Country: Italy
Year: 2014
Duration: 81'
Abacuc lives in a railway house, with a garden circumscribed by the train tracks. He doesn’t speak a word, but distant voices can be heard from the phone. He spends his days walking around the cemetery, the only comforting place that seems to shelter him from the city. The man wanders among the tombstones corroded by time, seeking long forgotten names that bring him back to a time forever gone. He’s “the last man,” maybe a survivor.
Biography
film director
Luca Ferri
Luca Ferri works with images and words. His movies partecipated to national and international film festivals. At Torino Film Festival he was selected in 2013, in Italiana.doc competition, with the documentary Habitat [Piavoli], codirected with Claudio Casazza, and in 2014 and 2015 in Onde section, with the following Abacuc and the short La società dei servizi, directed with Enrico Mazzi. In 2016 his short Colombi was selected at the Orizzonti section in Venice. Dulcinea has been part of Signs of Life section, in the last Locarno Film Festival. Pierino (2018) was selected at Filmmaker Mina, and then the documentary feature La casa dell'amore premiered at Berlinale Forum in 2020.
FILMOGRAFIA
Educere Movere Billiardo (mm, 2004), Anna vs Oliva (mm, 2004), Ergonomia culanda (mm, 2005), Scano Boa (mm, 2005), Fiori di Broca (mm, 2005), Dodoanimaleinettoal (2005), Di nuovo giggi e il rattan (cm, 2007), Magog [o epifania del barbagianni] (cm, 2011), Ecce Ubu (2012), Kaputt/Katastrophe (cm, 2012), Habitat [Piavoli] (coregia Claudio Casazza, doc., 2013), Abacuc (2014), La società dei servizi (coregia Enrico Mazzi, cm, 2015), Colombi (cm, 2016), Ab ovo (cm, 2017), Dulcinea (2018), Pierino (doc., 2018), Sì (cm, 2021), Mille cipressi (cm, 2021), Vita terrena di Amleto Marco Belelli (doc, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“The idea for the film originated from the monumental nature of ruins. Ruins and monuments, fused in the same body, condensed in one sight. Mindful of the debris of avant-garde movements, I don’t want to give into the seduction of this new form of classicism masked under new guises and stories. So here is a motionless and photographic film, where camera and narration are no longer required to move. The preexisting reality is documented without any pretense for truth. Fiction and documentary exceed their boundaries and come together in other realms, like the world of puppet shows, theatre of the absurd, and photography.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Luca Ferri
fotografia/cinematography
Giulia Vallicelli
montaggio/film editing
Alberto Valtellina
musica/music
Dario Agazzi
interprete/cast
Dario Bacis
produttore/producer
Angelo Signorelli
produzione/production
Lab 80 film
Luca Ferri
fotografia/cinematography
Giulia Vallicelli
montaggio/film editing
Alberto Valtellina
musica/music
Dario Agazzi
interprete/cast
Dario Bacis
produttore/producer
Angelo Signorelli
produzione/production
Lab 80 film
contatti/contacts
