Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 60'
Political, poetic and militant coverage of the first month that the inhabitants of Vibo Valentia spent after surviving the flooding rains that fell on July 3RD, 2006. “We declare that Prodi’s government and the relevent organs of the NATION didn’t properly come to the aid of the people who were hit by the FLOOD in Vibo. We declare that the JOURNALISTICTELEVISION-ENTERTAINMENT APPARATUS became a mediatic hit-man, helping to repress this tragedy from the nation’s CIVIL CONSCIENCE. We declare that the POLITICAL CLASS of Calabria became an accomplice to varying degrees of this INFAMOUS DEED. We declare that today, in Italy, the CITIZENS are not all equal and this is not only the case for the DOMINION THAT THE RULING CLASSES EXERT ON THE SUBORDINATE CLASSES, but also for parts of the nation that have been historically condemned to UNDERDEVELOPMENT, DECAY, and ABANDONMENT, a pool of electoral votes and workers for the northern Capital. We declare that still today, Calabria is not ITALY.”
Biography
film director
Felice D'Agostino
Felice D’Agostino (Tropea, Vibo Valentia, Italy, 1978) and Arturo Lavorato (Vibo Valentia, Italy, 1974) have been working with Suttvuess as cameraman, editors and directors since 2000. For seven years, along with Angelo Maggio, they have conducted research and audiovisual documentation of religious feastdays in Calabria. They are now creating audiovisual archives on the peasants’ revolt at Piana di Gioia Tauro. They live, create, and awkwardly try to survive between Rome and 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.
FILMOGRAFIA
Felice D’Agostino:
La notte del gufo (doc., 2003).
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).
Arturo Lavorato
Felice D’Agostino (Tropea, Vibo Valentia, Italy, 1978) and Arturo Lavorato (Vibo Valentia, Italy, 1974) have been working with Suttvuess as cameraman, editors and directors since 2000. For seven years, along with Angelo Maggio, they have conducted research and audiovisual documentation of religious feastdays in Calabria. They are now creating audiovisual archives on the peasants’ revolt at Piana di Gioia Tauro. They live, create, and awkwardly try to survive between Rome and 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.
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).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio/director, screenplay, director of photography, film editor Felice D’Agostino, Arturo Lavorato
riprese aggiuntive/additional shootings Andrea Aragona, Raffaele Lo Giudice, Francesco Porcelli
fotografie/pictures Raffaele Lo Giudice
suono/sound Riccardo Spagnol
produzione/production Etnovisioni - Suttvuess
riprese aggiuntive/additional shootings Andrea Aragona, Raffaele Lo Giudice, Francesco Porcelli
fotografie/pictures Raffaele Lo Giudice
suono/sound Riccardo Spagnol
produzione/production Etnovisioni - Suttvuess