9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Special Screenings 1991
IL TRASLOCO - VIA MARSILI 19
by Renato De Maria
Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 75'
It's moving day. Bifo waits for the moving men to arrive. He begins to tell a story a nineteenyear journey into memories connected to the house which winds its way through rooms, objects, and hidden angles. The memory of that place which now has to disappear is evoked from room to room. Bifo's story is interlaced with "apparitions" of the people who lived in the house in one way or another as residents or also as simple passersthrough, Short sequences of scratchy timeworn, blackandwhite images slip into the story as well as audio documents such as recordings of Radio Alice, or the Arabic cassettes of one of the last residents.
The rooms get more and more empty and even the war mixes in with the house's dramatic countdown. The furniture piles up in the courtyard, and the house shows its bareness as the story flows on to its epilogue.
"The idea of the film is in the facts.
The eviction order in Via Marsili was really without appeal. And for many reasons it was important for us to get to tell the story of the house before its definite closing.
The first is emotional and is so natural that it is useless to explain it. The second is ideological. The witness of a way of life was Io disappear with this house. This belonged to all of us and no one has yet managed to tell everything that was done and everything that was said in that house for what it really was, without reductivism or useless melancholy, and also without tear of claiming it all as one's own, with irony." (Renato De Maria)
Biography
film director
Renato De Maria
Renato De Maria (1958) grew up in Bologna, where he studied philosophy. In 1980 he started his career as videomaker. He directed Echi d'Occidente (Raiuno, 1983), a sixteen-episode surrealistic miniseries for the program "Mister Fantasy". He produced a dance video series with the Sosta Palmizi contemporary dance company (Raiuno, 1984). That same year he shot six shorts in London and Berlin for the program "0bIadi Oblada". He also works in advertising and won the 1987 Art Director Guild award. He directed a series of shorts (one of which was done with Wim Wenders) for the broadcast "Immagina" (Raiuno, 1989) shot in New York, Washington. Berlin and Frankfurt. In 1989 he produced Raoni's Return for the Rainforest Foundation, a documentary on the Amazon rainforest done with Sting and Raoni, a native American chief. In 1990 and 1991 he wrote and directed various documentaries, he made a videoclip with Vittorio Storianos photography for the Health Ministry, and finally he did the sign-on sequence for the program "Avanzi" and a promotional program for Raitre, "Sapore di Rete".
FILMOGRAFIA
Tapeshow (video, 1980), Trilogy of Banal Life (video, 1981), Stress Terapy (video, 1981), Echi d'Occidente (mini serial TV, 1983), Raoni's Return (doc., 1989), La città parlata (doc., 1990), Matti a parole (doc, 1991), Love is the Answer (videoclip, 1991), Il trasloco - via Marsili 19 (16mm, 1991), Lu Papa Ricky (video, 1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Renato De Maria.
Screenplay: Renato De Maria, Giampiero Huber, Franco Berardi.
Director of photography: Gianfilippo Corticelli.
Editor: Emanuele Angiuli, Stefano Barnaba, Renato De Maria.
Sound: Luigi Melchinda, Marco Iaquone.
Cast: Franco Berardi, Fabio Sabbioni, Alessandro Raffini, Massimo Carlotti, Claudio Burattini, Luisa Bombi, Dadi Mariotti, Paolo Scozzari, Angelo Pasquini, Mario Canale, Jeanette Jung, Giorgio Lavagna.
Director of Production: Enza Negroni.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: MonochromeArio, via Asiago 2, Bologna 40131, tel. 051232340.
Screenplay: Renato De Maria, Giampiero Huber, Franco Berardi.
Director of photography: Gianfilippo Corticelli.
Editor: Emanuele Angiuli, Stefano Barnaba, Renato De Maria.
Sound: Luigi Melchinda, Marco Iaquone.
Cast: Franco Berardi, Fabio Sabbioni, Alessandro Raffini, Massimo Carlotti, Claudio Burattini, Luisa Bombi, Dadi Mariotti, Paolo Scozzari, Angelo Pasquini, Mario Canale, Jeanette Jung, Giorgio Lavagna.
Director of Production: Enza Negroni.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: MonochromeArio, via Asiago 2, Bologna 40131, tel. 051232340.
