Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 38'
Count Carl Ulysses von Salis-Marshlins was a Swiss botanist and naturalist who travelled extensively throughout his life, observing and studying the places he visited. In 1789 he wrote about his trip to the Kingdom of Naples, describing his visits to the Casino del Duca in San Basilio, Puglia. Anapeson depicts these places as they are today, sleepless and abandoned within the distracted modernity.
Biography
film director
Francesco Dongiovanni
Francesco Dongiovanni (1978) lives and works in Puglia. He has dealt extensively with topics like ethnography, landscapes, archives, memory, and anthropological cinema. He works for the production company Murex, which he founded with other collaborators. He made the medium-length films Densamente spopolata è la felicità (2011), Elegie dall’inizio del mondo - Uomini e alberi (2013) and Giano (2014). He also made the shorts Anapeson (2015) and Studio (2016), both of which were presented in competition at Italiana.Corti at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Densamente spopolata è la felicità (mm, 2011), Elegie dall’inizio del mondo - Uomini e alberi (mm, 2013), Giano (mm, 2014), Anapeson (cm, 2015), Studio (cm, 2016), The Riddle (cm, 2017).
Declaration
film director
“The Casino del Duca is an ancient palazzo, a cross between a palace and a manor farm, located in Sab Basilio, near Taranto. For two thousand years it was the beating heart of an entire region, as well as the focal point of the most important estate in Apulia. And today it’s nothing: marred, destroyed, and forgotten. But above all, this film looks at time, at its legacies and ruins. The story of the Swiss traveler from the 18th century evinces the contrast between its past splendor and current decay, deriving from a distracted modernity dominated by ugliness. History as a vestige and as death.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Francesco Dongiovanni
soggetto/story
dal saggio/from the essay Viaggio nel Regno di Napoli di/by Carl Ulysses von Salis-Marshlins
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Marco Cardetta, Francesco Dongiovanni
fotografia/cinematography
Vincenzo Pastore
musica/music
Pino Basile
suono/sound
Salahaddin Roberto Re David, Graziano Cammisa
interprete/cast
Salvatore Marci
produttori/producers
Cristina Piscitelli, Giovanni Antelmi, Massimo Modugno
produzione/production
Apulia Film Commission
contatti/contacts
The Open Reel
Cosimo Santoro
cs@theopenreel.com
www.theopenreel.it
Francesco Dongiovanni
soggetto/story
dal saggio/from the essay Viaggio nel Regno di Napoli di/by Carl Ulysses von Salis-Marshlins
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Marco Cardetta, Francesco Dongiovanni
fotografia/cinematography
Vincenzo Pastore
musica/music
Pino Basile
suono/sound
Salahaddin Roberto Re David, Graziano Cammisa
interprete/cast
Salvatore Marci
produttori/producers
Cristina Piscitelli, Giovanni Antelmi, Massimo Modugno
produzione/production
Apulia Film Commission
contatti/contacts
The Open Reel
Cosimo Santoro
cs@theopenreel.com
www.theopenreel.it
