Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 77'
The lost tape of the legendary jam session between Equipe84 and Jimi Hendrix is the catalyst for a trip across Emilia in an old VW van driven by Freak Antoni, who is accompanied by his daughter Margherita. The musician tries to transmit to her the values on which an entire generation was founded and which now seem to have been supplanted by cynicism and barrenness. During the journey, the two encounter the protagonists of Italy’s season of Beat, until they finally reach their destination – the one man who might know the truth: Maurizio Vandelli. “Freakbeat is an attempt to depict in a lighthearted and unpredictable way that intangible anti-conformist madness which was born in the ‘60s on the tracks of the intellectual revolution of the beat generation and which continues to be the basis for the non-homologation of entire generations, which are beat without realizing it. Freakbeat is rooted in today, without any nostalgia, but with the awareness that utopia and imagination are essential ingredients for counterbalancing the arid functionalism which too often tries to dominate us.”
Biography
film director
Luca Pastore
Luca Pastore (Turin, Italy, 1961) founded the production company Legovideo in 1983 with Alessandro Cocito. He has directed documentaries, video clips, TV jingles and commercials and his works have been broadcast by TV stations such as Rai, Arte, RaiSat, La7, Mtv and Sky. In 2001, his documentary Io arrivo da Giove received the Jury Award at the Torino Film Festival, at which he has also participated with various films, including I dischi del sole (2005), which received a nomination for a David di Donatello and the Jury Prize at RomaMusicDocFest. He also has made four albums with the punk noise group Fluxus.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Il processo (cm, 1984), Ultima spiaggia (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, cm, 1986), Adieu Dalì (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, 1987), Unoequattordici (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, cm, 1988), Ufficio di collocamento (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, cm, 1993), Ira (1994), Senza titolo (coregia/codirector Alessandro Cocito, cm, 1995), Welat/Patria (1998), Derelict Land (cm, 1999), 30 Seconds over Moscow (2000), Io arrivo da Giove (2001), Come fossili cristallizzati nel tempo (2002), I dischi del sole (doc., 2004), Subsonica extraterrestre (2005), Volumi all’idrogeno-kartakanta (2006), Oma e chimica (2007), Ganci (cm, doc., 2007), Freakbeat (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Luca Pastore
soggetto/story
Luca Pastore, Claudio Piersanti
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Claudio Piersanti
fotografia/cinematography
Luciano Federici
montaggio/film editing
Cristina Sardo
scenografia/production design
Valerio Gnesini
costumi/costume design
Francesca Piani
suono/sound
Diego Schiavo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Roberto «Freak» Antoni (Freak), Sofia Fesani (Margherita), Maurizio Vandelli (se stesso/Himself), Marco Moser (se stesso/Himself), Max Marmiroli (se stesso/Himself), Romano «VIII» Morandi (se stesso/Himself), Carlo Savigni (l’uomo sul treno/Man on the Train), Ambra Borelli (la proprietaria della pellicceria/Fur Coats Shop Owner)
produttore/producer
Roberto Ruini
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Pulsemedia
TFF
prizes
