Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 17 minuti
The sea. Wrinkles of broken light. Sunk into waiting. A room. A girl looks
outside a window. She turns facing a camera. Then her mouth opens, but there are
no sounds. Right after finishing a sentence, we can only read on her lips, she
covers the lens with her hands and the look becomes black. After a few minutes
the story begins with a 12-year-old child instead of the girl. And then again...
"Waiting. Silences. Faraway sounds. Naked images. Mute concert of gestures.
Eternal repetition, loved by surrealists. Slowness. Emptiness. Denial. Listening
to absence. Stopping to breath before rain washes it all."
(M. Salimbeni)
Biography
film director
Michele Salimbeni
Michele Salimbeni (Rome, 1966) works as film director and scriptwriter. Among his works there is the award-winning I magi randagi (1996) by Sergio Citti. He has worked with many authors such as Sergio Citti, Dario Argento and Sergio Stivaletti. He made a dozen short films and Requiem (1999), with Sandra Ceccarelli. He is currently busy with a personal theatre research based on the study and experimentation of the relationship between space-actor-audience-text, inspired by American anthropologist and philosopher Edward T. Hall and the analogy between theatrical event and ritual. As theatre director he staged plays by Shakespeare, Dostoevskij, Lussu, Nietzsche, Buñuel, Andrzej Zulawski.
FILMOGRAFIA
E seguirò il tempo (cm, 1988), Lamenti (1991) , Scimmia (cm, 1991), Nero d'aprile (cm, 1996-98), Roberta (1997), Requiem (cm, 1999), Lumière noire (cm, 2002), Questo sguardo (cm, 2004).