Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 10'
A mysterious red thread seems to bind the music of a Turinese independent band, an abandoned former mental hospital, the concentration of a martial arts master and the determination of a people in a struggle for their own homeland.
"I wanted to represent what I call 'places of suffering'. This video is dedicated to all those who keep on living their own irreducibility with courage, pride, and a bitter smile… and to all those born in the fifties (or before). If you look for them, you'll find them." (Claudio Paletto)
Biography
film director
Claudio Paletto
(Turin, 1954) lives and works in his hometown. Since the 1980s, he has created around eighty works, including short films, documentaries, urban installations, performances, art exhibitions, and museum displays. Many of his films have been featured at international festivals — including the Torino Film Festival, Rotterdam, Bellaria, Filmmaker in Milan, Montbéliard, Lecce, and Casablanca — as well as in various showcases (Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Banja Luka, Genoa, Eindhoven, Tunis, New York) and markets (Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes). Several of his works have received awards (in 1985 and 1993 in the Spazio Aperto section of the Festival Cinema Giovani, in 1990 in Immagini di realtà at Filmmaker, and in 1995 at the European Script Fund in London) and have been broadcast on television (Rai 3 and La7 in Italy, Canal+ in France, Munich TV in Germany). From 2001 to 2013, he curated the independent film series Strane Visioni at the Amantes Cultural Club.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rock contro il nucleare (coll., doc,1983), Ripresi (coregia Mimmo Calopresti, cm, 1987), Bordi taglienti (mm.,1989), Alla fine del millennio (doc,1991) Massimo rispetto (doc,1993), Filo rosso (doc,1996), Zona 18, Limon – Guatemala (doc, 2000), Gocce di mercurio (cm, 2003), Bambini d’Italia (cm, 2004), Walls and Borders (coll., 2009), Piccola italiana (doc, 2010), Neighbours (coregia Maddalena Merlino, doc, 2014) Acqua passata (cm, 2019), Lo spirito continua (cm, 2019), Imperfetto presente, voci dal primo lockdown (coregia Maddalena Merlino, doc, 2020), Souvenir de Paris (cm, 2025).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Claudio Paletto.
Director of photography: Pè Calopresti.
Music: Environs.
Editor: Pier Milanese.
Cast: Massimo Barcaroli, Malvina Paletto.
Production company and Italian distribution: West Front Video, via Plana 1, Torino, tel. 889091.
Director of photography: Pè Calopresti.
Music: Environs.
Editor: Pier Milanese.
Cast: Massimo Barcaroli, Malvina Paletto.
Production company and Italian distribution: West Front Video, via Plana 1, Torino, tel. 889091.