Country: Italy
Year: 2008
Duration: 6'
Track shots in the hallways of a hotel blend into a mosaic of colours
through the fragmentation of the screen.
“One hundred thirty-six years ago, in early 1872, Arthur Rimbaud
wrote: ‘A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels.’ By trying
to understand how five hallways that are identical but of different
colours can become cinema, one automatically thinks of writing.
And in fact, it’s useless, if not impossible, to read two lines of a text
at the same time, just like it’s hard and not very useful to try to look
at two sequences at the same time. Unless they become painting.”
Biography
film director
Olivo Barbieri
Olivo Barbieri (Carpi, Modena, Italy, 1954) begins to exhibit his work in 1978 and from 1989 he regularly travels to East. Between 1993 and 1997, he took part in the Biennial in Venice and in numerous other international events devoted to contemporary visual arts. In 1996, he held a retrospective exhibit of his work at the Folkwang Museum in Essen and in 2003 he exhibited in Stranger, the first Triennial of
photography and video organized by ICP (International Centre of Photography) of New York. In 2003 started the project site specific_ and he realized three films: ROMA 04, LAS VEGAS 05, SHANGHAI 04. In 2005 he started new series of film Seascape# and
Riversacape#. In 2006 he was invited from BIACS (Sevilla Biennial) to realize a new film, Sevilla (∞) 06 and in 2008 Beijing Sky was screened at the Locarno Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
site specific_ROMA 04 (cm, 2004), site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 (cm, 2005), site specific_SHANGHAI 04 (cm, 2005), Seascape#1 Night, China Shenzhen, 05 (cm, 2006), Seascape#2 Castel dell’Ovo, Napoli, 06 (cm, 2006), Sevilla (∞) 06 (cm, 2006),
Rivescape#1 Night, China Shanghai 2007 (cm, 2007), Beijing Sky (cm, 2007), TWIY (cm, 2007), 5 colori (cm, 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Olivo Barbieri
fotografia/cinematography Nicola Benazzo
montaggio/film editing Olivo Barbieri, Gennaro Romito
musica/music Gennaro Romito
produttori/producers Olivo Barbieri, Daria Menozzi
fotografia/cinematography Nicola Benazzo
montaggio/film editing Olivo Barbieri, Gennaro Romito
musica/music Gennaro Romito
produttori/producers Olivo Barbieri, Daria Menozzi