Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 17'
In early May, 2001, work began on the building of a sign reading "Hollywood" in a Palermo garbage dump. This was an event connected with the Venice Biennial of the Arts performed by the contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan. It was as if the letters themselves had the power to evoke cinematic imagination. The workers who are constructing the gigantic structure became actors.
"I need two billion lire to make a film" (Monica Castiglioni).
Biography
film director
Monica Castiglioni
Monica Castiglioni (Mantua, 1964) graduated from the Milan Polytechnic University in architecture in 1991. In 1998 she won a grant to make a short film in Stuttgart. In 1998 her short, Superzero, won second prize at the 15th Torino Film Festival as well as the Best Editing Award at the International Film Festival Civitavideo at Civitanova Marche.
FILMOGRAFIA
L'uomo di carta (cm, 1993), Il sogno giallo (cm, 1994), Untitled (cm, 1994), Adattamenti (cm, 1995), Autolesionismo (cm, 1996), White Traffic (cm, 1996), Superzero (cm, 1997), Slalom (cm, 1998), Rita incontra un'amica (cm, 1999), Sogni (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Monica Castiglioni.
Director of photography: Cesare Danese, Francesco Comandé.
Editor: Daniela Ramon.
Cast: Calogero Runfolo, Alice Mocellin.
Production company: Maria Grazia Perria per Fuori Formato, via Previati 33, 20149 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-48028417, fax +39-02-48005392, e-mail fuoriformato@tin.it.
Director of photography: Cesare Danese, Francesco Comandé.
Editor: Daniela Ramon.
Cast: Calogero Runfolo, Alice Mocellin.
Production company: Maria Grazia Perria per Fuori Formato, via Previati 33, 20149 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-48028417, fax +39-02-48005392, e-mail fuoriformato@tin.it.