Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 65'
Along the shores of a lake, man and a woman face together the autumn of their life. In a garden apparently located in Japan, a heron becomes the messenger of ominous forebodings. An elderly woman watches the innocent wisdom of the void. The meeting of two cultures and a love story that has endured the wear and tear of time, in the search for a deeper meaning to life and death, between the notes of a song and the verses of a poem.
Biography
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Yukai Ebisuno
Yukai Ebisuno (Portoferraio, Livorno, Italy, 1982), son of an Italian mother and a Japanese father, graduated in film studies from the DAMS in Turin. He started working as a set designer, and he collaborated with the cultural society Documè in 2009. He completed his master’s in documentary filmmaking at IED in Milan, making the short documentary Il lago canta. He then directed with Raffaella Mantegazza the documentary La cité de la lumière (2010); in 2012 they directed Honduras sin derechos and Spiriti, which won the Italiana.Corti section at the 30th Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Yukai Ebisuno:
Muovi equilibri (cm, doc., 2009), Bike vs Car (cm, 2009), Il lago canta, (cm, doc., 2010), Ortometraggio (cm, doc., 2010).
Yukai Ebisuno, Raffaella Mantegazza:
La cité de la lumière (cm, doc., 2010), Honduras sin derechos (cm, doc., 2012), Spiriti (cm, doc., 2012), Il lago (doc., 2013).
Raffaella Mantegazza
Raffaella Mantegazza (Busto Arsizio, Varese, Italy, 1982) studied photography and visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated in cultural anthropology and ethnography from the University of Turin. Besides working as an independent photographer, she also dedicates herself to art, exhibiting her artwork in personal and collective shows.
FILMOGRAFIA
Declaration
film director
“We wanted to try to tell a fairytale with the reality surrounding us, through a personal journey inside our family. We followed Yukai’s parents for three years, telling the love story of an Italian-Japanese couple that decided to grow old together surrounded by nature. For us, watching them was like looking at the present while imagining our own future. With time, the lake became our point of view, the center of gravity around which life revolved. Little by little, the rhythm of the seasons started articulating the story, transforming it into a universal tale on the passing of time, on love, and on not wanting to stop dreaming by playing.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, FOTOGRAFIA, MONTAGGIO, SUONO
Yukai Ebisuno, Raffaella Mantegazza
MUSICA
Kandagawa Japanese Folk Song, Daoyin Yangsheng Gong
INTERPRETI
Sumio Ebisuno, Isabella Cosentino, Eugenia Lupano, Yukai Ebisuno, Enrico Catalucci, Lorenza Rigoldi, Roberto Crolla, Carla Foglia Viviani, Cristina Viviani
PRODUZIONE
Il Piccolo Cinema
Yukai Ebisuno, Raffaella Mantegazza
MUSICA
Kandagawa Japanese Folk Song, Daoyin Yangsheng Gong
INTERPRETI
Sumio Ebisuno, Isabella Cosentino, Eugenia Lupano, Yukai Ebisuno, Enrico Catalucci, Lorenza Rigoldi, Roberto Crolla, Carla Foglia Viviani, Cristina Viviani
PRODUZIONE
Il Piccolo Cinema
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