Country: Italy
Year: 1990
Duration: 5'30''
Dogged Around! takes five minutes to tell of a triple sentence: that of a hasty, insecure, and preevish lover; that of an overworked businesswoman; and that of a forgotten dog. Shut up in a house, the dog is caught in a struggle between his respect for his master's carpets and the thrusting stimulus of a full bladder In the meantime, the answering machine, which he has accidentally turned on, repeats the messages and misunderstandings of a whole day.
"If there is a moral in Dogged Around!, it is surprisingly obvious: despite mobile telephones and Concordes, we still have to know how to wait." (Valentina Torti)
Biography
film director
Valentina Torti
Born in Milan in 1956, Valentina Torti attended the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome. She has been working for years in France as assistant director for commercials. With Mitra Divshali, she made the short film Vampiro (chosen for the Venice and Oberhausen festivals). The first commercials she directed were PulImoll (1989) and De Agostini (1990). At the moment she lives and works in Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
Vampiro (16mm, 1981), Kit-Kat (35mm, 1986, Premio Label del Centro Nazionale di Cinematografia di Parigi), Mondo cane! (video, 1990).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Valentina Torti.
Director of photography: Raffaele Germoglio.
Editor: Annalisa Forgione.
Cast: Alessandro Haber, Anna Bonaiuto, Lidia Pirola, Robby Carletta, Daniel Richards, Katy Marchand.
Production company and Italian distribution: Metamorphosi, via Scaldasole 7, Milano, tel. 58104289, fax 89405658.
Director of photography: Raffaele Germoglio.
Editor: Annalisa Forgione.
Cast: Alessandro Haber, Anna Bonaiuto, Lidia Pirola, Robby Carletta, Daniel Richards, Katy Marchand.
Production company and Italian distribution: Metamorphosi, via Scaldasole 7, Milano, tel. 58104289, fax 89405658.