Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Year: 2010
Duration: 72'
burning fields From the ruins of the Circus Maximus in Rome to those of the Rione Terra in Pozzuoli, passing by way of the capital’s suburbs, Enrico Ghezzi encounters the cinema of Isabella Sandri and Giuseppe Gaudino. The “burning fields,” where Gaudino made Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea in 1977, bear witness to the tenacity of those who follow dreams which are as ephemeral as images in motion, opposing the decline of Italian cinema, which lacks every possible horizon. “Les champs brûants is part of a series of yet-to-be-made films entitled Les chemins de traverse, featuring portraits of Italian directors like the one we made with Beppe and Isabella. Since we have yet to meet with many filmmakers and go to many places, I imagined our project as a dozen episodes, each one dedicated to a different part of Italy… Overcome by enthusiasm for our encounter with Beppe and Isabella, we began our journey in Rome without worrying about the route we had planned to take.” (Catherine Libert)
Biography
film director
Stefano Canapa
Stefano Canapa (Turin, Italy, 1977) graduated in 2001 in Film History and Aesthetics from DAMS University in Turin. After moving to France, he combined his training with his experience from the research lab L’abominable, and contributed to creating similar kinds of structures (experimental, artisanal, self-managed) in Turin and Montevideo. He is part of the French artist collective Group ZUR (Zone Utopiquement Reconstituée) since 1998. He has been increasingly involved in projects with live components since 2002: installations, performance art, multidisciplinary improvisations, and plays for theatre.
FILMOGRAFIA
Promenaux (cm, 2001), Appunti per un film d’amore (2005), Petrolio (2009), Split Second (2011), Wavelenght (2015).
Catherine Libert, Stefano Canapa:
Les champs brûlants (doc., 2010), Des provinces lontaines (doc., 2015).
Catherine Libert
Stefano Canapa (Turin, Italy, 1977) graduated in 2001 in Film History and Aesthetics from DAMS University in Turin. After moving to France, he combined his training with his experience from the research lab L’abominable, and contributed to creating similar kinds of structures (experimental, artisanal, self-managed) in Turin and Montevideo. He is part of the French artist collective Group ZUR (Zone Utopiquement Reconstituée) since 1998. He has been increasingly involved in projects with live components since 2002: installations, performance art, multidisciplinary improvisations, and plays for theatre.
FILMOGRAFIA
Catherine Libert:
Dans le noir (cm, 2000), Benjamin, portrait d’un depart (2002), Nul ne sait ce que peut un corps (2005), Phenix (2015).
Catherine Libert, Stefano Canapa:
Les champs brûlants (doc., 2010), Des provinces lontaines (doc., 2015).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Stefano Canapa, Catherine Libert
fotografia/cinematography
Stefano Canapa
montaggio/film editing
Catherine Libert, Stefano Canapa, Fred Piet, Yoana Urruzola
suono/sound
Catherine Libert, Manu De Boissieu
interpreti/cast
Enrico Ghezzi, Isabella Sandri, Beppe Gaudino
produttori, vendita all’estero/producers, world sales
Stefano Canapa, Catherine Libert
TFF
prizes
