Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 17'
In 1843, Andrea Lezuo, a woodcarver born in Arabba, a town in the Dolomites, leaves for “la Merica” onboard the ship Ehon. Through an anthological collage of heterogeneous audiovisual material, the film portrays the physicality of the voyage, as it traces an experience that is a sort of initiation.
Biography
film director
Giuseppe Boccassini
Giuseppe Boccassini (Terlizzi, Bari, Italy, 1979) is an Italian filmmaker mainly working in Germany and Italy. He graduated in film theory at the University of Bologna and in film direction at The New University of Cinema and Television located in Cinecittà, Rome. His work has been shown at several international film festivals and exhibitions, including FIDMarseille, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, Jihlava IDFF, Trentino History Museum, Pesaro Film Festival, Avvistamenti. His entire film production is distributed by Light Cone. By transforming and manipulating various sources of archival material, his work reflects upon the notion of the tactile closeness of contemporary media. His most recent collaborations include the film editing for Aldo Tambellini’s solo exhibition “Black Matters,” at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany and he is in charge of the programme at Fracto, an Experimental Film Encounter at ACUD macht neu, Berlin.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lezuo (cm, 2013), The Tin Hat (cm, 2014), Orbit (cm, 2016), Debris (cm, 2017), Temple of Truth (cm, 2018), La notte salva (cm, 2019).
Declaration
film director
“Compared to the contemporary world, the imagination of that era was less bound by the power of mechanical methods of reproduction, represented by photography, valorized exclusively in its objectifying deviation to the detriment of the other arts. Despite its precursors, cinema, in its path toward affirmation, had not yet achieved the final step for the perfect, realistic, mechanical imitation of man: movement. It would soon do so. In a certain sense, the film tries to relocate that visual dimension which is uncertain, shaky, and at the same time occult, mysterious, alive, and now lost, through a proposed aesthetic that comes about through the mixture of form and non-form, of the knowable and the unrecognizable, of reality and the imagination.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, MONTAGGIO, FOTOGRAFIA, SUONO, PRODUTTORE
Giuseppe Boccassini
Giuseppe Boccassini
