Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 53'
The eighth district in Budapest is a low-income neighborhood that has both undergone and benefited from substantial urban renovations; the works, however, were interrupted in 2008 because of the economic crisis. Its demolished buildings are still empty spaces that fracture the urban fabric: so what can be done with these unused public and private places? The film ventures through deserted properties, courtyards, and houses to discover how inhabitants transform the common spaces and the face of the city.
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
“I didn’t want to leave there anymore, I had already been there hundreds of years before, but I had forgotten it, and now here everything was coming back to me. In that moment it seemed to be elsewhere, the goal of my journey to be reached. In the piazza I found the display of wealth, the passion for life that I feel in myself. While I was there, I was that piazza. I think I have always been that piazza.” (Elias Canetti, Visit to the Mellah, in Voices of Marrakesh)
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors ZimmerFrei, Anna de Manincor
soggetto/story ZimmerFrei
fotografia/cinematography Roberto Beani
montaggio/film editing Anna de Manincor
scenografia/production design Judy Becker
musica/music Béla Bartók, Massimo Carozzi, László Dubrovay, Jammal, Luciano Maggiore, Busa Pista suono/sound Massimo Carozzi interpreti/cast György Alföldi, Zoltán Erdös, János Jammal Fekete, Szilvi Kauker, Mrs Modori, Sàndor Mike, Gergely Nagy, András Pajta, Lorenza Pignatti, Busa Pista, Zsuzsi Szász, Samu Szemerey, Tamás Tavaszi, Emma Vidovszky, Tall Man produzione/production Placcc Festival coproduzione/coproduction In Situ
soggetto/story ZimmerFrei
fotografia/cinematography Roberto Beani
montaggio/film editing Anna de Manincor
scenografia/production design Judy Becker
musica/music Béla Bartók, Massimo Carozzi, László Dubrovay, Jammal, Luciano Maggiore, Busa Pista suono/sound Massimo Carozzi interpreti/cast György Alföldi, Zoltán Erdös, János Jammal Fekete, Szilvi Kauker, Mrs Modori, Sàndor Mike, Gergely Nagy, András Pajta, Lorenza Pignatti, Busa Pista, Zsuzsi Szász, Samu Szemerey, Tamás Tavaszi, Emma Vidovszky, Tall Man produzione/production Placcc Festival coproduzione/coproduction In Situ
