Country: Italy, France
Year: 2013
Duration: 39'
A long voyage by sea full of expectations shattered upon arriving to dry land. The Fortress Europe closes its doors, revealing the hardness and the absurdity of its laws and its institutions. The perpetual wait, the violence against physical and psychological borders. This Super 8 film uses video footage and animation to portray once more the migrations of the Mediterranean Sea, trying to restore body and images to what we distractedly read in newspapers.
Biography
film director
Francesca Cogni
Francesca Cogni (Italy) is a videomaker and illustrator who works with drawings, videos, and animations. She founded the production company TooA with Donatello De Mattia in 2008, promoting artistic and cultural projects rooted in the territory: films, photographic researches, maps, flags, graphic works, board games, installations, workshops, festivals, encounters and exhibitions.
FILMOGRAFIA
Take Me, I’m Yours (cm, 2003), 7712632 (coregia/codirector Simona Bonini, cm, 2003), Fluxus (cm, 2003), Il giardino (cm, 2004), Oggetti migratori (cm, 2005), Odissee nella Laguna (cm, 2005), Mwanza casa mia (coregia/codirector Simona Bonini, cm, 2008), 42 - Storie da un edificio mondo (coregia/codirector Donatello De Mattia, cm, 2009), Pasta madre (cm, 2011), La nostra casa (coregia/codirector Donatello De Mattia, cm, 2012), Sui bordi - Dove finisce il mare (mm, doc., 2013).
Declaration
film director
“This movie stems from a strong political motivation that tries to seize a visual translation capable of posing questions, asking viewers to find their own way through the images. Finding a form wasn’t easy: the urgency of the issue at hand would clash with my intention of not speaking in other people’s place, trying to tell the story in a way that was explicitly personal; a reflection that wouldn’t impose, detract, or use other people’s stories to perpetuate a vision (in the media) dependent on the concept of otherness. It was a matter of understanding where I stood within this urgency.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, FOTOGRAFIA, MONTAGGIO
Francesca Cogni
MUSICA, SUONO
Donatello De Mattia
PRODUZIONE
Ginger TooA, Shurúq Film, Film Flamme S.A.C.R.E., Home Movies - Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia
Francesca Cogni
MUSICA, SUONO
Donatello De Mattia
PRODUZIONE
Ginger TooA, Shurúq Film, Film Flamme S.A.C.R.E., Home Movies - Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia
