23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Lukas

Country: Italy

Year: 2005

Duration: 14'

Lukas lives in a rest home not far from the railway, and he is under medical treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Trains pass by and mark his days, as his memories flow in his mind.

"Lukas is trying to remember some past events that occurred during the war. In his thoughts, and also in his everyday life , he is often followed by a woman, a clear but fleeting figure, at the same time. Just like past and present. I made this film at the end of a research at the DasArts institute in Amsterdam. It was a research work which started from war memories and then included studies on memory affecting disease." (A.N. Savino)

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Alessandro Nico Savino

Alessandro Nico Savino, writer and director, graduated at the DasArts institute in Amsterdam. He has filmed several shorts that participated to both national and international festivals. Since 1997 he is art co-director for Unimovie, an international shortfilm and video festival. In 2003 he got a scholarship from the G.A.I. (Giovani Artisti Italiani) for a script project that later became his short Lukas (2005). He has worked as a TV author and is presently writing his first screenplay for a feature film.

FILMOGRAFIA

Un desiderio inconfessabile (cm, 1999), Il viaggiatore (cm, 1999), Sogni ad occhi aperti (cm, 1999), I giganti (cm, 1999), Cinque e mezza in punto (cm, 2003), Lukas (cm, 2005).