40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
OUT OF COMPETITION/DEI CONFLITTI E DELLE IDEE
L'IRRIDUCIBILE
by Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa
Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a terrorist who belonged to the far-right movements Ordine Nuovo and Avanguardia Nazionale, has been in prison for 43 years. A confessed criminal for the attacks at Peteano and Ronchi dei Legionari, in 1979 he turned himself in and revealed the connections between neo-fascism, Freemasonry, and the secret services, shedding light on the responsibilities of a State that, in an attempt to avoid arresting him, even tried to throw investigators off the track. A controversial figure, from his cell Vinciguerra continues to fight his personal war as a “political soldier,” to reveal what he calls the historical truth behind the strategy of tension. An obsessive war that he began fighting at a young age and that will only end with his death in prison, unless the State admits its own involvement in the season of massacres.
Biography
film director
Morgan Menegazzo
Morgan Menegazzo (Londinara, Rovigo, Italy, 1976) graduated from DAMS in Bologna and continued his studies in Rome at the Nuova università del cinema e della televisione di Cinecittà, where he specialized in filmmaking. He directed experimental films, documentaries, and video-installations. He participated to the Torino Film Festival in 2003 with the short L'amen. With Mariachiara Pernisa he realized works selected at the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome, at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, at the MART in Rovereto; broadcasted by television broadcasters and satellite networks such as RAI, Al Jazeera and Russia Today; selected by numerous national and international film festivals, including Torino Film Festival, Pesaro New Cinema Exhibition, Sightings, Haverhill Experimental Film festival and Experiments in Cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
Morgan Menegazzo:
Nicotine Cake (cm, 1997), Flores para los muertos (cm, 2002), Lo stato di imbarazzo (cm, 2002), Se scendi tra i campi di segale e ti prende al volo qualcuno (cm, 2003), L’acqua che pesa non viene dal cielo (cm, 2003), Il più grande pianista del mondo (cm, 2003), L’amen (cm, 2003), M capovolta (cm, 2003), La terra quadrata (cm, 2005), Radioes at an Exhibition (2007), Warology - Operazione l’Altra Guerra (2011).
Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa:
Rothkonite (cm, 2015), Iconostasi (cm, 2015), Merci de me répondre (2015), Obsolescenza programmata (cm, 2016), Psicopompo (cm, 2016), Prima che l’ora cambi (2017), Dagadòl (cm, 2017), Prima che l’ora cambi (cm, 2017), Dagadòl (cm, 2017), Coma Berenices (cm, 2018), L’irriducibile (doc, 2022).
Mariachiara Pernisa
(Lugo, Ravenna, Italy, 1981) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and specialized in editing and photography at the Griffith Academy of Cinema and Television in Rome. She has been making films, documentaries, and video-installations since 2001, presenting her work in festivals and shows worldwide. With Morgan Menegazzo he realized works selected at the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome, at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, at the MART in Rovereto; broadcasted by television broadcasters and satellite networks such as RAI, Al Jazeera and Russia Today; selected by numerous national and international film festivals, including Torino Film Festival, Pesaro New Cinema Exhibition, Sightings, Haverhill Experimental Film festival and Experiments in Cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa:
Rothkonite (cm, 2015), Iconostasi (cm, 2015), Merci de me répondre (2015), Obsolescenza programmata (cm, 2016), Psicopompo (cm, 2016), Prima che l’ora cambi (2017), Dagadòl (cm, 2017).
Declaration
film director
“The documentary L’irriducibile proposes to investigate the years of lead – a historical period that is still vivid in the collective imagination, obscure and hard to decipher, a trailblazer of our contemporaneity – and the generation that was its protagonist through the figure of Vincenzo Vinciguerra: the most emblematic of the 'die-hard' terrorists, as they were defined by the institutional apparatus and the media because they never repented for the crimes they committed and because they consistently refused to collaborate with the State, refusing any kind of relationship or possible benefit.”