Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 62'
Tamburi, the most polluted district in Italy, where Taranto’s ILVA has been created and where Cosimo, Tonino and Giuseppe, Resta brothers, have always lived. Lives torn between seaside and factory work, between fear for health and endless love for the land where they were born.
Biography
film director
Maria Tilli
Maria Tilli (Lanciano, Chieti, Italy, 1987), after receiving a degree in literature from the Università La Sapienza in Rome, made her first short Senza aggiunta di conservanti in 2011, which got her into Rome’s Centro sperimentale di cinematografia. In 2013 she directed her first short feature The Work in 2013, followed by the three shorts La campagna tace, Senza guscio, and Tutte le cose sono piene di lei, produced in 2012-2013 by the Fondazione Centro sperimentale di cinematografia. In 2013 she started working as a filmmaker for the production company Stand By Me and for the Italian production of MTV’s show 16 and Pregnant. She shot the documentary Al centro del cinema (2015) with a group of students from the Centro sperimentale and presented at Venice Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Senza aggiunta di conservanti (cm, doc., 2011), La campagna tace (cm, doc., 2012), The Work (mm, doc., 2013), Senza guscio (cm, doc., 2013), Tutte le cose sono piene di lei (cm, doc., 2014), Al centro del cinema (coregia/codirectors Gianadrea Caruso, Chaira Dainese, Davide Minotti, Bernardo Pellegrini, doc., 2015), La gente resta (doc., 2015).
Declaration
film director
“I remember the first trip to Taranto. It was night. The enormous lights from ILVA shone in the darkness […]. But what was even more striking of the massive steel monster was its breath: that rancid, sweet-and-sour smell that got stuck in my virgin throat. The dust has been eroding for years the houses, the people, the lands, the olive groves, the fruit trees, turning everything into dust. But underneath it all, there is still a spark in the eyes of the Resta family. A form of anthropologic resistance that sinks its roots deep into an almost ancestral past. After sixty years of destruction that turned the land into something like the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, history assigned them the role of starting over with the only thing left: the sense of community, an almost tribal community, non-corrodible, healthy.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Maria Tilli
soggetto/story
Laura Grimaldi, Maria Tilli, Lea Dicursi
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Laura Grimaldi
fotografia/cinematography
Juri Fantigrossi
montaggio/film editing
Giuseppe Giudice, Ambrogio Nieddu
musica/music
Geremia Vinattieri
suono/sound
Fabio Fortunati, Nadia Paone
Giuseppe Resta, Tonino Resta, Cosimo Resta, Iris Resta, Kekko Resta
produzione/production
Fabrica
Maria Tilli
soggetto/story
Laura Grimaldi, Maria Tilli, Lea Dicursi
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Laura Grimaldi
fotografia/cinematography
Juri Fantigrossi
montaggio/film editing
Giuseppe Giudice, Ambrogio Nieddu
musica/music
Geremia Vinattieri
suono/sound
Fabio Fortunati, Nadia Paone
aiuto regista/assistant director
Lorenzo Puntoni
interpreti/cast Giuseppe Resta, Tonino Resta, Cosimo Resta, Iris Resta, Kekko Resta
produzione/production
Fabrica
produzione creativa/creative production
Lea Dicursi
coproduzione/coproduction
Rai Cinema
