Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 7'
This is a promotional film of an April, 1991, dance performance choreographed by Monica Francia. This is the choreographer's second production with her fellow dancers. Previously, she was dancerchoreographer for solo dances and performances. The film brings together poetically the dances very fast rhythms and precisely synchronized staging its contacts, holds, and geometries. It accentuates them with a montage and cinematography which is sparse and evocative at the same time.
Biography
film director
Maria Martinelli
Maria Martinelli was born in Reggio Emilia in 1958. Starting in 1983 she made short films and documentaries about infanticide, war, immigration and youth aggressiveness, films which have been presented and won prizes at numerous international festivals. From 1994 to 1999 she was the director of "La Palazzina", the Center for Information and Communication of the Comune of Imola, which is active in audiovisual promotion, formation and production. In 2000 she made Gladiatori - Reportage sul cinema hard italiano, which tells of the contradictions and difficulties of a profession that walks the tightrope between work and personal involvement. She directed the feature film Amorestremo in 2001.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ammutinamenti da sbarco (cm, 1983), Klidas (cm, 1984), Vento divino (cm, 1986), L'Exangue (cm, 1987), Italia 90 - Lavori in corso (doc., co-regia, 1991), Cuori leggendari (doc., cm, 1992), L'uomo coriandolo (cm, 1993), Il profumo del respiro (cm, 1993), Ghertrude (cm, 1995), Pazi Sniper (cm, 1996), I bambini non lo sanno (doc., video, 1998), Decameron (doc., video, 1999), Lachrymae (cm, 1999), Gladiatori - Reportage sul cinema hard italiano (doc., 2000), Amorestremo (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Maria Martinelli.
Director of photography: Randall Harb.
Music: Sergej Prokof'ev, Evan Lurie.
Editor: Stefano Mordini.
Cast: Monica Francia, Catia Dalla Muta, Carlo Locatelli, Cecilia Vindigni.
Production company: ST/ART State of Art, via Scaletta 9, Ravenna, tel. 27614.
Italian distribution: Tape Connection, via P. Querini 3, Roma, tel. 5781104.
Director of photography: Randall Harb.
Music: Sergej Prokof'ev, Evan Lurie.
Editor: Stefano Mordini.
Cast: Monica Francia, Catia Dalla Muta, Carlo Locatelli, Cecilia Vindigni.
Production company: ST/ART State of Art, via Scaletta 9, Ravenna, tel. 27614.
Italian distribution: Tape Connection, via P. Querini 3, Roma, tel. 5781104.