Country: Italy
Year: 2006
Duration: 10'
The second episode of a series dedicated to suicide, following Suicidio di un perito elettrico (2005). A paraplegic who is obsessed with tap dancing decides to commit suicide by trying out an electric wheelchair. "Against Christian piety, against rampant goodness. An outcast to the end, never a humane case." (F. Guttuso)
Biography
film director
Francesco Guttuso
Francesco Guttuso has collaborated with the directors Daniele Ciprì e Franco Maresco since 2003. In 2004 he was co-screenwriter and director of photography for Eveline and also worked as assistant set designer for the film Il ritorno di Cagliostro by Ciprì and Maresco. In 2005 he collaborated on their theatrical work Viva Palermo e Santa Rosalia by Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco, which was presented in Bologna during the festival Le parole dello schermo. He is now working on a video-educational series to explain homosexuality to children and a series dedicated to suicide. He is also working on various feature film screenplays: Lewis e le sue bimbe (about the life of Lewis Carroll), Ernesto (a film adaptation of Saba’s masterpiece) and Vulve giganti dal pianeta Tetrak (a fanta-pornographic film).
FILMOGRAFIA
Oculatus (cm, 2003), Suicidio di un perito elettrico (cm, 2005), Giustino l’agnellino nella valle degli orti (cm, 2006), Suicidio di un paraplegico (2 di 10) (cm, 2006)
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