Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 15
A not too faraway future. The house is controlled by a
centralized computer system. The whole system can be controlled via
internet and telephone. Everything is connected to everything and
everything can be controlled by the rest. It is a perfect computer
world. But in such an intertwined world, which could be the consequence
if something breaks down? The young protagonist, unwillingly, will have
to answer to this small and insignificant question.
"In their eyes the promise not to reveal the other's secret: the defeat
of the young man is reflected in the old man's eyes, and vice versa. The
old technician is defeated by a technology that cannot wait for the
slower ones, and the young man is defeated by the impossibility to give
up a complicated but imperfect system, blinded by the illusion that he
cannot live without it." (M. Calvone)
Biography
film director
Mauro Calvone
Mauro Calvone (Turin, 1972) is a student of architecture at the Politecnico of Turin. After making a Super8 film, he shot the short 16mm film L'uomo diviso dall'ombra (1991), winner of the Achille Valdata audience award at the ninth Turin Film Festival as well as a jury's special mention at the second Festival Giovani Artisti Videomagnetici. His works appeared in the third Italian independent film series in Berlin. In 1993 he made a short scientific documentary in computer graphics, the Sun Shadow Dinamics, chosen in the competition at Medianet94, a market for multimedia audiovisuals in Munich. He made the short computer graphics film, Fert, Filming with European Regard in Turin (1994), presented at the Villette in Paris.
FILMOGRAFIA
L'uomo diviso dall'ombra (cm, 1990), Sun Shadow Dinamics (doc, 1993), Fert, Filming with European Regard in Turin (cm, 1994), Testimone di un gioco di sguardi (1994), L'età del fuoco (cm, 2004).