9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1991
BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
by Cristiano Bortone
Country: Italy, USA
Year: 1990
Duration: 22'
Ray is assigned to transport a shipment of electronic material from New York State to Pennsylvania. On the road he suddenly decides to quit his job. He is pushed on by a sense of inner emptiness that he can't express and so keeps on driving his truck aimlessly. Caroline a young drug addict, asks him for a ride. On the road, Ray gives a ride to Doug, another social outcast who is impetuous and impatient. After various mishaps and arguments with his travelling companions, he is alone again and decides to go back to is work. Exactly when he is about to go out of the mountains and back on the road to New York State, the truck unexpectedly starts to act up. Ray enters a grassy field and the truck shuts off for good.
Biography
film director
Cristiano Bortone
Cristiano Bortone studied at the University of Southern California and graduated in film directing from New York University. His training included directing and producing numerous short films and assistant directing for feature films such as John Frankenheimer's The Year of the Gun. In 1989 he directed Antigone: Fear and Freedom (a lose adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy), the video program Letter from New York and the short film Loisaida (in the competition at the Hamburg Short Film Festival). Since 1990 he has collaborated on the contemporary art magazine "Opening", contributing art and media reviews. In 1991 he directed two commercials for the brand High Rise and a public-service commercial L'AIDS uccide, il pregiudizio anche.
FILMOGRAFIA
Antigone: Fear and Freedom (programma televisivo, 1989), Letter from New York (video, 1989), Loisaida (16mm, 1989), By the Side of the Road (16mm, 1991).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Cristiano Bortone.
Director of photography: Ethan Smith.
Music: Mario Galiano.
Sound: Shelley De Chiara.
Editor: Simon Malynicz.
Cast: Lee Wildjen, Ellen Barrett, Paul Fernet.
Director of photography: Ethan Smith.
Music: Mario Galiano.
Sound: Shelley De Chiara.
Editor: Simon Malynicz.
Cast: Lee Wildjen, Ellen Barrett, Paul Fernet.