Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 21'
What happened when the Italian photographer Vittorio Alinari and the French painter Gaston Vuillier discovered Sardinia in the early 1900s? The short film takes its cue from “Viaggio in Sardegna,” an exhibit organized by the Fondazione di Sardegna and dedicated to discovering the island and its charms through photography and the figurative arts.
Biography
film director
Peter Marcias
(Oristano, 1977), director and screenwriter, he made his debut with numerous short films presented at international festivals in Taipei, Giffoni, Istanbul, and São Paulo. He made his feature film debut with Un attimo sospesi, followed by I bambini della sua vita, which won the Globo d'Oro for Best Actress for Piera Degli Esposti, and Dimmi che destino avrò, which had its world premiere at the Turin Film Festival. He has directed numerous documentaries: Liliana Cavani, una donna nel cinema, presented at the Giornate degli Autori and the Moscow International Film Festival; Tutte le storie di Piera, at the Turin Film Festival and winner of the Nastro d'Argento Speciale; Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne, at the Venice Film Festival's Giornate degli Autori. Her works testify to a strong interest in cinema linked to artistic, social, and political themes.
FILMOGRAFIA
Un attimo sospesi (2008), Liliana Cavani, una donna nel cinema (doc., 2010), I bambini della sua vita (2011), Dimmi che destino avrò (2012), Tutte le storie di Piera (doc., 2013), La nostra quarantena (2015), Silenzi e parole (doc, 2017), Uno sguardo alla Terra (doc, 2018), Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne (doc, 2020), Uomini in marcia (doc, 2023), Looking For Nivola (2025), Quasi Grazia (2025).
Declaration
film director
“I was immediately fascinated by the Fondazione di Sardegna's project and the choices made by Marco Delogu and Maria Paola Dettori, the curators of Viaggio in Sardegna - Lo sguardo esterno. In particular, I was fascinated by the previously unpublished photographs by Paolo Ventura (a photographer from Milan, born in 1968), which he shot while he was living on the island, that dialogue between past and present with a selection of shots taken in the early 1900s by Vittorio Alinari and the magnificent paintings by Gaston Vuillier. The primary goal was to 'depict' the Italian photographer Vittorio Alinari and the French artist Gaston Vuillier, who visited the most charming corners of our island in the early 1900s. What happened when they discovered this land? That was my starting point.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Peter Marcias. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Micaela Cauterucci. COSTUME DESIGN: Filippo Grandulli. CAST: Elena Cotta, Emilio Puggioni, Daniel Dwerryhouse, Luca Cappai, Paolo Ventura.
CONTACT:
The Open Reel - Cosimo Santoro cs@theopenreel.com
