Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 80'
Endless Night is Love Betrayal Incest. Love derived from a central theme of the
"troubadour literature", is that love living on distances, projections,
idealizations, which is forced to face death too soon, thus finding peacefulness
inside the shades of another love, distant again, much more absolute. Betrayal
is the obsession of a married man, haunted by a recurrent dream: the nightmare
of his wife's betrayal, spectres - vague, indefinite, yet insistent - of
jealousy. The nightmare advances with restless steps, leading to madness. Until
one day, when eventually his wofe's voice is heard, in a specular monologue,
reality prevails over everyting, upsetting each expectation and fear. Incest is
the voice of a woman's mind revisiting her past - a past which means desease -
that splits in two, multiplies in a hallucination concerted in two voices: the
father's and daughter's voices, wrapped up in the shade of incest. Fault, love,
past gradually becoming a sandstone. The shades, little by little and doubt
after doubt, in a hallucinated dialogue, will set her mind free.
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).