Country: Italy
Year: 2016
Duration: 83'
Rome, 1630-40. The baroque sculptor Francesco Mochi creates the Baptism of Christ for the church of San Giovanni Battista de’ Fiorentini in Rome. The client who commissioned it refused it, sending it on a peregrination from place to place that would last almost four hundred years. Rome, January 2016: a group of visionaries decides to bring the sculpture back to where it was conceived. Suddenly, Christ breaks a four-hundred-year-silence and speaks to John the Baptist. [mp]
Biography
film director
Fabrizio Ferraro
Fabrizio Ferraro dedicated himself to photography and organizing cinematographic cultural events, directing in 2000 and 2001 the Terzo Cinema International Film Festival. He then published Breviario di estetica audiovisiva amatoriale - Natura, immagine, etica (2006) and, between 2006 and 2008, he made a tetralogy of movies about amateurism, presented at various festivals, including the Torino Film Festival and FIDMarseille. In 2009, he directed Je suis Simone - La condition ouvrière, which received a Special Mention at the Torino Film Festival and was followed by other films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Je suis Simone - La condition ouvrière (doc., 2009), Piano sul pianeta - Malgrado tutto, coraggio Francesco! (doc., 2010), Ethos (verrà presto il giorno in cui gli attori e le attrici non crederanno più che le loro maschere e i loro costumi siano essi stessi) (doc., 2011), Penultimo paesaggio (2011), Quattro notti di uno straniero (2013), Quando dal cielo (doc., 2015) e Sebastiano (2016).
Declaration
film director
“The need to bring weight, measure, gravitation back to the place of cinema, in the face of the opaque tendencies of many contemporary filmmakers. […] The beautiful image for the sake of the beautiful image, seducing to seduce oneself, without any concrete element or information about the process, in its conflict. So we decided to make a true colossal in this new digital phase. To construct a colossal event which can put a few compositional elements of outside life back into the center of the image, to occupy that margin of time, of history, in order to encounter, finally, the dimension of beauty and its fragile eternity.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia, montaggio/director, cinematography, film editing
Fabrizio Ferraro
soggetto/story
Simone Ferrari, Fabrizio Ferraro
suono/sound
Simone Frati
produzione/production
Boudu-Passepartout
contatti/contacts
Boudu
Fabio Parente
boudu@boudu.it
www.boudu.it
Fabrizio Ferraro
soggetto/story
Simone Ferrari, Fabrizio Ferraro
suono/sound
Simone Frati
produzione/production
Boudu-Passepartout
contatti/contacts
Boudu
Fabio Parente
boudu@boudu.it
www.boudu.it
