40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
OUT OF COMPETITION/RITRATTI E PAESAGGI
IL MODERNISSIMO DI BOLOGNA
by Giuseppe Schillaci
Country: Italy, France
Year: 2022
Duration: 54'
By diving into the underground cinema of the Modernissimo, dug in 1914 in the bowels of Bologna and then abandoned in the 2000s, this film tells the story of an emblematic Italian city. Official archives of Bologna in the 20th century are intertwined with the personal archives of the protagonist, a father who speaks to his long-lost son. He dedicates this handmade film to him. Between his unfulfilled dreams as a revolutionary and as a filmmaker, this father retraces the family history inhabited by ghosts, and invites his son to Bologna for the reopening of the Modernissimo, the mythical theatre of a lifetime.
Biography
film director
Giuseppe Schillaci
(Palermo, Italy, 1978) lives in Paris, where he works as a director. He has made several documentary films for television, broadcast in festivals. He writes for the Italian literary blog “Nazione Indiana,” the French literary magazines “Atelier du Roman” and “La revue Littéraire” of Leo Scheer Editions. In 2010, her first novel, L’anno delle ceneri, was published by Nutrimenti Edizioni, candidate for the 2010 Strega Prize and finalist for the John Fante Prize. In 2015, L’età definitiva. In 2009 ha presented at TFF The Cambodian Room - Situations with Antoine D’Agata, codirected with Antoine D’Agata himself.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Cambodian Room - Situations with Antoine D’Agata (coregia con Antoine D’Agata, mm, doc., 2009), Cosmic Energy (mm, doc., 2011), Apolitics Now! Tragicommedia di una campagna elettorale (mm, doc., 2013), Tranzicion - Art et pouvoir en Albanie (mm, doc., 2017), Il Modernissimo di Bologna (mm, doc., 2022).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Giuseppe Schillaci. CINEMATOGRAPHY: FILM EDITING: Felice d’Agostino. PRODUCERS: Olga Prud’homme Farges, Gianluca Farinelli. PRODUCTION: Kolam Production. CO-PRODUCTION: Cineteca di Bologna.
CONTACT:
Cineteca di Bologna - Andrea Peraro andrea.peraro@cineteca.bologna.it
