Country: Italy
Year: 2018
Duration: 50'
A factory pollutes a river and the people go on a protest march to protect their land and their lives. The river continues to flow but the forests have become deserts. The stories of two activists and an agronomist trace pathways in a landscape to be deciphered. A possible map for evoking ghosts.
Biography
film director
Alberto Momo
Alberto Momo (Turin, 1972), filmmaker and director of architectural documentaries, has presented his films at the major international festivals, including Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, and Montreal. He and Donatello Fumarola founded the production company Zomia and published the book of conversations Atlante sentimentale del cinema. He has collaborated with Rai 3 and Rai 4, and curated the film section of the 2014 Architectural Biennale, with a large installation at the Arsenale. His film Eliorama won best Italian documentary at the 2006 Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Todos os dias (cm, 1995), L’amorosa traccia (cm, 1997), Un’aria scura (cm, 2000), Il paese delle rane (cm, 2001), Liquido Atlante (cm, 2002), Ponti sospesi (cm, 2003), Fiaba nera (2005), Eliorama (coregia/codirector Maicol Casale, doc., 2006), Cut people/Amir Naderi (coregia/codirector Donatello Fumarola, doc., 2007), Ombre di Tosca (cm, 2008), Un canto lontano (doc., 2008), Playtime (coregia/codirectors Maicol Casale, Federico Ercole, ep., tv, 2010), Game Over (coregia/codirector Federico Ercole, cm, 2011), Un’architettura in movimento (doc., 2012), Casa Cattaneo a Cernobbio (cm, 2012), Bormida (doc., 2018), La scuola prossima (doc, 2020).
Declaration
film director
“Bormida is a movie which is to be considered like a landscape. It feeds off archives and creates maps. Like a landscape, it is a sedimentation of different gazes and eras. The place becomes narration, including sensorial and emotional narration. The film owes its genesis to the passionate work of a number of students from Turin’s faculty of architecture. It has been enhanced by the contributions of the photographer Andrea Botto and the sounds of the artist Alessandro Sciaraffa, who arranged the soundtrack. It was colored (in red) by clips from the Corporate Film Archives and frames painted by Paolo Leonardo. It is dedicated to Marina Garbarino (1960-2016) and to all those activists who took part in Italy’s first environmental battle.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Alberto Momo
sceneggiatura, fotografia/screenplay, cinematography
Laura Cantarella
musica/music
Alessandro Sciaraffa
interpreti/cast
Marina Garbarino, Mario Cauda, Walter Orsi, Francesco Cora
coproduzione/coproduction
Fondazione Matrice, Politecnico di Torino
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contatti/contacts
Zomia
diffusione@zomia.it
http://zomia.it/
Alberto Momo
sceneggiatura, fotografia/screenplay, cinematography
Laura Cantarella
musica/music
Alessandro Sciaraffa
interpreti/cast
Marina Garbarino, Mario Cauda, Walter Orsi, Francesco Cora
produzione/production
Zomiacoproduzione/coproduction
Fondazione Matrice, Politecnico di Torino
**
contatti/contacts
Zomia
diffusione@zomia.it
http://zomia.it/
