Country: Italy
Year: 2017
Duration: 20'
“It is always, our eyes alone, our way of looking at things. Nature alone knows what she means now, and what she had meant in the past.” (J.W. Goethe, Aphorisms on Nature)
Biography
film director
Francesco Dongiovanni
Francesco Dongiovanni (1978) lives and works in Puglia. He has dealt extensively with topics like ethnography, landscapes, archives, memory, and anthropological cinema. He works for the production company Murex, which he founded with other collaborators. He made the medium-length films Densamente spopolata è la felicità (2011), Elegie dall’inizio del mondo - Uomini e alberi (2013) and Giano (2014). He also made the shorts Anapeson (2015) and Studio (2016), both of which were presented in competition at Italiana.Corti at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Densamente spopolata è la felicità (mm, 2011), Elegie dall’inizio del mondo - Uomini e alberi (mm, 2013), Giano (mm, 2014), Anapeson (cm, 2015), Studio (cm, 2016), The Riddle (cm, 2017).
Declaration
film director
“In this film, I was able to work on two fields of inquiry that really interest me: archives and landscapes. On one side, Ernst Haeckel’s drawings on forms of art in nature; on the other, my land. I never quite knew what to say whenever someone asked me what I was shooting, so I’d jokingly say that it was a botany film. Come to think of it, that definition is spot-on.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia, montaggio, produttore/director, cinematography, film editing, producer
Francesco Dongiovanni
musica/music
Roberto Salahaddin Re David
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contatti/contacts
The Open Reel
Cosimo Santoro
cs@theopenreel.com
www.theopenreel.com
Francesco Dongiovanni
musica/music
Roberto Salahaddin Re David
**
contatti/contacts
The Open Reel
Cosimo Santoro
cs@theopenreel.com
www.theopenreel.com
