9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1991
AL CINEMA GARIBALDI
by Carlo Roda
Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 20'
At the same time as movie theaters are closing, films are becoming commodities chiefly for the TV personal and public video collections are more and more gigantic, and those who study the cinema have to make do with the imprecise definition of TVs electronic image. And the celluloid film? How do the thousands of meters of film that make up the heart of the movies end up? It is a proven fact that today in Italy there are no extant celluloid copies of many films. At La Spezia, in a corner out in the provinces that has had a long filmloving tradition, a vacant movie theater was converted into a film museum-warehouse by a "crazy" film hunter. At Cinema Garibaldi is the story of a copy of a great film classic, the search for it, its discovery in a "potter's field" between Piedmont and Liguria where films are destroyed, and the measures taken to bring it back to life.
Biography
film director
Carlo Roda
Born in La Spezia in 1948, Carlo Roda is a cultural organizer active in the field of cinema for over ten years. Working at the Collective of the Image/Archive of Film, he helped save over eight hundred copies of films from destruction, most of which, otherwise, would have been fated to disappear from the screens. He has made documentaries set locally. With Fabio Carlini he has made Storie dal mare, lontane e pur sempre tra noi, about the La Spezia Naval Museum.
FILMOGRAFIA
Al cinema Garibaldi (35mm, 1991).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Carlo Roda.
Screenplay: Fabio Carlini.
Director of photography: Paolo Rossato.
Music: Gloria Clemente.
Cast: Loris Liberatori.
Production company: Collettivo dell'immagine, via S. Eutichiano 1, La Spezia, tel. 39668.
Screenplay: Fabio Carlini.
Director of photography: Paolo Rossato.
Music: Gloria Clemente.
Cast: Loris Liberatori.
Production company: Collettivo dell'immagine, via S. Eutichiano 1, La Spezia, tel. 39668.