Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 30'
The
documentary reconstructs moments in the life of A Ming, an illegal
Chinese
immigrant who has not long arrived in
And
then the mahjong pieces crackling like burning firebrands on the gaming
table
in the back of a karaoke bar, the cheeky glances of people spending
whole days
in the video arcade in Via Farini, ideograms on shops signs, busy
streets.
Disorientation, solitude and a feeling of emptiness for homesickness.
Everything
is reflected in the faces and places of everyday life.
"A
Ming is intended to focus on the desolation of an illegal
Chinese immigrant
in a context that is completely strange to him, in the uncertainty and
uneasiness of his inner life clashing
with the social life of the neighbourhood. I wished to
portray
immigration in
Biography
film director
Alessandro De Toni
Alessandro
De Toni (1977),
graduated in Social Psychology, has been
dealing with China for years, for his work as an interpreter, in the
field
of intercultural
and market research and
of internationalisation
services. In
2004 he was actor and co-producer of a documentary on the hani ethnic
group for
the
FILMOGRAFIA
Le Chef (co-regia Laura
Viezzoli, cm, 2005).
Matteo Parisini
Matteo
Parisini (1980)
has attended a course for Avid editing at
the Fondazione Valeriani
FILMOGRAFIA
Arab Ramadim (doc., 2005).