34° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIANA.CORTI

NOTTURNO

NOTTURNO
by Clemente Bicocchi
Country: Italy
Year: 2016
Duration: 10'


Images from another planet. A far away world, seemingly identical to ours in every way but for one: the constant daylight shining all the time, everywhere. Every two thousand years, though, the planet plunges into darkness. That time is about to come… A herd of goats grazing in the remote bay of a Greek island at sunset can become the inspiration for a visionary and metaphysical journey. [cg]

Biography

film director

Clemente Bicocchi

Clemente Bicocchi has been making documentaries and experimental shorts since 1998. His documentaries include: Educazione affettiva, screened in many movie theaters throughout Italy, and Africa nera marmo bianco, which received many awards from the Annecy Film Festival, the Cambridge Film Festival, the Berlin Independent Film Festival, and the Africa World Documentary Film Festival. The documentary also participated in several other international film festivals and competitions, from the Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo, to the New York African Film Festival, among others.

FILMOGRAFIA

Africa nera marmo bianco (2012), Educazione affettiva (coregia/codirector Federico Bondi, doc., 2015), Notturno (cm, 2016).

Declaration

film director

“I was in Greece and I happened to witness a magical event, which immediately reminded me of one of Asimov’s stories that always enthralled and perturbed me. I knew I had to get back to that place to take some footage, it became a fixed idea. Two years later, I managed to put together all the equipment. I flew back to Cephalonia, rode a scooter for two hours, climbed up a steep path through the underbrush, and found myself perched on a cliff by the sea, waiting… All this to make a short sci-fi film about a herd of goats crossing a desolate bay at sunset. Sometimes you have to chase your visions.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio/director, screenplay, cinematography, film editing
Clemente Bicocchi
soggetto/story
liberamente ispirato all’omonimo racconto di/loosely based on Nightfall by Isac Asimov


contatti/contacts
Clemente Bicocchi
clemente.bicocchi@gmail.com
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