Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 12'
What’s left of a man, after death has taken him away? The face of a ghost wanders through the many old photographs, in search of his identity. He discovers that he was part of the “conquest of the desert,” the colonization of Argentina’s Chaco. “Resistencia is entirely based on material from a private archive
composed of roughly two thousand photos that my great-uncle took
between the 1930s and 1960s. Through his personal memories,
I tried to tell a collective story of the city called Resistencia (Chaco,
Argentina), that became a colony of Italian immigrants in indigenous
land.”
Biography
film director
Caterina Gueli
(Verona, Italy, 1978) grew up in Mexico and France. In 2004 she graduated in political science in Florence and from 2003 to 2005 she collaborated in the organization and programming of the Festival dei Popoli in Florence. In 2005 she helped make the documentary Il canto dei nuovi emigranti by Felice D’Agostino and Arturo Lavorato. In 2006 she partecipated at the Master in documentary creation at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, during which she devoleped the project of Resistencia, her first film. She’s actually living and working in Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
Resistencia (cm, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Caterina Gueli
fotografia, montaggio, suono, produttore/director of photography, film editor, sound, producer Caterina Gueli, Felice D’Agostino
musica/music Gebbard Ullmann, Juergen Kupke, Michael Thieke
voce/voice Osvaldo Alzari
fotografia, montaggio, suono, produttore/director of photography, film editor, sound, producer Caterina Gueli, Felice D’Agostino
musica/music Gebbard Ullmann, Juergen Kupke, Michael Thieke
voce/voice Osvaldo Alzari
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