Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 45'
There's something wrong with the way things are perceived: following up an incidental explosion, a different, unfriendly awareness is about taking over among strange. Misplaced, tele-visionary creatures, persuaded to be bodies, squares things their own odd maker who indoctrinates them on being or… vanishing.
"A mixture of powders (astrolite) is the metaphor of a pulverization of looks and voices, of an acoustic and visual space that is thrown off balance by an anomalous perception. In a extreme synthesis of cartoon strips and Beckett, residual existences give life to a sinister pantomime, seduced and oppressed by their own unreality. " (A. Matarazzo, C. M. Schirinzi).
Biography
film director
Antonello Matarazzo
Antonello Matarazzo (Avellino,1962)is a painter and videomaker. He has worked at Teatro Bellini in Catania as costume designer and assistant director. In 1990 he started working in the field of visual arts, with occasional stages in the USA. His works focus on the most recent research (Medialism) which tends to eliminate the distances between various media (photography, painting, video, etc.). His first short film, The Fable, (2000), has been screened at the 18th Bellaria Film Festival, produced by RAI 3, and broadcast on Fuoriorario. His videos have been screened at many national and international film festivals. He presents his film, Astrolite, at the 20th Turin Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Fable (cm, 2000), Dance Purge (cm, 2000), Flow (cm, 2000), Le cose vere (cm, 2001), Anno 2001: i Prioni sono tra noi (cm, 2001), Maria (cm, 2001), Mi chiamo Sabino (cm, 2001), Astrolite (mm, co-regia, 2002), WARH (2003), Miserere (cm, 2004), Apice (cm, 2004), Lovers (video, 2004).
Carlo Michele Schirinzi
Carlo Michele Schirinzi (Capo di Leuca, Lecce, Italy, 1974) is a video maker and artist. In 2004, his short All’erta! won an award at the Pesaro Film Festival, which then dedicated the 2005 retrospective to him. Over the years, the Torino Film Festival has presented much of his work: Astrolìte (2002), Il nido (Special Mention in 2003), Oligarchico (2007), Sonderbehandlung (2008), Notturno stenopeico (Best Italian Short in 2009), Mammaliturchi! (Special Mention in 2010), and Natura morta in giallo (2012). Eco da luogo scolpito was selected at the Venice International Film Festival. He presented his first feature film I resti di Bisanzio (2014) at Pesaro Film Festival and at Doclisboa.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
L’amanuense (cm, 2000), Il sepolcro (cm, 2000), Dè-tail (cm, 2001), Trappe (cm, 2001), Astrolìte (mm, 2002), Il nido (cm, 2003), Fuga da Nicea (cm, 2008), Notturno stenopeico (cm, 2009), Prospettiva in fuga (cm, 2009), Mammaliturchi! (cm, 2010), Frammenti da un confine (cm, 2010), Eco da luogo colpito (cm, 2011), Natura morta in giallo (cm, 2012), I resti di Bisanzio (2014), Eclisse senza cielo (mm, 2016), Deposizione in due atti (2014-15), Padrone dove sei (2019).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura e montaggio: Antonello Matarazzo, Carlo Michele Schirinzi.
Director of photography: Marco De Angelis.
Sound: Francesco Azzini.
Music: Pasquale Innarella.
Cast: enrico ghezzi, Gabriele Perretta, Massimo Borriello, Nunzia Di Somma, Michele De Prisco, Fara Vitali, Emilio Grillo, Luigi Cosi.
Production company: Astrolite: Associazione Culturale Arti Audiovisive, via Dante 16, 83100 Avellino, tel. +39-338-8517428, +39-0825-23515, www.astrolite.it, e-mail info@astrolite.it.
Director of photography: Marco De Angelis.
Sound: Francesco Azzini.
Music: Pasquale Innarella.
Cast: enrico ghezzi, Gabriele Perretta, Massimo Borriello, Nunzia Di Somma, Michele De Prisco, Fara Vitali, Emilio Grillo, Luigi Cosi.
Production company: Astrolite: Associazione Culturale Arti Audiovisive, via Dante 16, 83100 Avellino, tel. +39-338-8517428, +39-0825-23515, www.astrolite.it, e-mail info@astrolite.it.