Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 50
Winter: on the big wall in his studio in Turin, Mario Surbone uses charcoal to sketch the outline of a new work and, in his mind, the forms he is drawing correspond to the elements of the surrounding landscape. In the spring and summer, his canvas reflects the countryside, where he continues to work on the painting and finally, and that will mark also the fall, the final panel to be completed. “I got the idea for the film at Mario Surbone’s exhibit Le mie colline and it stuck in my mind until, one summer evening, I suddenly understood the process of interiorizing and transfiguring which this artist uses to express his relationship with the landscape. To me, all his works are connected with art and Chinese philosophy, which uses the landscape to reveal the creative activity of the universe and the great metamorphoses of the forms of reality. So I constructed the film along the reflections of the painter philosopher Shitao, in an attempt to associate the life of a work of art with that of a hillside.”
Biography
film director
Alessandro Pugno
Alessandro Pugno (Casale Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy, 1983) studied philosophy in Bologna, where he began working in the world of images as an assistant photographer. He then spent a few years traveling and that experience became the basis of his photo exhibit La giostra, which was held in Seville in 2005, and the collection of poems Fili d’oro tra le ortiche, which received a special mention at the Lorenzo Montano poetry prize in 2006. In 2008, he returned to Italy to create Papavero Films, with which he directed his first film, La culla delle aquile, which was presented at various festivals, including the Trento Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
La culla delle aquile (mm, 2008), Le tre distanze (mm, doc., 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Alessandro Pugno
soggetto/story
Cristina Rodriguez Alvarez, Alessandro Pugno
fotografia/cinematography
Andrea Bertazzi, Alessandro Pugno
interprete/cast
Mario Surbone
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Papavero Films
