorni della Fiat (1993), Due o tre cose (1994), Aria di golpe (1994), Milano 25 aprile (1994), Mai tardi (1996), Anna Karina. Il volto della Nouvelle Vague (1996), Le parole sono importanti (1996), Jean-Marie Straub. Lezione di cinema (1998), Viaggio alla fine del mondo (dove le storie vanno a finire) (1998), Rosso/Askatasuna (a proposito di un primo maggio di guerra) (1999), Romeo & Giulietta. Il gioco del film (2000), Abdellah e i suoi fratelli (2000), Erri De Luca. Dopo Genova (filastrocche sgangherate) (2001), Libera terra (2002), Fiatamlet (2003) Variazioni (doc, 2004).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Armando Ceste.
Director of photography: Arno Wagner.
Editor: Claudio Coloberti, Armando Ceste.
Sound: Cristina Mazza.
Cast: Erri De Luca.
Production company: AC/Cinema&Video, via Accademia Albertina 10, 10123 Torino, Italia, tel. e fax +39-011-8170250, e-mail arceste@tin.it.
Director of photography: Arno Wagner.
Editor: Claudio Coloberti, Armando Ceste.
Sound: Cristina Mazza.
Cast: Erri De Luca.
Production company: AC/Cinema&Video, via Accademia Albertina 10, 10123 Torino, Italia, tel. e fax +39-011-8170250, e-mail arceste@tin.it.