43° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
FUTUR FESTIVAL - L'ARCA DEL DORA
by Eleonora Danco, Marco Tecce
Country: Italy
Year: 2025
Duration: 8'
Which part of your body is techno? This question opens the short film on the Kappa Futur Festival at Parco Dora in Turin. Moods, images, confessions, and abstract phrases arise from the moment and the atmosphere. Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg’s work, with his desire to work «in the void, between art and life». A tribute to Futurism, where techno music is a flying carpet, a tear, a premonition. Turin and Parco Dora: an ark that welcomes acrobats, dreamers, and the butterflies of the Futur Festival.
Biography
film director
Eleonora Danco
(Italy) Director, Playwright, Writer, Actress, and Performer. Her work embodies a visceral and physical theater, marked by impact and tension, where body and text merge into a single expression. Her writing navigates between prose and slang, drama and comedy. She debuted in 1996 with Ragazze al muro, followed by Nessuno ci guarda in 2000, and several other works over the years, including Me vojo sarvà, Ero purissima, Sabbia, Scroscio, Intrattenimento violento, Donna numero 4, dEVERSIVO, and Benvenute Stelle. As an actress, she has collaborated with renowned directors such as Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Marco Bellocchio, Michele Placido, Gabriele Muccino, Pupi Avati, Ettore Scola, Vittorio Gassman, and Gigi Proietti. Her first feature film, N-CAPACE, received two special mentions at the 32nd Torino Film Festival in 2014, competing in the official selection. In 2022, she directed the short films SubReal Urbe, Ostia Ostia Ostia, and Metro C.
She has published works with publishers Minimum fax and Skira. For Radio Rai3, she created the monologue "Non parlo di me" and the documentary "Il vuoto". She has been leading workshops designed for young actors and teenagers for over fifteen years.
FILMOGRAFIA
N-Capace (2014), SubReal Urbe (cm, 2022), Ostia Ostia Ostia (cm, 2022), Metro C (cm, 2022), N-Ego (2024), FuturFestival - L’arca del Dora (coregia Marco Tecce, 2025).
Marco Tecce
(Italy) pursues his passion for music as the singer of the Roman bands Skaters and Fango, and works in the publishing industry. He is the co-author, together with Michele Böhm and Emanuele Böhm, of the book Coglionario (1977). In the 1980s, he became a computer artist with the group Crudelity Stoffe, creating some of the first examples of computer art produced in Italy. In 1982, he took part in the Venice Biennale, and later created opening titles for the Rai TV program Mister Fantasy. From 1996 to 2012, he worked as a journalist for Rai, and from 2013 to 2022 he served as head of the Media Man office. In 2025, he directs together with Eleonora Danco the short film Futur Festival - L'arca del Dora.
FILMOGRAFIA
Futur Festival - L’arca del Dora (coregia/co-director Eleonora Danco, cm, 2025).
Declaration
film director
“When Alì Toscani called me to propose that Marco Tecce and I make a short film during the three days of the Kappa FuturFestival, I was thrilled but also hesitant—I had never been there, and everyone warned me it would be overwhelming. A hundred thousand people, seven stages, DJs changing every two hours. During the site visits, the emotional impact of Parco Dora was immediate. It felt familiar, even though I had never been there, like a teenager skipping school. It contained that embryonic sense of freedom and play I recognize. The steel columns seemed to ignore me, resisting the shots I wanted to capture. Framing it was not easy.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTORS: Eleonora Danco, Marco Tecce. SCREENPLAY: Eleonora Danco. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Matteo Ortili, Nunzio De Filippo. FILM EDITING: Marco Tecce. SOUND: Francesco Profeti, Guglielmo Francavilla. PRODUCTION: Alì Toscani per Smiling Sisters.
CONTACT: Alì Toscani alitoscani@me.com
