Country: Italy
Year: 1990
Duration: 14'


Italo is a little melancholic and a little disquieting. He spends his life between his omnivorous consumption of cinema and his existential anguish. What is imaginary in film and in his desire become physical objects, foods to devour with maniacal voracity. The willingness and visceral intensity to take on anything go up against the prosaic toughness of daily living and against the impossibility of fulfilling dreams which perhaps can only be narrated. His tales of love seem like plots of predictable films and the songs he listens to seem like sound tracks that speak of his purposely uneven and tormented passions. But the loneliness of daily life bitterly corrodes this universe that wanted to be "bigger than life".

Biography

film director

Enrico Verra

Enrico Verra (Turin, 1962) received a degree in Film History and Criticism at Turin University. He attended the school of video documentation directed by Daniele Segre and Gianni Volpi. He was the co-screenwriter of Luca Busso's short film, Da qualche parte in Italia; director of production in Daniele Segre's Manila Paloma Blanca; assistant director in Bruno Bigoni's Veleno; and unit manager in Guido Chiesa's Il caso Martello.

FILMOGRAFIA

You Gotta Move (16mm, 1989), Italo (video, 1990), Pannocchia (video, 1990), Real Falchera FC (video, 1991), Il signor Rossi prese il fucile (video, 1994), No Man's Land (1995)

Luisa Torta

Margherita Ferrandino

Cast

& Credits

Director: Enrico Verra, Luisa Torta, Margherita Ferrandino.
Production company: Cammelli Factory, via Cordero di Pamparato 6, Torino, tel. 747948.
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