Country: Italy
Year: 2009
Duration: 75'
INTO THE BLUE “As opposed to what one might think, tent cities are highly creative
Emiliano, Valentina, Paolo, Elisabetta and Stefano have been living
in the Collemaggio tent city near L’Aquila ever since the disastrous
earthquake hit Abruzzo on April 6TH. One is a director, another is a
musician, others would like to become actors. They want their life to go
on as always, with their dreams and desires, and their stories mix with
imaginary stories that reinvent friendships and relationships despite the
daily difficulties, the invasive presence of the media and the stereotypes
it proposes.
places: the absence of walls, doors or ‘objects’ inevitably leads to
meetings, comparisons and discovery; and in fact the music in the
film was composed by all of us in the tent city. This spirit gave us the
strength to represent ourselves with irony rather than in a pathetic
or whiny way because we realize that Into the Blue is a docufiction,
a sort of adaptation of a natural catastrophe.”
Biography
film director
Emiliano Dante
Emiliano Dante (L’Aquila, Italy, 1974) debuted as a director in 2003 with a series of shorts about living, The Home Sequence Series. After making other shorts, he made two documentaries about life after an earthquake, Into the Blue (2009) and Habitat - Note personali (2014), both of which were presented at the Torino Film Festival, the start of a trilogy which concludes with Appennino. Besides documentaries, he also directed the fiction feature film Limen (2013). His work reflects a concept of radical authorship, personally making all the artistic components (screenplay, editing, music, cinematography and, when called for, animation). He is also a photographer, essayist and narrator.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Home Sequence Series (serie/series, 2003-2005), Payphones (60) (cm, 2006), Into the Blue (doc., 2009), Limen (2013), Habitat - Note personali (mm, doc., 2014), Appennino (doc., 2017).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto,
fotografia, montaggio/
director, story,
cinematography,
film editing
Emiliano Dante
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Emiliano Dante,
Marco Lombardi
musica/music
Emiliano Dante,
Paolo De Felice,
Stefano Di Brisco,
Federico Serio
interpreti/cast
Elisabetta Aleandri,
Anna Colagrande,
Paolo Colagrande,
Emiliano Dante,
Paolo De Felice,
Stefano Di Brisco,
Alessio Di Giannantonio,
Roberto Fusco,
Izmir Kosi,
Dennis Kosi,
Anna Lunadei,
Valentina Nanni,
Federico Serio
produttore/producer
Marco Lombardi
produzione/production
Grillo Film
coproduttore/coproducer
Edoardo Caroccia
fotografia, montaggio/
director, story,
cinematography,
film editing
Emiliano Dante
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Emiliano Dante,
Marco Lombardi
musica/music
Emiliano Dante,
Paolo De Felice,
Stefano Di Brisco,
Federico Serio
interpreti/cast
Elisabetta Aleandri,
Anna Colagrande,
Paolo Colagrande,
Emiliano Dante,
Paolo De Felice,
Stefano Di Brisco,
Alessio Di Giannantonio,
Roberto Fusco,
Izmir Kosi,
Dennis Kosi,
Anna Lunadei,
Valentina Nanni,
Federico Serio
produttore/producer
Marco Lombardi
produzione/production
Grillo Film
coproduttore/coproducer
Edoardo Caroccia
