Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 25'
This is a comparison between two different versions of two reels from Buster Keaton films. The directors have begun their analysis with Hard Luck (1921) and Day Dreams (1922). These films exist in versions that have recently been restored but are still incomplete. It is precisely because they are incomplete ñ each film in a different way ó that they have been prompted to compare the different versions. The French and the American restorations appear side by side on a split screen.
Biography
film director
Francesco Ballo
(Milan, 1950) was a professor of History of film and video at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Scholar and filmmaker, he has published volumes about Jacques Tourneur and Buster Keaton among 2007 e 2013. In the last twenty years he has realized, among others, the feature film in 16 mm, Muri Bianchi (1998), Hai chiuso la valigia? (1999), Buster Keaton di corsa (2003), Guido Ballo. Poesie, con Marina Ballo Charmet (2004), Risa (2007), Note su Sherlock Jr., in collaboration with Paolo Darra (2009), La fantastica coppia. Roscoe Arbuckle e Buster Keaton (2014), Ghiaccio Rosso (2016), Esperimenti (2015-2016-2017), Si va… Si va… Documentario su una scalata perduta (Italia, 2017), Preferirei di no (2018). In 2019 ha presented at the Giornate del cinema muto in Pordenone Variazioni di “The Blacksmith” di Buster Keaton (2018), Mal St. Clair (2018) and The Blacksmith - Versione Ballo (2018), Pietra at Milano Film Festival (2019), and a series of shorts and fragments at Filmmaker International Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale
Muri Bianchi (1998), Milano. Corso Buenos Aires (Italia, 1998), Hai chiuso la valigia? (1999), Ortogonali (Italia, 2001), Buster Keaton di corsa (2003), Guido Ballo. Poesie, con Marina Ballo Charmet (2004), Risa (2007), Note su Sherlock Jr. (2009), La fantastica coppia. Roscoe Arbuckle e Buster Keaton (2014), Ghiaccio Rosso (2016), Esperimenti (2015-2016-2017), Si va… Si va… Documentario su una scalata perduta (Italia, 2017), Preferirei di no (2018), Variazioni di “The Blacksmith” di Buster Keaton (2018), Mal St. Clair (2018), The Blacksmith - Versione Ballo (2018), Pietra (2019), In una notte (Italia, 2022), Tornano i varani (Italia, 2022).
Luca Mosso
Francesco Ballo (Milan, 1950) is professor of Mass Media Theory and Methods and Film History at the Brera Fine Arts Academy.
FILMOGRAFIA
Luca Mosso (Bormio, SO; 1962) is a critic and film promoter who lives and works in Milan. He coordinates the activities of the Pandora Film Association there.
Cast
& Credits
Director: Francesco Ballo, Luca Mosso.
Editor: Martina Parenti e Marianna Schivardi.
Production company: Luca Mosso per associazione Cinematografica Pandora, via Aosta 2, 20155 Milano, tel. +39-317042, fax. +39-02-33611001, e-mail pandorassociazione@libero.it.
Editor: Martina Parenti e Marianna Schivardi.
Production company: Luca Mosso per associazione Cinematografica Pandora, via Aosta 2, 20155 Milano, tel. +39-317042, fax. +39-02-33611001, e-mail pandorassociazione@libero.it.
