Country: France
Year: 2011
Duration: 25'
Porta Venezia, Milan. Elena and Margherita prostitute themselves, each in her own way, while students and temporary employees stage a march in favor of the uprisings in the Arab world. Elena became a whore by chance and is looking for company. Margherita offers herself to men through her computer screen. On the other side of the Mediterranean, North Africans shout out their need to exist and fight to gain a new way of life. A correlation emerges between the story of the two women, the North African protesters and the Italian marchers. “My writings are based on reality: the faces, the situations, the actors, the lights, the settings… I find them again, I rediscover them during the staging […] This film should be viewed as a choreography. It’s a stage on the pathway of giving form to my uneasiness and my curiosity about what it means to be a prostitute today, about the notions of distance and proximity with respect to what is happening in the world, about the speed and the quantity of information which reaches us, about the impossibility of dealing with them the same way they involve us.”
Biography
film director
Gabriele di Munzio
Gabriele di Munzio (Naples, Italy, 1972) studied photography and film editing in London from 1993 to 1995, and developed an interest in theater thanks to a number of seminars held at the Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba research centers and at Teatro Valdoca. In 2001, he started making several documentaries in the Poitou-Charentes region, and he moved on to video-theater shorts in 2005. He created the association Cantine1901 in 2007, which produced his short Riviera 91, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Torino Film Festival. Two years later, he received the same award for Occhio di vetro cuore non dorme (2011). He then returned to the Torino Film Festival with Corpo familiare in 2014, and with TanjaTales in 2016.
FILMOGRAFIA
Riviera 91 (cm, 2009), Papillon distrait (cm, 2010), Occhio di vetro cuore non dorme (cm, 2011), Corpo familiare (cm, 2014), TanjaTales (cm, 2016), Racconto di cenere e lapilli (2017).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio, suono/director, screenplay, cinematography, film editing, sound
Gabriele di Munzio
interpreti/cast
Margherita Romeo, Elena Pinardi Feletti
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Cantine1901
TFF
prizes
