Country: Switzerland
Year: 2010
Duration: 21'
dogs are barking [t.l.] Roberto lives in a Fiat Panda next to what remains of the post office, while Felice still lives in his badly damaged house. They are the last inhabitants of the ghost piazza of Camarda, a town which was completely destroyed by the earthquake which struck Abruzzo in the spring of 2009. “After the earthquake on April 6, 2009, I began to write a diary about the disaster of Aquila. I wanted to find out what was really happening in that isolated region in the Gran Sasso mountains. The only solution was to see it with my own eyes. And that’s what I did; I personally experienced what it means to be an evacuee. When I returned to Lausanne I realized that the story I wanted to tell was buried beneath the dust and the rubble. I returned to Aquila in November. Needless to say, the situation had changed radically: the camps were gone and the city and the towns were deserted. I began to drive around in my car to all the towns, searching for a sign or a hint of ‘normality,’ and then by chance I found myself in the piazza of Camarda, where I met Roberto and Felice.”
Biography
film director
Michele Pennetta
Michele Pennetta (Varese, Italy, 1984) graduated in visual communications from Lugano’s University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland in 2008. He went on to get his master’s degree in directing from the École Cantonale d’Art in Lausanne in 2010. Besides directing, he has also collaborated as a cameraman and editor on various documentaries directed by Louise Carrin.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Profondo amore (cm, 2008), Sisto (cm, doc., 2009), Entre Vincent Perret (cm, doc., 2009), I cani abbaiano (cm, doc., 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, suono/director, screenplay, cinematography, sound
Michele Pennetta
montaggio/film editing
Celine Amelson
interpreti/cast
Roberto Innocenzi, Felice Spagnoli
produzione/production
École cantonale d’art de Lausanne
