Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 56'
«Dentro alle cose è un diario visivo che attraverso l’occhio della macchina da presa fissa ciò che vivo quotidianamente nel mio spazio di lavoro immerso nella campagna Salentina, un luogo che mi sono costruito e in cui abito coltivando un dialogo creativo tra natura, arte e vita. Tutto è ridotto all’essenziale, nessun evento straordinario, nessuna storia da raccontare. È l’ordinario, osservato attraverso l’obiettivo, che svela il suo mistero. Notte, giorno, buio illuminato dal fuoco, luce abbacinante, scrosci di pioggia, lampi senza tuoni, apparizioni femminili, il tempo che scorre… La mia costante presenza di osservatore è contemporaneamente dietro la macchina da presa e dentro al film. Girato in pochi giorni e montato in molti mesi di lavoro appassionato, Dentro alle cose è ricerca di se stessi attraverso il cinema. Vale però anche il contrario: per trovare me stesso ho “giocato” con occhi e orecchi aperti, dentro le cose che mi circondano. Dentro alle cose sono, io ma potete essere anche voi – il vostro ascolto, il vostro sguardo».
Biography
film director
Michele Sambin
(Padua, Italy, 1951), director, musician, and painter, in the early 1970s began to work with various forms of artistic expression in film, music, video, and paintings. Between 1968 and 1975, he made a few experimental films, with which he participated at encounters and international festivals in Italy, Belgium, and France. In 1978, he received a degree in electronic music from the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice and, at the same time, began to create performances, installations, and art tapes based primarily on televised images. His works have been presented at the Venice Biennale, at Palazzo Reale in Milan, in London, Vancouver, and Geneva. In 1980, he founded Tam Teatromusica and became its artistic director, making multimedia performances over the years with which he has participated at numerous events and festivals in Italy and abroad: Milan's Teatro alla Scala, the Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Wiener Fest Wochen… For ten years, he taught multimediality in the performing arts at the University of Padua and recently published a monograph about his work, Michele Sambin: performance tra musica, pittura e video, edited by Sandra Lischi and Lisa Parolo. He has also exhibited at MAXXI and MACRO in Rome, the GAM in Turin, and the Mart in Trento. In 2019, Raffaella Rivi's movie Più de la vita recounted his life and artistic pathway.
FILMOGRAFIA
Anamnesi (cm, 1968), 1e2 (cm, 1969), La La Brum Brum (cm, 1970), Laguna (cm, 1971), Blud’acqua (cm, 1972), Bricola (cm, 1974), Tob&Lia (cm, 1974), Murales (cm, 1974), Scala F interno 19 (cm, 1975), Film a strisce (La petite mort) (cm, 1976), Diogene (cm, 1977), Diogene 1977/2013 (cm, 2013), Presente continuo (cm, 2016), Dentro alle cose (mm, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“Dentro alle cose is a visual diary that, through the eye of the movie camera, captures what I experience every day in my work space deep in the Salento countryside, a place I built and in which I live, cultivating a creative dialogue between nature, art, and life. Everything is reduced to the essential, there is no spectacular event, no story to tell. It is the unspectacular, observed through the lens, that unveils its mystery. Night, day, darkness illuminated by the fire, dazzling light, rain pouring down, lightning without thunder, female appearances, time as it passes... My constant presence as an observer is both behind the movie camera and inside the movie. Shot in just a few days and edited over many months of enthusiastic work, Dentro alle cose is a search for self through film. But the opposite is also true: to find myself I 'played' with open eyes and ears, inside the things surrounding me. Dentro alle cose is me, but it could also be you – your ears, your eyes.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, STORY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, MUSIC, SOUND: Michele Sambin. FILM EDITING: Michele Sambina, con la collaborazione di Elena Bazzolo, Aldo Bisacco, Giovanni Sabattini. CAST: Pierangela Allegro, Isabella Volpe, Olga e Lisa Allegro. PRODUCTION: FAstoFilm.
