Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 20'
Human portraits which find their voice in the industriousness of hands weaving canes into baskets and objects: these are the last artisans to conduct this work, which is doomed to end.
Biography
film director
Carlo Michele Schirinzi
Carlo Michele Schirinzi (Capo di Leuca, Lecce, Italy, 1974) is a video maker and artist. In 2004, his short All’erta! won an award at the Pesaro Film Festival, which then dedicated the 2005 retrospective to him. Over the years, the Torino Film Festival has presented much of his work: Astrolìte (2002), Il nido (Special Mention in 2003), Oligarchico (2007), Sonderbehandlung (2008), Notturno stenopeico (Best Italian Short in 2009), Mammaliturchi! (Special Mention in 2010), and Natura morta in giallo (2012). Eco da luogo scolpito was selected at the Venice International Film Festival. He presented his first feature film I resti di Bisanzio (2014) at Pesaro Film Festival and at Doclisboa.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
L’amanuense (cm, 2000), Il sepolcro (cm, 2000), Dè-tail (cm, 2001), Trappe (cm, 2001), Astrolìte (mm, 2002), Il nido (cm, 2003), Fuga da Nicea (cm, 2008), Notturno stenopeico (cm, 2009), Prospettiva in fuga (cm, 2009), Mammaliturchi! (cm, 2010), Frammenti da un confine (cm, 2010), Eco da luogo colpito (cm, 2011), Natura morta in giallo (cm, 2012), I resti di Bisanzio (2014), Eclisse senza cielo (mm, 2016), Deposizione in due atti (2014-15), Padrone dove sei (2019).
Declaration
film director
“To annul authorship when trying to archive reality, to only listen to the voice of the images, trying to cancel out one’s own presence, which is always an interference, above all when it declares it isn’t one… But it’s hard to observe through the lenses without enjoying that which you see. Canes, in the local dialect of Lecce paleddhu or pileddhu (from small hair), are plants that grow in swampy areas and just off the beaches. Since the mid-1800s, working canes has been the economic sustenance of many families from Acquarica, but starting in the 1960s reclamation of the swamplands, the arrival of new plastic materials and emigration marked the decline of the activity. Today, this art only survives thanks to a handful of women and men who courageously continue to ply their trade. Henri Focillon said that the hand is not the docile servant of the mind: it researches, it gets by in its stead, it traverses all sorts of adventures.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia/director, cinematography
Carlo Michele Schirinzi
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Sonia Cantoro, Maria Rosalia D’Alessandris, Lorena Maiorano, Simone Manfreda, Giuseppe Marino, Salvatore Massaro, Daniela Olimpio, Carmine Savogni, Carla Stasi, Rosy Trane, Carlo Michele Schirinzi (supervisore/supervisor)
montaggio/film editing Andrea Facchini
musica/music Stefano Urkuma De Santis
interpreti/cast Luce Nataletti, Salvatore Giulio, Francesca Luca, Cesare Siciliano, Patrizio Siciliano, Francesca Fiume, Maria Verardo
produzione/production Cartagine Multiservizi soc. coop. Comune di Acquarica del Capo, Regione Puglia, Bollenti spiriti
Questo film è stato realizzato dagli allievi del corso di cinematografia tenuto da Carlo Michele Schirinzi presso Cartagine Multiservizi soc. coop. di Acquarica del Capo (Le) nell’anno 2012, progetto inerente a Bollenti spiriti - Programma regionale per le politiche giovanili.
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Sonia Cantoro, Maria Rosalia D’Alessandris, Lorena Maiorano, Simone Manfreda, Giuseppe Marino, Salvatore Massaro, Daniela Olimpio, Carmine Savogni, Carla Stasi, Rosy Trane, Carlo Michele Schirinzi (supervisore/supervisor)
montaggio/film editing Andrea Facchini
musica/music Stefano Urkuma De Santis
interpreti/cast Luce Nataletti, Salvatore Giulio, Francesca Luca, Cesare Siciliano, Patrizio Siciliano, Francesca Fiume, Maria Verardo
produzione/production Cartagine Multiservizi soc. coop. Comune di Acquarica del Capo, Regione Puglia, Bollenti spiriti
Questo film è stato realizzato dagli allievi del corso di cinematografia tenuto da Carlo Michele Schirinzi presso Cartagine Multiservizi soc. coop. di Acquarica del Capo (Le) nell’anno 2012, progetto inerente a Bollenti spiriti - Programma regionale per le politiche giovanili.
