Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 67'
A writing on a wall, left by a friend who died in tragic circumstances, states: destroy your ego. The sentence triggers a thought process in Cosimo, which leads him to delve deep into himself, as he frantically moves to different cities, through the books he reads and the intense relationship with his friend.
Biography
film director
Cosimo Terlizzi
(Bitonto, Bari, Italy, 1973) is a visual artist living and working in Apulia, who experiments with photograph, performance, installations, video. His works have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), MamBo (Bologna), the Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), the Fondazione Merz (Turin), MACRO (Rome), the National Museum of Wrocław (Poland). His documentaries have been presented in Rotterdam, at the Dance Biennale in Venice, the Torino Film Festival, the Festival internacional de cine in Mar del Plata, the London Documentary Festival. In 2018, with Buena Onda (the production company of Valeria Golino, Riccardo Scamarcio, and Viola Prestieri), he made his first feature fiction film, Dei. In 2019 presented at the TFF his film Dentro di te c’è la terra. He’s the artistic director of the Asolo Art Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Aiuto! Orde barbare al pratello (doc., 1996-2011), Nadia Luca & Roberto (cm, 1997), Ritratto di famiglia (cm, 2001), Rocca Petrosa (cm, 2002), Une saison en enfer (cm, 2004), Murgia (doc., 2008), Fratelli Fava (cm, 2008), S.N. (cm, 2008), Folder (doc., 2010), L’uomo doppio (doc., 2012), La benedizione degli animali (cm, 2013), Aurora, un percorso di creazione (doc., 2015), Dei (2018), Dentro di te c’è la terra (doc., 2019), Cinque Uomini, un diario al di là della scena (doc., 2022).
Declaration
film director
“I concentrated the perspective on my relationship and my work as an artist in Double; I used myself as a test subject to investigate the lights and shadows of one’s personality. I would start out my days with a thought, which developed over time, becoming increasingly sophisticated and detached from the body’s reasons. I realized that the more the mind detaches itself from the body with its abstract havens, the more the body acclaims carnal nourishment. Instinct emerges in the mind’s pauses. Sensuality and vanity contradict the cogitation’s development. What emerges is man’s double nature, divided by the reasons of the body and the reasons of the mind."
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, story, screenplay, film editing
Cosimo Terlizzi
fotografia/cinematography Federico Annicchiarico
musica/music Melampus, Christian Rainer
suono/sound Massimo Carozzi
interpreti/cast Damien Modolo, Cosimo Terlizzi, Barbara Modugno, Christian Rainer, William Ranieri, Roberto Ratti, Paolo Romagnoli, Sissi produttori/producers Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Valeria Golino
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Buena Onda
fotografia/cinematography Federico Annicchiarico
musica/music Melampus, Christian Rainer
suono/sound Massimo Carozzi
interpreti/cast Damien Modolo, Cosimo Terlizzi, Barbara Modugno, Christian Rainer, William Ranieri, Roberto Ratti, Paolo Romagnoli, Sissi produttori/producers Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Valeria Golino
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Buena Onda
