Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 63'
Life, art, and political and entrepreneurial commitment are combined in the figure of Ottavio Mario Mai, just like they are in post-modern society. Mai seems to have sensed and exploited these potentialities and characteristics before others did. Ottavio Mai was most involved from 1980 until his death in 1992, when the society dedicated to shows and communication definitively got the upper hand.
"Ottavio Mai understood that if homosexuality isn't represented in this society dedicated to shows and the media which is slowly but surely taking over, then its representation is fundamental, it is the only sign, the only proof of existence. Therefore, he fills the void. With his films which, although poor and consciously making use of new electronic means, range from documentaries to traditional fiction, from poetic short films to experimental films, and which talk directly, without mediation, about gays, transvestites, couples, families, betrayals, battuage, and "homosexual normality", touching every genre, like nobody had ever dared to do in Italy before" (A. Golinelli, G. Minerba).
Biography
film director
Giovanni Minerba
Giovanni Minerba (Aradeo, Lecce) began his long artistic career with Ottavio Mai in 1977. In 1982, the two presented Dalla Vita di Piero at the Festival Cinema Giovani. In 1986 they created the Festival Internazionale di Film con Tematiche Omosessuali in Turin. By financing themselves, they have also produced works by other directors.
FILMOGRAFIA
Giovanni Minerba: Dalla vita di Piero (1982, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Teatrante, musicante e saltimbanco (cm, 1985), Un po' di sud (cm, 1986), , Contrappunti (cm, 1987), Da Sodoma a Hollywood (Il Festival del vizio) (cm, 1989, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Tea for Two (cm, 1989, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Epitaffi (1989, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Fiction (cm, 1990, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Partners (1990, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Il «fico» del regime (1991, co-regia Ottavio Mai), Orfeo, il giorno prima (cm, 1994), L'amore proibito dell'eroe (1996), Che cos'È mai questo amore? (2000).
Alessandro Golinelli
Alessandro Golinelli (Pisa, 1963). He has published the novels Basta che Paghino, Kurt Sta Facendo la Farfalla, Angeli, La Felicità della Signora, Come Ombre, 6?. In 1996 he won the Special Jury's Prize at the Festival di Videoarte of Locarno, and then worked as an author for Mediaset and Rai. In 2000 he founded and directed RCT, the first gay and lesbian satellite television station.
Cast
& Credits
Director: Alessandro Golinelli, Giovanni Minerba.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Alessandro Golinelli.
Director of photography: Pietro Sciortino.
Editor: Rocco Bernini.Music: Fabrizio G. Sabbarino, Alessandro Golinelli.
Sound: Mirko Guerra.
Cast: Ada Di Benedetto, Leo Gullotta, Leonardo Treviglio, Enza Fantini, Antonio Congedo, Salvatore Botrugno, Mario Saroldi, Costantino Toma, Tiziano Cosi, Anna Chimienti, Gabriele Dil Dell'A-iera, Damiano Andresano, Cosimo Santoro, Salvatore Faulisi.
Interventi di: Alberto Barbera, Fabio Bo, Gianni Rondolino, Raffaella De Vita, Angelo Pezzana, Gianni Vattimo, Marziano Marzano, Laura Righi, Raul Ivaldi, Donatella Olocco, Mirco Biscaro, Stella Capogreco, Ivana Cisero, Marco Silombria, Piero Valetto.
Production company: L'Altra Comunicazione, via Saccarelli 26, 10144 Torino, Italia, +39-011-4376034; Orione Cinematografica, via Papiniano 10, 00136 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-6380373.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura: Alessandro Golinelli.
Director of photography: Pietro Sciortino.
Editor: Rocco Bernini.Music: Fabrizio G. Sabbarino, Alessandro Golinelli.
Sound: Mirko Guerra.
Cast: Ada Di Benedetto, Leo Gullotta, Leonardo Treviglio, Enza Fantini, Antonio Congedo, Salvatore Botrugno, Mario Saroldi, Costantino Toma, Tiziano Cosi, Anna Chimienti, Gabriele Dil Dell'A-iera, Damiano Andresano, Cosimo Santoro, Salvatore Faulisi.
Interventi di: Alberto Barbera, Fabio Bo, Gianni Rondolino, Raffaella De Vita, Angelo Pezzana, Gianni Vattimo, Marziano Marzano, Laura Righi, Raul Ivaldi, Donatella Olocco, Mirco Biscaro, Stella Capogreco, Ivana Cisero, Marco Silombria, Piero Valetto.
Production company: L'Altra Comunicazione, via Saccarelli 26, 10144 Torino, Italia, +39-011-4376034; Orione Cinematografica, via Papiniano 10, 00136 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-6380373.
