Country: Italy
Year: 2016
Duration: 67'
“My father got out of my life when I was little more than a year old. Since then, I never wanted to know anything about him and several times, as I was growing up, I refused to meet him. But after finding a voice mail from him, I finally decided to let people tell me a bit more, before leaving on a long and solitary journey through Sicily, convinced I’d manage to track him down, meet with him and record everything with a movie camera.” [rm]
Biography
film director
Enrico Maria Artale
Enrico Maria Artale (Rome, Italy, 1984) graduated in aesthetics from the department of philosophy of the Università di Roma La Sapienza and then received a degree in directing from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia. In 2009, he directed the TV documentary I Giganti dell’Aquila, which aired on Raitre. He has written and directed various short films which have won international prizes, and his film Il respiro dell’arco (2012) won a Silver Ribbon for Best Short Film. In 2013, he presented his first feature film, The Third Half, in the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival; the movie received the Pasinetti Award for Best First Film, awarded by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. In recent years, he has directed a number of documentaries for Sky Arte and has curated educational laboratories on film and self-narration.
FILMOGRAFIA
Allegro compreso (cm, 2009), I Giganti dell’Aquila (doc., tv, 2009), Hai in mano il tuo futuro! (cm, 2010), Il respiro dell’arco (cm, 2012), Il terzo tempo (2013), Sei in un Paese meraviglioso (doc., serie tv/tv series, 2015), Saro (doc., 2016).
Declaration
film director
“I shot the material used in this film when I was twenty-five years old. Then, I locked it all up in a drawer and five more years passed before I decided to take another look at it. It was something therapeutic and necessary for me: I shot the film to overcome a psychological block, and I edited it to re-elaborate emotions I had initially refused to accept. Emotions and questions which I discovered were universal and finally sharable. Thus, filmmaking became an enabling condition of the experience, an interior thrust of life itself.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer
Enrico Maria Artale
montaggio/film editing
Valeria Sapienza
musica/music
Emanuele De Raymondi, Marco Messina
suono/sound
Gianluca Palma
interpreti/cast
Enrico Maria Artale, Daniel Mejia Vargas, Sarah Sammartino, Giuseppe Sammartino, Maria Luisa Artale, Silvia Alù, Marco Morana, Saro Sardo Infirri
produttori associati/associate producers
Carla Altieri, Roberto De Paolis, Ognjen Dizdarevic, Luca Pancaldi
produzione/production
Film After Film
contatti/contacts
Film After Film
Enrico Maria Artale
Enrico Maria Artale
montaggio/film editing
Valeria Sapienza
musica/music
Emanuele De Raymondi, Marco Messina
suono/sound
Gianluca Palma
interpreti/cast
Enrico Maria Artale, Daniel Mejia Vargas, Sarah Sammartino, Giuseppe Sammartino, Maria Luisa Artale, Silvia Alù, Marco Morana, Saro Sardo Infirri
produttori associati/associate producers
Carla Altieri, Roberto De Paolis, Ognjen Dizdarevic, Luca Pancaldi
produzione/production
Film After Film
contatti/contacts
Film After Film
Enrico Maria Artale
