Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Duration: 17'
mammaliturchi! A metal door separates the container from the black sea, which is occasionally lit up by flashes of lightning. Another shape can be seen in the darkness, an abandoned place with forgotten objects bearing witness to the life it used to contain: mattresses, closets, tables, chairs, toys and books; things that had once been useful to someone. The halls are lined with bare rooms. The windows seem to let the sky take over the unused space, while in the end the silence dominates undisputed. “The film is neither an attack on the executioners nor compassion for the victims; it is neither criticism of a faulty method nor a jab at a law that permitted the creation of these new prisons and changed the meaning of the word “hospitality.” The enormous wreck, in which everything is suspended as though on a seabed and cradled by the water, is documented with a glassy eye… it is as though one of the many drowned bodies that the Mediterranean has yet to give up were furtively wandering along the white tiles of this profaned body.”
Biography
film director
Carlo Michele Schirinzi
Carlo Michele Schirinzi (Capo di Leuca, Lecce, Italy, 1974) is a video maker and artist. In 2004, his short All’erta! won an award at the Pesaro Film Festival, which then dedicated the 2005 retrospective to him. Over the years, the Torino Film Festival has presented much of his work: Astrolìte (2002), Il nido (Special Mention in 2003), Oligarchico (2007), Sonderbehandlung (2008), Notturno stenopeico (Best Italian Short in 2009), Mammaliturchi! (Special Mention in 2010), and Natura morta in giallo (2012). Eco da luogo scolpito was selected at the Venice International Film Festival. He presented his first feature film I resti di Bisanzio (2014) at Pesaro Film Festival and at Doclisboa.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
L’amanuense (cm, 2000), Il sepolcro (cm, 2000), Dè-tail (cm, 2001), Trappe (cm, 2001), Astrolìte (mm, 2002), Il nido (cm, 2003), Fuga da Nicea (cm, 2008), Notturno stenopeico (cm, 2009), Prospettiva in fuga (cm, 2009), Mammaliturchi! (cm, 2010), Frammenti da un confine (cm, 2010), Eco da luogo colpito (cm, 2011), Natura morta in giallo (cm, 2012), I resti di Bisanzio (2014), Eclisse senza cielo (mm, 2016), Deposizione in due atti (2014-15), Padrone dove sei (2019).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, fotografia, montaggio/director, story, cinematography, film editing
Carlo Michele Schirinzi
musica, suono/music, sound
Stefano De Santis
produttori/producers
Gianluca Arcopinto, Carlo Michele Schirinzi
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Coop. Kama
TFF
prizes
