Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 45
The film of a performance by the inmates of the Sezione Prometeo of the Vallette prison in Turin in June 2005. "I'm convinced that prison is the dark mirror of the society that produces it. Moreover: prison offers a measure for understanding life outside, for better or for worse. I've been going to Vallette prison for about a year. During this period I have followed Claudio Montagna's work with the inmates. Without thinking about giving the filmed material a specific end result, we agreed to put together the clips about the seminars and the shots of the final performance, so that people who aren't familiar with prison life can have the possibility of understanding something about what happens in there and how the inmates live." (D. Ferrario) "We all 'talk theater' together. This year Davide Ferrario infected our language, he enlarged it with a video camera. Together we discovered that theater can say more things if it also "speaks" cinema." (C. Montagna)
Biography
film director
Davide Ferrario
(Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Italy, 1956) graduated in Anglo-American literature. In the beginning of the 1980s he works with different cinema magazines and organizes film festivals and events. He is the author of many essays on cinema, of novels and several screenplays. He has directed short films and documentaries, and, among the long feature films, we would like to mention La fine della notte, Tutti giù per terra, based on the novel by Giuseppe Culicchia, and Guardami, screened in Venice in 1999. His novel Fade to Black, with fiction figure of Orson Welles, has been translated in many languages and in 2006 became an Oliver Parker’s film production of the same title. He partecipated at the Torino Film Festival with several titles, among which Materiale resistente (1995), codirected with Guido Chiesa, Sexx (2016), and Cento anni (2017). In 2020 he presented at the Festival the documentary feature Nuovo cinema paralitico (2020), and the following year the feature Just Noise.
FILMOGRAFIA
Non date da mangiare agli animali (cm, 1987), La fine della notte (1989), Lontano da Roma (doc, 1991), Anime fiammeggianti (1994), A Rimini (cm, 1995), Il figlio di Zelig (cm, 1995), Materiale resistente (co-regia Guido Chiesa, doc, 1995), Confidential Report (doc, 1996), Estate in città (cm, 1996), Partigiani (doc, 1997), Tutti giù per terra (1997), Figli di Annibale (1998), Sul quarantacinquesimo parallelo (doc, 1998), Guardami (1999), Comunisti (doc, 1999), Linea di confine (doc, 2000), La rabbia (doc, 2000), Le strade di Genova (doc, 2001), Fine amore: mai (doc, 2002), I Tigi a Gibellina (doc, 2002), Mondonuovo (doc, 2003), Dopo mezzanotte (2003), Se devo essere sincera (2004), La strada di Levi (doc, 2006), Tutta colpa di Giuda (2009), Piazza Garibaldi (doc, 2012), La luna su Torino (2014), La zuppa del demonio (doc, 2014), Accademia Carrara: il museo riscoperto (doc, 2015), Sexxx (doc., 2016), Cento anni (doc., 2017), Nuovo cinema paralitico (docufilm, 2020), Blood on the Crown (2021), Boys (2021), Umberto Eco - La biblioteca del mondo (doc, 2022).
Claudio Montagna
Claudio
Montagna is an actor,
director, theatrical
entertainer and has organized cultural projects since 1971. He began
collaborating
with C.A.S.T., a Turin-based cooperative for animation, consultation
and theatrical
performances, in 1994. He has coordinated theatrical laboratories in
Turin’s prison
since 1993.
