Country: France
Year: 2010
Duration: 10'
the recall of the songbird A young woman walks through a forest and finds a decoy whistle under some leaves. The object reminds her of days she spent hunting with her father when, awkward and tomboyish, she tried to learn to use the whistle properly, as her father looked on sternly, and was secretly terrorized by the sound of the gunshots. She thus spends a moment living in the past, which brings back her desire to be accepted despite the fact that she wasn’t the boy her father had wanted, and to rejoin him once again now that she sees all his solitude and weakness for the first time. “I was in the throes of undefined emotions and searched for equilibrium in a rigorous method and this is why I decided to film in 16mm. I transposed my autobiography from southern Italy to the North of France in order to give this memory autonomy and to try to make it universal. Above all, I discovered that before expressing my subversive urge I needed to heal the pain. La mécanique de la grive is an interior, initiatory journey.”
Biography
film director
Rossella Piccinno
Rossella Piccinno (Supersano, Lecce, Italy, 1978) graduated in documentary and experimental filmmaking from Dams in Bologna and then received a degree as a technician of video productions. In 2005 she debuted as a director with the short Interno sei, followed by various documentaries, including Mauritania: città-biblioteche nel deserto (2006), Occhi negli occhi, memorie di viaggio (2007) and Voci di donne native e migranti (2008). She is now resident artist at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains in Lille.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Interno sei (cm, 2005), Mauritania: città-biblioteche nel deserto (mm, doc., 2006),
Occhi negli occhi, memorie di viaggio (cm, doc., 2007), Voci di donne native e migranti (cm, doc., 2008), To My Darling (cm, 2008), Come ieri (cm, doc., 2008), Hanna e Violka (mm, doc., 2009), La mécanique de la grive (cm, 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, film editing
Rossella Piccinno
fotografia/cinematography
Sarah Blum
suono/sound
Yan-elie Goran
interpreti/cast
Anonine Ray, Maxime Lecluyse, Salomé Lecluyse
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Le Fresnoy
