Country: Italy, USA, France
Year: 2015
Duration: 14'
In 1831, a volcanic island suddenly erupted from the sea off the southern coast of Sicily. An international dispute ensued, during which a number of European powers laid claim to this newfound “land.” The island receded below sea level six months later, leaving only a rocky ledge under the sea...
Biography
film director
Philip Cartelli
Philip Cartelli is a filmmaker, critic, researcher, and doctoral candidate in Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. His film and video works have been shown in international festivals, conferences, and installation settings.
FILMOGRAFIA
Philip Cartelli:
Three Ways to Cross a River (cm, 2010), Tour de France (cm, 2011), Promenade (cm, 2015).
Philip Cartelli, Mariangela Ciccarello:
Lampedusa (cm, 2015).
Mariangela Ciccarello
(Benevento, Italy, 1983) is an Italian visual artist and filmmaker. After living and studying in Italy, she earned two Master’s degrees, one in France, and the other in the US, where she currently teaches filmmaking in New York City. Her prior short films have been featured at the Locarno Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, Film Society at Lincoln Center and Harvard Art Museum among other venues.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lampedusa (cm, doc, 2015), My Little Napoli (cm, doc, 2016), Battleground (cm, 2017), Sublunary (cm, 2019), Calypso (mm, doc, 2021).
Declaration
film director
“The film is inspired by a 2013 publication by Mariangela Ciccarello, a collection of texts that, mixing fiction and historical sources, traced the story of the island of Ferdinandea from different points of view. When we started working on a film, we wanted to maintain a tension between true and false, subjectivity and objectivity. In part for this, we decided to combine the High-Definition color footage with Super 8mm black-and-white. The shooting took place in various Mediterranean locations. Traveling, we confronted the Mediterranean of today, so far and so close to this 19th century narrative. As a result we had the idea of constructing a work poised between documentary and fiction, reality and dream, past and present.” (P. Cartelli)
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia, montaggio/directors, cinematography, film editing
Philip Cartelli, Mariangela Ciccarello
soggetto/story
Mariangela Ciccarello
suono/sound
Philip Cartelli, Ernst Karel
voci/voices
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Mariangela Ciccarello, Joris Lachaise, Carlo Signati
contatti/contacts
Nusquam Productions
Mariangela Ciccarello
mariangela.ciccarello@hotmail.com
Philip Cartelli, Mariangela Ciccarello
soggetto/story
Mariangela Ciccarello
suono/sound
Philip Cartelli, Ernst Karel
voci/voices
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Mariangela Ciccarello, Joris Lachaise, Carlo Signati
Nusquam Productions
Mariangela Ciccarello
mariangela.ciccarello@hotmail.com
