9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1991
No war teatro di guerra
by Vincenzo Bergamente, Gaetano Gravina
Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 50'
«The war is over. Everybody or almost everybody, with a shaky and embarrassing air, has gone back to accepting his or her responsibility in the old and new battle fines and speech lines, be they emotional, political, or social. Now there are the ruins, the leftovers, the dross, the theater of war: i.e., all that we have seen. And all that we see is no surprise to us at all. 'And my Trojans believed what they saw, not what they knew'. These words of Christa Wolf anticipate a nonvisible theatrality of memory's 'ruins'. There is a memory that the common folks have together which has been fixed in the fragments from one of the most representatively ironic and genial figures in our universal film history. Totò's every unspoken word, every look, and every gag was and is a punch in the stomach, a violent attack on the rhetorical tyranny of a respectability which could not help but be eaten away by the acid of irony. We hope in a try at a smile, the promoter of peace, far from the memory of those ruins which we have not yet seen." (Vincenzo Bergamene and Gaetano Gravina)
Biography
film director
Vincenzo Bergamene
Born in Naples in 1954, Vincenzo Bergamene holds the chair of Design at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts. Gaetano Gravina (Naples, 1950) is an instructor of draftsmanship at the State Art Institute. They come from a background of militant artistic experiences. Now they run the firm Union Grafica e Comunicazione and handle mostly image coordination for public agencies and private companies. Further, they edit essays on images submitted to Videoculture, an international journal of the languages of communication.
FILMOGRAFIA
No war - Teatro di guerra (video, 1991).
Gaetano Gravina
Gaetano Gravina (Naples, 1950) is an instructor of draftsmanship at the State Art Institute. He comes from a background of militant artistic experiences. Now together with Vincenzo Bergamene runs the firm Union Grafica e Comunicazione and handle mostly image coordination for public agencies and private companies. Further, they edit essays on images submitted to Videoculture, an international journal of the languages of communication.
FILMOGRAFIA
No war - Teatro di guerra (video, 1991).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Vincenzo Bergamene, Gaetano Gravina.
Screenplay: Vincenzo Bergamene.
Disegni animati: Corrado Lamorgese.
Sound: TVS Napoli.
Editor: Riccardo Russo.
Production company: TVS Napoli, c/o Union Bergamene & Gravina, via Atri 31, Napoli, tel. 446967, fax 446967.
Screenplay: Vincenzo Bergamene.
Disegni animati: Corrado Lamorgese.
Sound: TVS Napoli.
Editor: Riccardo Russo.
Production company: TVS Napoli, c/o Union Bergamene & Gravina, via Atri 31, Napoli, tel. 446967, fax 446967.
