Country: France, Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 21'
For fifty years, Taranto has been home to Europe’s largest steel industry, an immense and hideous complex that occupies every economical, visual and imaginary horizon, making it the most polluted city in western Europe. On New Year’s Eve, as the fireworks explode, an international group of ecologists decides to blow the entire factory up. “After Israel and Palestine, I wanted to film in my own city and where I normally am not permitted to go. Strangely enough, shooting with a professional team and movie equipment lets you stall for time with the police or military. I wanted to film on a military island, in an industrial dump, a house in ruins on the edge of the sea, a desert that has been tinged red by the minerals in it. But by moving away from a documentary approach, I tried to respond to the factory with a form that could compete with it on a visual level. A stormy story that takes on reality and re-invents it. People are playing revolution in Taranto. And, like children, they are taking the game very seriously.”
Biography
film director
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Giacomo Abbruzzese
Giacomo Abbruzzese (Grottaglie, Taranto, Italy, 1983), after graduating in communications from the University of Siena, in 2008 specialized in film, television and multimedia production at the Dams in Bologna and then he was one of the young artists produced by Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains for the two-year period 2010-2011. His short films have been selected for numerous international festivals, including Oberhausen, Montreal, Belo Horizonte and the Torino Film Festival, where Archipel won best short film in 2010. In 2012 he was artist in residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2013 he has been selected by the Cannes Film Festival at the the Cinefondation Residence for his project of first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Romeo sotto Giulietta (cm, 2003), Esprit maternel (cm, 2004), Women, Fire and Other Dangerous Things (cm, 2005), Droga Party (cm, 2006), Passing (cm, 2007), Archipel (cm, 2010), Fireworks (cm, 2011), This Is the Way (cm, 2013), Stella Maris (cm, 2014).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, screenplay, producer
Giacomo Abbruzzese
fotografia/cinematography
Guillaume Brault
montaggio/film editing
Marco Rizzo, Giacomo Abbruzzese
musica/music
M83, Celler, Enrico Caruso
suono/sound
Nicolas Verhaeghe
interpreti/cast
Saleh Bakri, Katia, Goulioni, Angelo Losasso, Julien Anselmino, Angelo Cannata
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Le Fresnoy
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