Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 53
This film is inspired by the poem Il canto dei nuovi emigranti by Franco Costabile. At a distance of 40 years from the poet's death, it tells the common story of a people through the life and works of the author. The harsh setting of Calabria, the wound of emigration, the absolute unconcern of institutions and politicians, the grief for a human condition with no way out - all treats of the poet's lifelong travel as episodes of a human experience which has both a familiar and a social value. "Franco Costabile was one of the most important poets Calabria has ever had. He was a Calabrese poet and a universal poet, also, right in the way he was Calabrese. Because it was - and it still is - impossible to write real poetry, in Calabria, if you draw away from the condition of decay and subordination this land and its peopled have suffered from ages of domination up to today's underdevelopment." (A. Lavorato)
Biography
film director
Arturo Lavorato
Felice D’Agostino (Tropea, Vibo Valentia, Italy, 1978) and Arturo Lavorato (Vibo Valentia, Italy, 1974) have been working with Suttvuess as cameramen, editors and directors since 2000. For years they have conducted research and audiovisual documentation of religious feastdays in Calabria. Their film Il canto dei nuovi emigranti won the Doc 2005 Prize at the Torino Film Festival and the Casa Rossa Doc Prize at the Bellaria Film Festival. The next year they presented at the Torino Film Festival Un racconto incominciato, which won the Avanti! Prize, while In attesa dell’avvento (2011) won the Orizzonti Award at the 68th Venice Film Festival. They both live and work between Paris and Calabria.
FILMOGRAFIA
Arturo Lavorato:
A zappa pisa… (coregia/codirector Marco Marcotulli, doc., 2002).
Felice D’Agostino, Arturo Lavorato:
La gente dell’albero (coregia/codirector Angelo Maggio, doc., 2004), Vattienti (coregia/codirector Angelo Maggio, doc., 2004), Il canto dei nuovi emigranti (doc., 2005), ...allora piangeranno mentre noi cammineremo (doc., 2006), Un racconto incominciato (doc., 2006), Noi dobbiamo deciderci (doc., 2007), In amabile azzurro (doc., 2009), In attesa dell’avvento (cm, doc., 2011), Essi bruciano ancora (doc., 2017).
Felice D'Agostino
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