Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 150'
Two years after performing his show Ustica, Balata in Forma di Teatro for the first time in Bologna, Marco Paolini performs it again in Gibellina. His face and his words mix in with the story, which this time is being offered in an ideal setting, Gibellina. Right there, just a few kilometers away, is Ustica, a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Italian history.
"When Marco suggested making a film out of his show about Ustica, I asked myself: how can we add a cinematographic dimension without betraying the rigor and the strength of his performance? Il Cretto by Alberto Burri, which is at Gibellina, is so abstract and so terribly rooted to the very location of the earthquake, that it offered us an unrepeatable key. It became both the deuteragonist and the visual means by which I was able to make a movie without losing my focus on theater. Moreover, much of the filming took place in a thunderstorm, which not only made everything much more dramatic, but transformed the performance into a true adventure, with interruptions and makeshift camera work. It was a sort of challenge in which Marco's and the public's participation was truly touching" (Davide Ferrario).
Biography
film director
Davide Ferrario
(Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Italy, 1956) graduated in Anglo-American literature. In the beginning of the 1980s he works with different cinema magazines and organizes film festivals and events. He is the author of many essays on cinema, of novels and several screenplays. He has directed short films and documentaries, and, among the long feature films, we would like to mention La fine della notte, Tutti giù per terra, based on the novel by Giuseppe Culicchia, and Guardami, screened in Venice in 1999. His novel Fade to Black, with fiction figure of Orson Welles, has been translated in many languages and in 2006 became an Oliver Parker’s film production of the same title. He partecipated at the Torino Film Festival with several titles, among which Materiale resistente (1995), codirected with Guido Chiesa, Sexx (2016), and Cento anni (2017). In 2020 he presented at the Festival the documentary feature Nuovo cinema paralitico (2020), and the following year the feature Just Noise.
FILMOGRAFIA
Non date da mangiare agli animali (cm, 1987), La fine della notte (1989), Lontano da Roma (doc, 1991), Anime fiammeggianti (1994), A Rimini (cm, 1995), Il figlio di Zelig (cm, 1995), Materiale resistente (co-regia Guido Chiesa, doc, 1995), Confidential Report (doc, 1996), Estate in città (cm, 1996), Partigiani (doc, 1997), Tutti giù per terra (1997), Figli di Annibale (1998), Sul quarantacinquesimo parallelo (doc, 1998), Guardami (1999), Comunisti (doc, 1999), Linea di confine (doc, 2000), La rabbia (doc, 2000), Le strade di Genova (doc, 2001), Fine amore: mai (doc, 2002), I Tigi a Gibellina (doc, 2002), Mondonuovo (doc, 2003), Dopo mezzanotte (2003), Se devo essere sincera (2004), La strada di Levi (doc, 2006), Tutta colpa di Giuda (2009), Piazza Garibaldi (doc, 2012), La luna su Torino (2014), La zuppa del demonio (doc, 2014), Accademia Carrara: il museo riscoperto (doc, 2015), Sexxx (doc., 2016), Cento anni (doc., 2017), Nuovo cinema paralitico (docufilm, 2020), Blood on the Crown (2021), Boys (2021), Umberto Eco - La biblioteca del mondo (doc, 2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Davide Ferrario.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Daniele Del Giudice, Marco Paolini.
Director of photography: Giuseppe Baresi.
Editor: Ilaria Fraioli.
Cast: Marco Paolini.
Production company: Jolefilm, via Medici 9, 30138 Padova, Italia, tel. +39+049-8718175, fax +39+049-8735263, e-mail info@jolefilm.it; Telepiù, Milano.
Co-production: Telepiù, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-700271, fax +39-02-70027201.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Daniele Del Giudice, Marco Paolini.
Director of photography: Giuseppe Baresi.
Editor: Ilaria Fraioli.
Cast: Marco Paolini.
Production company: Jolefilm, via Medici 9, 30138 Padova, Italia, tel. +39+049-8718175, fax +39+049-8735263, e-mail info@jolefilm.it; Telepiù, Milano.
Co-production: Telepiù, via Piranesi 46, 20137 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-700271, fax +39-02-70027201.