Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 22'
A look at Italian "borderline" landscapes that have nothing to do with bella Italia - the well-known, tourist Italy that foreigners and visitors are used to seeing. This is a journey throughout the peninsula. It visits places that have been marked by the deep transformations that people have wrecked on it, very often without any prior design or planning that could have led to anything positive. These are places that are, in a certain way, abandoned and condemned to their own metamorphoses.
"The concept of perception is of fundamental importance in the representation of the landscape. 'Going for walks is a very important practice in life. It is a pause in respect to acting that allows us to immerse ourselves in the landscape, to look at it with a distanced eye, to enjoy its multiple facets, to touch it with our hands, and so to say, to caress it and breathe with its own breath.' (Eugenio Turri, Landscape as Theater)" (Salvo Cuccia).
Biography
film director
Salvo Cuccia
Salvo Cuccia (Palermo, Italy, 1951) conducts research in video art, fiction, and new forms of documentaries. He has made approximately one hundred works (videos, shorts, documentaries, installations, performances). In 2005, Martin Scorsese presented his documentary Détour De Seta at the Tribeca Festival. He is the creator and artistic director of the series ALBASUITE - 9 Docs about Arbëreshë culture. In 2013, his documentary Summer 82 When Zappa Came to Sicily was presented out of competition at the 70th Venice Film Festival. In 2015, he made his first fiction feature film, Lo scambio.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Duo with Peter Kowald (cm, 1993), Angelica (doc., 995), Palermo (doc., 1996), Un sogno di lumaca (cm, 1995), Cieli altissimi retrocedenti (doc., 1998), Ce ne ricorderemo, di questo pianeta (doc., 2000), Détour De Seta (doc., 2004), Rockarbëresh (doc., 2007), Fuori Rotta (doc., 2008), Summer 82 When Zappa Came to Sicily (doc., 2013), Il soldato innamorato (doc., 2015), Lo scambio (2015), La pelle del tempo (cm, 2019).
Cast
& Credits
Regia e progetto: Salvo Cuccia.
Coordinamento: Antonello Miggianu.
Director of photography: Angelo Strano.
Editor: Daniele Randazzo.
Elaborazione del suono: Mario Bajardi.
Producer: Eleonora Cordaro, Metrodora Produzioni.
Production company: Regione Siciliana, Regione Sardegna, Unione Europea (Progetto Interreg IIC), C.R.I.C.D., piazza Virginio 32, 90141 Palermo, tel. +39-091-6967940, fax +39-091-585608.
Coordinamento: Antonello Miggianu.
Director of photography: Angelo Strano.
Editor: Daniele Randazzo.
Elaborazione del suono: Mario Bajardi.
Producer: Eleonora Cordaro, Metrodora Produzioni.
Production company: Regione Siciliana, Regione Sardegna, Unione Europea (Progetto Interreg IIC), C.R.I.C.D., piazza Virginio 32, 90141 Palermo, tel. +39-091-6967940, fax +39-091-585608.