Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 34
In the last book by Antonio Tabucchi, Tristano muore, there is sentence that
says: "All music has already been played, we can only introduce some
variations". This is what the title of the film is about. We probably don't live
in the best of all possible worlds and the actor introduces some variations, he
reacts through dance, singing, poetry of images that speak about the difficult
themes of this new century, like unemployment. Run down factories, industrial
crisis, wage supplementation fund, detention centres for illegal immigrants, the
G-8 days in Genoa, alternated with images taken from Dreyer's film, La passion
de Jeanne D'Arc (1928). A puzzle of texts by writers, poets and musicians and
newspaper's articles in a world of images where all music has already been
played. We can only introduce variations.
Biography
film director
Armando Ceste
Armando Ceste (Turin, 1942), after several experiences in underground cinema (his first short film, La lezione, was screened at the Festival del Cinema Indipendente Italiano in 1969 in Turin), in the beginning of the 70's he is one of the founders of Collettivo Cinema Militante in Turin. In the last years he has made several works, some of them in collaboration with the Archivio Audiovisivo del movimento Operaio e Demovratico in Rome. He has been artistic director at Valsusa FilmFest, film festival on the themes of historic memory and environment defense.
FILMOGRAFIA
La lezione (1969), I migliori anni della nostra vita (1987), Donato (1987), Nosferatu, ogni notte di fronte a me (1988), Das Rastel einer Strasse (1988), Morire d'amore (1988), Recita (1990), L'ultimo nastro (1991), Lontano dal golfo (1991), Jean-Marie Straub, la resistenza del cinema (1991), Finale di partita (1992), Marzo 1973 - I giorni della Fiat (1993), Due o tre cose (1994), Aria di golpe (1994), Milano 25 aprile (1994), Mai tardi (1996), Anna Karina. Il volto della Nouvelle Vague (1996), Le parole sono importanti (1996), Jean-Marie Straub. Lezione di cinema (1998), Viaggio alla fine del mondo (dove le storie vanno a finire) (1998), Rosso/Askatasuna (a proposito di un primo maggio di guerra) (1999), Romeo & Giulietta. Il gioco del film (2000), Abdellah e i suoi fratelli (2000), Erri De Luca. Dopo Genova (filastrocche sgangherate) (2001), Libera terra (2002), Fiatamlet (2003) Variazioni (doc, 2004).