20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Doc 2002 Competition

Norge Pa Langs - A nord di me stesso

Alone Accross Norway, at North of My Self

Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 52'


Ario Sciolari's solitary journey along the three thousand kilometer-long chain of Norwegian mountains. A four-months' adventure in the heart of the Arctic winter across the most wild and isolated mountains in Europe, in search of intense contact with Nature. His companions are the two wolf cubs that were born and raised by him in the forests of the Dolomites, Mohok and Chinook. They will be forced to abandon their master, suddenly interrupting the crossing and leaving him in profound solitude. His other inseparable traveling friend is his movie camera, with which the mountain climber films himself and which soon becomes almost a confidant of his, making him feel less alone during his difficult enterprise.

"It took eighteen months from when we came up with the idea of this project until its conclusion: not only did we take it upon ourselves to make the documentary but we actively contributed to the success of the expedition. We were careful not to interfere with the purely solitary character of the adventure, as we followed Ario at a distance, ready to intervene only in case of an emergency, re-supplying him with food when necessary or substituting damaged pieces of equipment" (Fluid Video Crew).

Biography

film director

Fluid Video Crew

Fluid Video Crew is the name of a group of authors (Davide Barletti, Lorenzo Conte, Edoardo Cicchetti, Mattia Mariani) who joined forces in Rome in 1995 to make audiovisual projects focusing on works dedicated to places and the stories of the people who live or travel through there. The authors have made roughly fifty films in video or on Super 8 film, an articulated socio-anthropological documentation that represents reality, never separating the land from the stories of its life.

FILMOGRAFIA

S.U.D. Suoni uniti differenti (1995), C.S.O.A. La Torre: cronaca di uno sgombero (1995), In diretta dal braccio della morte vi parla Mumia Abdul Jamal (1995), La greve (1995), Frammenti per Roma (1996), Sargeniscu (1996), Ambrakovskij (1997), Shquiperia - Albania (1997), Spakka na cifra (1998), Off Live Tv (1998), Balkanoff gli ultra corpi della porta accanto (1998), Com. Franko (1998), Un'immagine del Che (1999), Fuck You All - Glen E. Friedman Photographer (1999), Alyeska Gwicin: Caribou Don't Drink Oil (1999), Lo risciu de lu mare (1999), Alaska Expedition 999 (1999), I fantasisti - Le vere storie del Calcio Napoli (2000), Arneo: lo Stato fa guerra ai contadini (2002), Norge p langs - A nord di me stesso (2002).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, montaggio: Fluid Video Crew.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia: Ario Sciolari, Fluid Video Crew.
Cast: Ario Sciolari.
Produzione, distrubuzione e vendita all'estero: Fluid Video Crew, via Morgagni 22, 00161 Roma, Italia, tel. e fax +39-06-4403068, e-mail fluidvideocrew@hotmail.com.
Co-production: Nuct, Nuova universit` del video e della televisione, Roma, Italia.
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