Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 31'
The three acts from a single unpublished play by Hanif Kureishi. Each act is shot as a single plan sequence. There is a single actress for two roles ñ a father and a daughter. The dark. A crack of light widens progressively and the actress moves slowly back and forth until she comes into range of a close up. The background is almost empty. Marble/material becomes body/actor. The presence of memory. (The Past is my Sickness).
"The world is full of physical beauty, full of people who want other people, even against their wills. This is all that there is" (E. Sgarbi).
Biography
film director
Elisabetta Sgarbi
(Ferrara, Italy) is the creator and director of the publishing house La nave di Teseo. She created and for nineteen years has been the artistic director of the festival La Milanesiana, dedicated to literature, music, cinema, science, art, philosophy, and theatre. Since 1999 she has been the director and producer of her films, which were often presented at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Frammenti di una biografia per versi e voce (cm, 1999), Projeto meninos de luz (cm, 2000), (non sempre) merci beaucoup (cm, 2000), La consolazione e la spina dolorosa (cm, 2001), Alladin Flash(-back) (cm, 2001), Belle di notte (mm, 2001), La notte che si sposta - Gianfranco Ferroni (mm, 2002), Rue de Varenne (cm, 2002), Notte senza fine (2004), Due contro una (mm, doc., 2005), NevicheRò (2006), Il pianto della statua (mm, 2007), L’ultima salita - La Via Crucis di Beniamino Simoni (doc., 2009), Deserto Rosa - Luigi Ghirri (doc., 2009), Cosa è l’avanguardia? (doc., 2011), L’invenzione di Ariosto - Tullio Pericoli (doc., 2011), Racconti d’amore (2013), Per soli uomini (2014), Il pesce siluro è innocente (2014), Colpa di comunismo (doc., 2015), La lingua dei furfanti (cm, doc., 2016), L’altrove più vicino. Un viaggio in Slovenia (mm, doc., 2017), Extraliscio - Punk da Balera (doc., 2020), Vittorio Sgarbi In un tempo fuori dal tempo (doc., 2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Elisabetta Sgarbi.
Plot: When the Night Begins di Hanif Kureishi, traduzione italiana di Ivan Cotroneo.
Screenplay: Elisabetta Sgarbi con la collaborazione di Eugenio Lio e Anna Maria Lorusso.
Director of photography: Elio Bisignani.
Editor: Luciano Marenzoni.
Cast: Anna Bonaiuto.
Production company: Betty Wrong, via Ceradini 3, 20129 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-50952666, fax +39-02-76110882, www.elisabettasgarbi.it.
Plot: When the Night Begins di Hanif Kureishi, traduzione italiana di Ivan Cotroneo.
Screenplay: Elisabetta Sgarbi con la collaborazione di Eugenio Lio e Anna Maria Lorusso.
Director of photography: Elio Bisignani.
Editor: Luciano Marenzoni.
Cast: Anna Bonaiuto.
Production company: Betty Wrong, via Ceradini 3, 20129 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-50952666, fax +39-02-76110882, www.elisabettasgarbi.it.