Country: France, Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 55
second nature [l.t.]“One day they will agree with him and it will be clearer that he, before anybody else, had seen ahead into the future, ahead of his times.” These are the words Jacques Derrida uses to describe the peculiar figure of the lawyer Gerardo Marotta, a Neapolitan patron of the arts and president of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies. He is a contemporary humanist who has been fighting to spread culture as a necessary instrument to achieving social justice, contributing by creating thousands of scholarships. But to really understand what this lawyer’s work means, we have to start with his youth’s civil passion, born in the aftermath of war.“Meeting Gerardo Marotta means being overwhelmed by his enthusiasm, his radical commitment, and his heroic fury. […] His speeches on the Humanistic and Enlightenment traditions in Southern Italy, on the 1799 revolution and how it spurred the Italian Risorgimento have been repeated over the years like a mantra, bringing us back to the Crocean idea that history is always contemporary, and that revolutions are essential (even when they fail) to stimulate future generations to do better.”
Biography
film director
Marcello Sannino
Marcello Sannino (Portici, Naples, 1971), after working as a bookseller, began dedicating himself to cinema in 2002. He has made the documentaries Decroux e il mimo corporeo (2003), La Passione suessana (2004), and L’ultima Treves (2007), a portrait of the bookseller’s profession, told through the vicissitudes of a historical bookstore which is being evicted. His movie Corde (2009), about the life choices made by the boxer Ciro Pariso, won the Special Jury Prize at the 27th Torino Film Festival. Between 2008 and 2016, he collaborated with Arci Movie in Ponticelli, Parallelo41, and Figli del Bronx, running laboratories on film languages at various institutes of higher learning and making short films with the students which have participated at various specialized festivals.
FILMOGRAFIA
Decroux e il mimo corporeo (doc., 2003), La Passione suessana (doc., 2004), L’ultima Treves (doc., 2007), Corde (doc., 2009), Napoli 24 (coregia/codirectors aa.vv., ep. Porta Capuana, doc., 2010), La seconda natura (doc., 2012), Porta Capuana. La frontiera fluida (doc., 2018).
Cast
& Credits
director
Marcello Sannino
cinematography
Marcello Sannino, Sebastiano Mazzillo
film editing
Aurelia Longo
music
Riccardo Veno
sound
Pietro Iuliano, Giovanni Visciano
cast
Gerardo Marotta, Marc Fumaroli, Edgar Morin, Marcus Gabriel, Antonio Gargano, Irvin Lavin, Hans Georg Gadamer
producer
Antonella Di Nocera
produzione/production
Parallelo 41
TFF
prizes
