20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
European Perspectives 2002

10 - Uma série de 4 curtas metragens

10 - Uma série de 4 curtas metragens
by Miguel Gomes, Ciprì & Maresco, Christoph Girardet, Sandro Aguilar, Matthias Müller
Country: Portugal, Italy, Germany
Year: 2002
Duration: 55'


10.1 REMAINS
Everything threatens to crack and yet this devouring march happened long ago in the past. There is no more moaning in the room next door, the wind has stopped blowing on the stairs, the air particles throw themselves against each other, but it's only void against void.

10.2 DIECI MINUTI ALLA FINE
TEN MINUTES TILL THE END Technical test on the apocalypse in Palermo. There are some men in a cave while we hear explosions outside, far away. Perhaps a war, which nobody knows about. Some of the few survivors move on a desolated and uninhabited land. Images of cemeteries and deserted landscapes pass by, while the survivors start behaving absurdly like animals.

10.3 KALKITOS
A 20 year old young man asks some kifs if he can play football with them. They think it's weird and ask him how old he is. When he answers "I'm ten", he is laughed at. He withdraws himself, lonely and feeling sorry for himself. But he is going to find another group of kids who are different, just like him…

10.4 BEACON
A montage of locations shots filmed at ten different places around the world. These sites are connected by the fact that each is located by the sea.

Biography

film director

Sandro Aguilar

Sandro Aguilar (Portugal, 1974) studied cinema at the Escuela Superior de Teatro e Cinema. In 1998 he founded the production company O Som e a Fúria with Luis Urbano. In 1999 he participated to the Locarno Film Festival with his second short film, Estou Perto, receiving the Pardi di domani Award. Sem Movimento (2000) was selected by the Venice Film Festival, where it earned a special mention. He made Remains in 2002 and A Serpente in 2005, both of which were presented in Locarno. His debut feature film, A Zona (2008), was presented at the Torino Film Festival, as was his next project Mercúrio, which also participated to many other international film festivals, winning the highest honors at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

O Cadáver Esquisito (cm, 1996), Estou Perto (cm, 1998), Sem Movimento (cm, 2000), Corpo e Meio (cm, 2001), Remains (cm, 2002), A Serpente (cm, 2005), Arquivo (cm, 2007), A Zona (2008), Voodoo (mm, 2010), Mercúrio (cm, 2010), And They Went (cm, 2011), Sinais de Serenidade por Coisas sem Sentido (cm, 2012).


Christoph Girardet

Christoph Girardet (Langenhagen, Germany, 1966) studied fine arts at the Braunschweig School of Art. He started producing video installations in 1989 and started his collaboration with Matthias Müller in 1999. Solo exhibitions of his work have taken place at institutions such as the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna and the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. He now lives and works in Hannover.

FILMOGRAFIA

Christoph Girardet:
Schwertkampf (cm, 1991), Fieberrot (cm, 1993), Release (cm, 1997), Scratch (cm, 2001), Absence (cm, 2002), Nero (cm, 2006).

Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller:
Manual (cm, 2002), Beacon (cm, 2002), 10 - Uma série de 4 curta metragens (2002), Play (cm, 2003), Mirror (cm, 2003), Kristall (cm, 2006), Contre-jour (cm, 2008), Maybe Siam (cm, 2009), Meteor (cm, 2013), Cut (cm, 2013).

Miguel Gomes

Miguel Gomes (Lisbon, Portugal, 1972) worked as a film critic from 1996 to 2000, writing for the daily “Público.” In 1999, he directed his first short, Entretanto, which was presented at the Torino Film Festival, as was his next short, Cântico das Criaturas (2006) and the feature-length Tabu (2012). That same year, the Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to his opus in the section Onde. Gomes debuted in feature films with A Cara que Mereces (2004), which was followed by Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, and Tabu (2012), which won the Alfred Bauer Award and the FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2013, he participated at the Venice Film Festival with the short Redemption, and he returned to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs with As Mil e uma Noites. 

FILMOGRAFIA

Entretanto (cm, 1999), Inventário de Natal (cm, 2000), 31 (cm, 2001), Kalkitos (cm, 2002) Pre-Evolution Soccer’s One Minute After a Golden Goal in the Master League (cm, 2003), A Cara que Mereces (2004), Cântico das Criaturas (cm, 2006), Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), Tabu (2012), Redemption (cm, 2013), Arabian Nights (2015).

Matthias Müller

Matthias Müller (Bielefeld, Germany, 1961) studied Arts and German Literature at the Bielefeld University. He has been guest professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and since 2003 he is professor for Experimental Film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. As a curator, he organized several avant-garde film events, such as the Found Footage Film Festival.


FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

 

Matthias Müller:

Home Stories (cm, 1990), Sleepy Heaven (cm, 1993), Vacancy (cm, 1998), Phantom (cm, 2001), Album (cm, 2004).

Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller:

Manual (cm, 2002), Beacon (cm, 2002), 10 - Uma série de 4 curta metragens (2002), Play (cm, 2003), Mirror (cm, 2003), Kristall (cm, 2006), Contre-jour (cm, 2008), Maybe Siam (cm, 2009), Meteor (cm, 2013), Cut (cm, 2013).

Daniele Ciprì

Daniele Cipri (Palermo, 1962) and Franco Maresco (Palermo, 1958) start working together in 1986, putting together "micromontages" using fragments from films and other short video works. Their Cinico TV shorts were aired on Enrico Ghezzi's Fuori Orario in 1990. These were followed by stints for Blob and Avanzi. Their first feature-length film, Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995) depicts the desolate urban sprawl of Palermo. Since then they made two more feature-lenght films: Totò che visse due volte (1998) and Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003). They debuted in theatre in 2002 with Palermo può attendere for the Biennale di Venezia. In 2004 they presented in Venice their Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano - La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio.

FILMOGRAFIA

Il lato estremo del visibile (cm, 1986), Così (cm, 1989), Pasta e patate (1989), Mai (cm, 1989), Isole comprese (cm, 1990), Illuminati (1990), Loro di Palermo (cm, 1990), Omaggio a E. (cm, 1990), Più liberi con la mafia (1990), Seicortosei (1991), Addio o a rivederci (1991), Santa Maria (1991), Home (1991), Stanley's Room No. 1 e No. 2 (1991), Pel di carota (1991), Verso Vertov: frammenti necropolitani (1991), Martin a Little... (1992), Il corridoio della paura (1992), Muri (1992), Cani (1992), Keller (1992), Blob Cinico Tv (1992), Publimania (1994), Cielito lindo (1995), Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995), Grazie Lia - Breve inchiesta a proposito di Santa Rosalia (1996), A Memoria (1996), Totò che visse due volte (1998), Steve Plays Duke (1999), Noi e il Duca (1999), El sentimento cinico de la vida. Dieci anni di Cinico Tv (1989-1999) (1999), Ai Rotoli (2000), Il ritorno di Cagliostro (video, 2000), Tutti for Louis - Omaggio a Louis Armstrong (2000), Miles gloriosus (2001), Siamo davvero pietosi (2001), Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003), Che fine ha fatto Pino Grisanti? - Ciprì e Maresco alla ricerca di un maestro incompreso (cm, 2003), Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano - La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio (2004), L'Opè incatenato (cm, 2004).

Franco Maresco

Daniele Cipri (Palermo, 1962) and Franco Maresco (Palermo, 1958) start working together in 1986, putting together "micromontages" using fragments from films and other short video works. Their Cinico TV shorts were aired on Enrico Ghezzi's Fuori Orario in 1990. These were followed by stints for Blob and Avanzi. Their first feature-length film, Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995) depicts the desolate urban sprawl of Palermo. Since then they made two more feature-lenght films: Totò che visse due volte (1998) and Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003). They debuted in theatre in 2002 with Palermo può attendere for the Biennale di Venezia. In 2004 they presented in Venice their Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano - La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio.

FILMOGRAFIA

Il lato estremo del visibile (cm, 1986), Così (cm, 1989), Pasta e patate (1989), Mai (cm, 1989), Isole comprese (cm, 1990), Illuminati (1990), Loro di Palermo (cm, 1990), Omaggio a E. (cm, 1990), Più liberi con la mafia (1990), Seicortosei (1991), Addio o a rivederci (1991), Santa Maria (1991), Home (1991), Stanley's Room No. 1 e No. 2 (1991), Pel di carota (1991), Verso Vertov: frammenti necropolitani (1991), Martin a Little... (1992), Il corridoio della paura (1992), Muri (1992), Cani (1992), Keller (1992), Blob Cinico Tv (1992), Publimania (1994), Cielito lindo (1995), Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995), Grazie Lia - Breve inchiesta a proposito di Santa Rosalia (1996), A Memoria (1996), Totò che visse due volte (1998), Steve Plays Duke (1999), Noi e il Duca (1999), El sentimento cinico de la vida. Dieci anni di Cinico Tv (1989-1999) (1999), Ai Rotoli (2000), Il ritorno di Cagliostro (video, 2000), Tutti for Louis - Omaggio a Louis Armstrong (2000), Miles gloriosus (2001), Siamo davvero pietosi (2001), Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003), Che fine ha fatto Pino Grisanti? - Ciprì e Maresco alla ricerca di un maestro incompreso (cm, 2003), Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano - La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio (2004), L'Opè incatenato (cm, 2004).

Cast

& Credits

Production company: Vila do Conde Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens.
Co-production: O Som e a Fúria/Cinico Cinema/Müller-Girardet.
Foreign sales agent: Agência da Curta Metragem, apartado 214, 4481-911 Vila do Conde, Portugal, tel. +351-252-646683, e-mail agencia@curtasmetragens.pt.
10.1 REMAINS
Portogallo/Portugal, 2002, Betacam, 12', col.

Director: Sandro Aguilar.
Sceneggiatura, fotografia e montaggio: Sandro Aguilar.
Sound: Miguel Martins, Sandro Aguilar.


10.2 DIECI MINUTI ALLA FINE
Portogallo-Italia/Portugal-Italy, 2002, Betacam, 10', b/n

Director: Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco.
Sceneggiatura e montaggio: Sandro Aguilar.
Director of photography: Daniele Ciprì.


10.3 KALKITOS Portogallo/Portugal, 2002, Betacam, 18', b/n

Director and screenplay: Miguel Gomes.
Screenplay: Miguel Gomes.
Director of photography: João Nicolau.
Montaggio e suono: João Nicolau, Miguel Gomes.


10.4 BEACON
Portogallo-Germania/Portugal-Germany, 2002, Betacam, 15', col.

Director: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller.
Screenplay: da un testo di Mike Hoolboom.
Fotografia, montaggio e suono: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller.
Voice: Allison Plath-Moseley.


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