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TEMPORARY ROAD - (UNA) VITA DI FRANCO BATTIATO

TEMPORARY ROAD - (UNA) VITA DI FRANCO BATTIATO
by Giuseppe Pollicelli, Mario Tani
Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 70'


A long conversation with Franco Battiato, the recording of his album Apriti Sesamo, the performances and the behind the scenes of his last tour, in a film that tells the stages of an extraordinary human life dedicated to the pursuit of art and soul-searching.

Biography

film director

Giuseppe Pollicelli

Giuseppe Pollicelli (Rome, Italy, 1974) has been working as a journalist since 2002, specialized in comics, illustration, and animation. In 2000, he published Bonelli & dintorni with Daniele Bevilacqua, and Comicswood. Dizionario del cinefumetto with Andrea Materia. He has been collaborating with “Comic Art,” “Ciak,” “Il Mucchio selvaggio,” “Linea d’ombra,” and the newspaper “Libero.” Temporary Road is the first film he has worked on.

FILMOGRAFIA

Mario Tani:
Dies Irae (cm, 1998), L’anello di Moebius (cm, 2000), The Buzz (cm, 2001), Rumori di città (cm, 2001), L’affaire (cm, 2002), L’ospite (cm, 2003), Un certain regard (cm, 2006), Emigranti (cm, 2008), Le dernier combat (cm, 2010), Ad ogni danz (cm, 2010), Donne in emigrazione (cm, 2011).

Giuseppe Pollicelli, Mario Tani:
Temporary Road. (una) Vita di Franco Battiato (doc., 2013).

Mario Tani

Giuseppe Pollicelli (Rome, Italy, 1974) has been working as a journalist since 2002, specialized in comics, illustration, and animation. In 2000, he published Bonelli & dintorni with Daniele Bevilacqua, and Comicswood. Dizionario del cinefumetto with Andrea Materia. He has been collaborating with “Comic Art,” “Ciak,” “Il Mucchio selvaggio,” “Linea d’ombra,” and the newspaper “Libero.” Temporary Road is the first film he has worked on.

Declaration

film director

“No one has ever made a movie about Franco Battiato that told his long and multifaceted artistic and human path in a systematic way. […] Fans and connoisseurs wanting to study his art and its connections to the musician’s biography should do so autonomously; they should retrace the long journey (still in full and tumultuous progress) of the Sicilian artists, trying to understand that, as Battiato himself would say, ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.’ This film is meant to be more than just a documentary: it is aims to be a real feature, a complete work that traces the steps of a career that started over fifty years ago. A tribute to his artistic contributions, which unquestionably represent one of the most significant pieces of the mosaic that is the contemporary music scene.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Giuseppe Pollicelli, Mario Tani
FOTOGRAFIA
Nicola Saraval
MONTAGGIO
Alessandro Latrofa
MUSICA
Alessandra Latrofa, Giuseppe Policelli, Mario Tani
SUONO
Tommaso Danisi
INTERPRETE
Franco Battiato
PRODUTTORE
Mario Tani
PRODUCTION
MAC Film

CONTATTI
Mac Film
macfilm@pec.macfilm.it
www.macfilm.it

Mario Tani
mario.tani@tin.it
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