Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 10'
In the same places where The Earth Trembles by Luchino Visconti (1948) was filmed, the Rodolico family has been building ships for four generations. If yesterday around these shipwrights a whole community used to gather and identify itself, today that world is disappearing because of the changing times. However, it is the wood that still preserves and builds the memory of a very ancient knowledge: the one of the last shipwrights. [cg]
Biography
film director
Daniele Ragusa
Daniele Ragusa Monsoriu (Italy) graduated in 2009 in cinematography at DAMS University in Rome Tre. He worked at the Palomar scenic segment for Raicinque television productions of Inspector Montalbano. In 2014 he worked for the film Tale of Tales by Matteo Garrone and in the same year he wrote and directed the commercial Always for Fernet-Branca. In 2015 he worked as assistant director for the film Quel bravo ragazzo by Enrico Lando and he directed the short film Giorno lento, based on the facts of the Aurora massacre, and two commercials.
FILMOGRAFIA
Giorno lento (cm, 2015), Last Ship (cm, 2015).
Declaration
film director
“Last Ship is the silent testimony of a now-forgotten memory. It is the story of a slow decline; of the inexorable passage of time; of something that only lives in the parched skin and wrinkles of people’s faces. The dead moments are, above all, the true story: they make Last Ship something like an old family photo album. The kind you flip through with melancholy, hoping that something of that primitivism might be safeguarded in our world, too.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Daniele Ragusa
soggetto/story
Daniele Ragusa, Davide Iacono, Carlo Distefano
interprete/cast
Gianni Rodolico
contatti/contacts
Cut-Up Distribution
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Daniele Ragusa
soggetto/story
Daniele Ragusa, Davide Iacono, Carlo Distefano
interprete/cast
Gianni Rodolico
contatti/contacts
Cut-Up Distribution
submission@cut-up.tv
www.cut-up.tv