Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 13
Following the producing process in a window factory, this industrial video is
focused on the workers met by the camera during this process. Short and intense
portraits revealed by details (faces, transportation lines, buttons, eyes,
blades, hands) that tell the daily relationship between man and machine. A
musical itinerary through working time and production cycles, a soundtrack for
mechanical variations, where the sounds of the factory, mixed, repeated and put
on music, compose a working symphony at the assembly line.
"To make this film we have chosen an editing method as an industrial assembly
line: a kind of shared direction. After shooting the film, the editor has built
an harmonic section, putting all the images together following rhythmical loops.
Then the pre-editing has passed through the hands of the composer who has
written the soundtrack. Finally, the editing process has been finalized on the
music." (G. Giommi)
Biography
film director
Giovanni Giommi
giovanni giommi (Milan, Italy, 1965) studied at the Scuola civica di cinema in Milan, before working as a writer, producer and director for the TV channels Tele + and Mtv Italia. He then made Nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli - I cento passi di Peppino Impastato, which he shot during the production of the film One Hundred Steps (2000) by Marco Tullio Giordana. He next directed Beisbol and in 2005 he began collaborating with Massimo Coppola on the TV series of TV Avere ventanni. The following year, he presented Politica Zero at the Torino Film Festival and in 2007, always at the TFF, his film Les ninjas du Japon won the Avanti! award. Parafernalia was selected for the Locarno Film Festival and for the 2008 Courmayeur Noir Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Sol y sombra (doc., 1997), Nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli - I cento passi di Peppino Impastato (doc., 1999), Beisbol (doc., 2000), Nice! (doc., 2000), Frames - Variazioni per catena di montaggio (doc., 2004), Avere ventanni (coregia/codirectors Massimo Coppola, Alberto Piccinini, tv, doc., 2005-2007), Politica zero (coregia/codirectors Massimo Coppola, Alberto Piccinini, doc., 2006), Les ninjas du Japon (doc., 2007), Parafernalia (doc., 2008), Bad Weather (doc., 2011).
TFF
prizes
