Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 8'


The poet Dario John Brondello was the last tenant to be evicted from his apartment in the house in Piazza Carlina where Antonio Gramsci had lived in Torino. Up until that moment the building had been a council house, it will become a luxury hotel. As he wanders through the maze of cellars in the building’s basement, the poet recites Ganci,
a poem dedicated to his father (but maybe, by extension, to Gramsci himself as well).

“Dario and I used to meet up periodically, after long intervals of time, to make video poems. Ganci is an ideal continuation of Senza fissa dimora, a video poem we made in 1986 inside the crypt of the church of Santa Croce, near the building in Piazza Carlina. Perhaps, since the film is the story of an eviction, the title Senza fissa dimora ‘no fixed
abode’ might have somehow been sadly prophetic for Dario.”

Biography

film director

Luca Pastore

Luca Pastore (Turin, Italy, 1961) founded the production company Legovideo in 1983 with Alessandro Cocito. He has directed documentaries, video clips, TV jingles and commercials and his works have been broadcast by TV stations such as Rai, Arte, RaiSat, La7, Mtv and Sky. In 2001, his documentary Io arrivo da Giove received the Jury Award at the Torino Film Festival, at which he has also participated with various films, including I dischi del sole (2005), which received a nomination for a David di Donatello and the Jury Prize at RomaMusicDocFest. He also has made four albums with the punk noise group Fluxus.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography 

Il processo (cm, 1984), Ultima spiaggia (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, cm, 1986), Adieu Dalì (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, 1987), Unoequattordici (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, cm, 1988), Ufficio di collocamento (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, cm, 1993), Ira (1994), Senza titolo (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, cm, 1995), Welat/Patria (1998), Derelict Land (cm, 1999), 30 Seconds over Moscow (2000), Io arrivo da Giove (2001), Come fossili cristallizzati nel tempo (2002), I dischi del sole (doc., 2004), Subsonica extraterrestre (2005), Volumi all’idrogeno-kartakanta (2006), Oma e chimica (2007), Ganci (cm, doc., 2007), Freakbeat (2011).

Cast

& Credits

regia, fotografia/director, director of photography Luca Pastore
soggetto/story Dario John Brondello
montaggio/film editor Cristina Sardo
musica/music Raggio Anti-Morte
interpreti/cast Dario John Brondello
produzione/production Legovideo
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