23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Prima che arrivi il buio

Country: Italy

Year: 2005

Duration: 6\'

The images show a rite in a small portion of the sky in a landscape with no particular geographical features, which could be anywhere. The imaginary protagonists of the rite, real migrants, float in their abstract forms and create signs which are reconstructed in the visual field and dance their usual ritual before it gets dark, before night falls.

"The images are 'dirty,' but I preferred leaving them that way, coarse, with no special treatment during editing. I came across these images by chance in the sky above Via Teulada, in Rome, in December 2004. I saw how a natural spectacle, so commonplace that it didn't draw anyone's attention, could become a fascinating scenario onscreen…" (M. Casale)

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Maicol Casale

Maicol Casale (Torino, 1972) has been involved in graphics and visual communications for 10 years, collaborating with various advertising agencies and graphic design studios in Torino. In 2004 he opened his own studio and dedicated himself to creating small video productions and editorial projects dealing with cinema and contemporary art. An aficionado of video art, he started in cinema through experimentation, creating works on paper, multimedial artworks, advertisements and video installations in Italy and abroad. He is now editing a video project in collaboration with Fuori Orario (RaiTre).

FILMOGRAFIA

Il viaggio ricomincia da qui (cm, 2002), nosign (cm, 2003), 8101410 (doc., 2003), Free Smoke (cm, 2004), Prima che arrivi il buio (cm, 2005).