Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 24'
This is the first of a series of landscapes: portraits of the city based on the complex temporal dimension of the image in motion. The film depicts piazza del Popolo in Rome as natural set in constant motion; like the hands of a clock, the camera turns 360 degrees in sixty minutes. In an attempt to visualize time as matter in order to bring out the paradoxical aspects of its unbreakable bond with space, the camera reveals the site’s profile a little at a time, where oblivious pedestrians pass by weird narcoleptic creatures that are sleeping, looking, acting, living the architectural spaces, and sending mysterious signals. These are the visions of juxtaposed worlds that emerge from this continuous shot, like fragments from parallel existences, ominous of other life possibilities.
Biography
film director
. Zimmerfrei
ZimmerFrei (Italy) is an art collective created by Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor, and Anna Rispoli. It originated in Bologna in 2000, and has now spread to its hometown and Brussels. Combining cinema, visual arts, music, and performance pieces, the group’s artistic approach explores urban environments, both real and imaginary, searching for the boundaries between public and private spaces. While still experimenting with performance art, in recent years ZimmerFrei has been focusing more on artistic documentaries. The Torino Film Festival paid tribute to the collective in the Onde section of its 2012 edition, screening a selection of their work.
FILMOGRAFIA
N.K. - Never Keep Souvenirs of a Murder (cm, 2000), Presente Continuo (cm, 2003), Panorama_Roma (cm, 2004), Panorama_Bologna (cm, 2005), Panorama_Venezia (cm, 2005), Stone Money (cm, 2005), Controfigura (Body Double) (cm, 2006), Third Take (cm, 2006), why we came (cm, 2006), Teenage Lightning (cm, 2006), The Colony (cm, doc., 2007), Memoria Esterna (cm, 2007), Focus Puller (cm, 2008), Panorama_Harburg (cm, 2009), LKN Confidential (mm, 2010), The Hill (mm, doc., 2011), Temporary 8th (mm, doc., 2012), Hometown | Mutonia (doc., 2013), La beauté c’est ta tête (doc., 2014), Steadfast on Our Sand (doc., 2015), La ville engloutie (doc., 2016).
Declaration
film director
“Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future / And time future contained in time past. / If all time is eternally present / All time is unredeemable.” (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets)
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story
ZimmerFrei
fotografia/cinematography Francesco Raganato
montaggio/film editing Davide Pepe, Anna de Manincor
musica/music Vittoria Burattini, Massimo Carozzi, Stefano Pilia, Nicola Zonca suono/sound Massimo Carozzi
interpreti/cast Silvia Bambagini Oliva, Angela Baraldi, Cristina Baruffa, Fiamma Benvignati, Valerio Benvignati Bollea, Valentina Bernabei, Marco Berti, Valerio Bindi, Francesco Cabras, Silvia Calderoni, Paola Capata, Pietro Cappelletti, Francesca Caprini, Massimo Carozzi, Marco Carrara, Anna de Manincor, Peppe De Santis, Federica Di Giacomo, Ida Esposto, Morgan Mainardi, Barbara Mattei, Emanuela Meschini, Allegra Mori Ubaldino, Francesca Passi, Anna Piacentini, Emanuele Ponturo, Alessandro Procoli, Anna Rispoli, Alessandro Rossetto, Davide Savorani, Marinella Senatore, Antonia Tomassini, Fabio Torchetti, Marta Valente, Andrea Zanecchia, Francesca Zerbetto
produzione/production Monitor
fotografia/cinematography Francesco Raganato
montaggio/film editing Davide Pepe, Anna de Manincor
musica/music Vittoria Burattini, Massimo Carozzi, Stefano Pilia, Nicola Zonca suono/sound Massimo Carozzi
interpreti/cast Silvia Bambagini Oliva, Angela Baraldi, Cristina Baruffa, Fiamma Benvignati, Valerio Benvignati Bollea, Valentina Bernabei, Marco Berti, Valerio Bindi, Francesco Cabras, Silvia Calderoni, Paola Capata, Pietro Cappelletti, Francesca Caprini, Massimo Carozzi, Marco Carrara, Anna de Manincor, Peppe De Santis, Federica Di Giacomo, Ida Esposto, Morgan Mainardi, Barbara Mattei, Emanuela Meschini, Allegra Mori Ubaldino, Francesca Passi, Anna Piacentini, Emanuele Ponturo, Alessandro Procoli, Anna Rispoli, Alessandro Rossetto, Davide Savorani, Marinella Senatore, Antonia Tomassini, Fabio Torchetti, Marta Valente, Andrea Zanecchia, Francesca Zerbetto
produzione/production Monitor
