21° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Competition

Da qui sopra il mare

From Here Above the Sea

Country: Italy
Year: 2003
Duration: 10


Since when the sound of waves.../ the ear against the shell/ behind the glass, in the rooms through the piano./ Hidden cicadas behind the ditch, fireflies in a glass.../ through a dark window the childhood house, time found again.../ a woman runs on the sunny farmyard:/ it's a breath, a colour, a reflection on water.../ from here above the sea,/ people say hello and lost things.../ maybe...

"I never work on a script or a prepared text: the images I stop are 'real', they chronicle my life, a kind of daily diary, always filtered by my mood when I film. They are born already altered, out of focus and overexposed, or dark and confused, and, like the pages of a journal intime, suffer (in writing, with the same pressure of the pen or in the delicacy of a pencil or a drawing) the sensitiveness of the one who's writing. I gather images and images without clear motivation; then one of these takes over, becomes necessary and motivates a new work, pulling along the others'" (M. Santini).

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& Credits

Regia, soggetto, fotografia, montaggio, suono/Director, story, director of photography,film editor, sound: Mauro Santini
Produzione, distribuzione/Production, distribution: Mauro Santini
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