Country: Italy
Year: 2016
Duration: 6'
Eight tableaux about a girl getting ready for her first day of school. The images, captured by Paola Gandolfi’s father back in 1955, are filtered through a timeless and fairytale-like dimension. [cg]
Biography
film director
Paola Gandolfi
Paola Gandolfi’s approach to painting and video-making is connected to the female figure, to the psychic dynamics that define the identity of the female gender, and the slow social and historical transformations of the conditions of women in society. She was a prolific painter and sculptor from 1980 to 2000, participating to exhibitions worldwide, and, in 2000, she also started working with videos and animations.
FILMOGRAFIA
La recherche de ma mere (coregia/codirector Francesca Ravello, cm, 2003), Macchina Madre (cm, 2007), Elettricità nascosta (coregia/codirector Maura Manfredi, cm, 2011), In tempo per modifiche temporali (cm, 2016).
Declaration
film director
“I found a home video made by my father with his Pathé 9.5 video camera. It was my first day of school, and my father was recording me as I got ready. As I watched the footage over and over again, I realized that the real protagonist is time. […] The images flow into the present video, and I find myself caught between the woman I am and the girl I once was, when my mother would dress me for school and my father hidden behind the camera, watching and filming. […] Now I am the one watching, leading the game, changing it, and the only one left from that scene. I observed it, spying it frame by frame like a detective looking for clues to a crime. […] Making this short was like an archaeological dig. I did and said what I couldn’t do and say at the time. With sounds, signs, and the changes I drew, I gave a voice to my silent film.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Paola Gandolfi
montaggio/film editing
Marco Salvatori
suono/sound
Ermanno Ghisio-Erba, Stefano Di Fiore
produttori/producers
Paola Gandolfi, Patrizia Bayliss-Smith
contatti/contacts
Produzione 8 Production
Laura Catalano
paolagandolfi@mac.com
info@pr8duction.com
www.pr8duction.com
Paola Gandolfi
montaggio/film editing
Marco Salvatori
suono/sound
Ermanno Ghisio-Erba, Stefano Di Fiore
produttori/producers
Paola Gandolfi, Patrizia Bayliss-Smith
contatti/contacts
Produzione 8 Production
Laura Catalano
paolagandolfi@mac.com
info@pr8duction.com
www.pr8duction.com
