Country: Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland
Year: 2008
Duration: 30'
The interview takes place in a small room, passing time is marked “In The Undercover Man, Pistone portrays himself inside a film
by a recorder and an old clock. A light bulb illuminates the desk
at which a man and a woman are sitting face to face. He is Joseph
Pistone, an FBI agent who, for six long years, as Donnie Brasco had
infiltrated one of the most powerful families of the American mafia.
This noir atmosphere recreates the period, with the help of original
FBI footage that show the mafia bosses in their daily life and reveal
the double life of agent Pistone.
noir setting. This fictional atmosphere underlines the fact that Joseph
Pistone belongs to an underworld that is not understandable from the
point of view of a normal citizen. On the other hand, scenes from FBI
surveillance footage show us the daily activity of gangsters as though
they were typical scenes from Scorsese’s movies. Some of the questions
are from trial transcripts. The questions become an attempt to break
down the wall of a bigger system; they reveal the failure of our tools
of information.”
Biography
film director
Rossella Biscotti
Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, Bari, Italy, 1978) participated in various collective and personal exhibits in public and private settings, including the Reina Sofia National Museum of Madrid, Rotterdam’s TENT, the Smart Project Space in Amsterdam, the GAM in Torino and the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato. In 2006
she won the New York Award for Italian Contemporary Art of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She debuted in film directing in 2004 with L’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro and in 2004 her film The Sun Shines in Kiev won a prize at the Biennial of Moving Images in Geneva and at the Festival di Gstaad. She currently lives and works in Rotterdam.
FILMOGRAFIA
L’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro (2004), Shooting on Dam Square (2005), New Crossroads (2006), The Sun Shines in Kiev (doc., 2006), The Undercover Man (cm, 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer Rossella Biscotti
fotografia/cinematography Antonello Emidi
montaggio/film editing Toon de Zoeten
scenografia/production design Kevin van Braak
musica/music FRAME
suono/sound Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
interprete/cast Joseph D. Pistone/Donnie Brasco
fotografia/cinematography Antonello Emidi
montaggio/film editing Toon de Zoeten
scenografia/production design Kevin van Braak
musica/music FRAME
suono/sound Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
interprete/cast Joseph D. Pistone/Donnie Brasco