Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 100'
Italy, the near future. The old, overcrowded, and violent prisons are a thing of the past, now the prisoners serve their time in a state of deep sleep that renders them harmless. Hypersomnia is an economic and effective system because it has drastically reduced the number of repeat offenders. But not everything works the way it should: one day David Damiani, a prison psychologist, finds himself dealing with an aggressive prisoner whose personal file has been lost. A chain of events is suddenly sparked, forcing Davide to face up to the ghosts of his own past and to a conspiracy that will also involve Viola, the love of his life. He will discover that nothing is what it seems.
Biography
film director
Alberto Mascia
(Vicenza, Italy, 1978) graduated in Communication from the University of Padua with a thesis on the cinema of the Coen brothers, which latter won the Fernaldo Di Giammatteo award and was published by the editors Cadmo. He later received a degree in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He has written and directed various short films which have been selected for and won prizes at national and international festivals. These include Un giorno ideale (in competition at the Torino Film Festival) and L’uomo dei sogni (Best Short at the Rome Independent Film Festival). During those same years, he also made documentaries, video-reports, and video clips. Ipersonnia, which won the first edition of the Solinas Experimenta screenwriting award, is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
L’attesa (cm, 2005), L’ospite (cm, 2006), Fantasmi (cm, 2006), Dentro il mercato (cm, 2006), Il coro (ep. La solista, mm, 2007), Un giorno ideale (cm, 2009), La partita, (cm, 2009), Interferenze (cm, 2009), L’uomo dei sogni (cm, 2010), Ipersonnia (2022).
Declaration
film director
“Ipersonnia is a psychological thriller set in a dystopian future. The movie's narrative structure, the outcome of a long and stratified process of writing, revolves around topics that have always fascinated me: the impossibility of going beyond the limits of one's own perceptive horizon, the illusory nature of the concept of reality, the silent yet pervasive impact on us of the more or less hidden conditioning by the society in which we live. Ipersonnia brings together various genres: thriller, noir, science fiction ('soft' science fiction, more conceptual than visual, far from the clean and hyper-technological aesthetics of mainstream sci-fi). And, as it accompanies the viewer on a dizzying voyage through the meanders of the protagonist's subconscious, it aims to offer the public a surprising and thrilling show in a territory that is still little explored in the panorama of Italian cinema today.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Alberto Mascia. SCREENPLAY: Alberto Mascia, Enrico Saccà. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Matteo Vieille Rivara. FILM EDITING: Mario Marrone. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Fabrizio D’arpino. COSTUME DESIGN: Cristina La Parola. MUSIC: Federico Bisozzi, Davide Tomat SOUND: Vincenzo Urselli, Valerio Tedone, Giaime Grieco. CAST: Stefano Accorsi, Caterina Shulha, Astrid Meloni, Paolo Pierobon, Alessandro Gazale, Andrea Germani, Francesco La Mantia, Tony Laudadio, Giordano De Plano, Mauro Marino, Sandra Ceccarelli. PRODUCERS: Andrea Paris, Matteo Rovere, Stefano Sardo Ines Vasiljević. PRODUCTION: Ascent Film, Nigthswim.
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