Country: Italy, France
Year: 2009
Duration: 82'
JE SUIS SIMONE - LA CONDITION OUVRIÈRE “I worked for a long time on this book by Simone Weil and for years
This is the diary which the French philosopher Simone Weil kept when,
as a twenty-five-year-old, she took a one-year sabbatical from school
and her studies and worked in a Parisian factory from December 4,
1934 until August 1935, running the presses at the Alsthom electric
company. This experience formed the basis for her book La condition
ouvrière. The written chronicle of her days is visually accompanied by
a continuous flow of dark rooms and the urban landscape of Île Seguin
(suburbs south of Paris), paying particular attention to construction
sites and factories.
I wondered how I could create openings, white spaces, in a text that
is written so forcefully, marked with such suffering, by the desire to
understand and find answers in the relationship between the exploiters
and the exploited, her awareness of being a pawn who is not permitted
to know the structure of the entire cycle. How to maintain a unitary
fragmentation that is transmitted in the book in the form of
reflections?”
Biography
film director
Fabrizio Ferraro
Fabrizio Ferraro studied film and the philosophy of language; he then dedicated himself to photography and has organized encounters and film retrospectives. From 2000 to 2001 he directed the Terzo Cinema International Film Exhibit. He then published Breviario di estetica audiovisiva amatoriale - Natura, immagine, etica (2006) and, between 2006 and 2008, he made a film tetralogy about amateurship, each portion was presented singly at various festivals, including the Torino Film Festival and FID Marseille. In 2009 he directed Je suis Simone - La condition ouvrière, which received a special mention at the 27th Torino Film Festival, followed the year later by Piano sul pianeta - Malgrado tutto, coraggio Francesco!
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Le variazioni del signor Quodlibet - Film studio in III variazioni (mm, 2006), Suite in amore - Alto/basso/sotto (doc., 2007), Malvisto Maledetto - Film studio in III durate (2008), Sopralluoghi all’inferno - Tracce audiovisive per il film su Simone (mm, doc., 2008), Je suis Simone - La condition ouvrière (doc., 2009), Piano sul pianeta - Malgrado tutto, coraggio Francesco! (doc., 2010), Ethos (verrà presto il giorno in cui gli attori e le attrici non crederanno più che le loro maschere e i loro costumi siano essi stessi) (cm, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia,
montaggio/
director, cinematography,
film editing
Fabrizio Ferraro
soggetto/story
dal saggio La condizione
operaia/from the essay
La condition ouvrière di/
by Simone Weil
costumi/costume design
Stefano Gaeta,
Fiammetta Mandich
suono/sound
Klothé, Morgan Bennett
interpreti/cast
Claudia Landi,
Giovanna Giuliani,
Natacha Eychenne,
Emmanuel Rovillier,
Kamal Boukarras,
Ilaria Tramacere,
Marco Teti,
Antonio Sinisi,
Yvonne Leclerc,
Martin Barriè,
Léon Mouquet,
Eugénie Forestier
produttori/producers
Fabrizio Ferraro,
Antonio Sinisi
produzione/production
gruppoamatoriale
montaggio/
director, cinematography,
film editing
Fabrizio Ferraro
soggetto/story
dal saggio La condizione
operaia/from the essay
La condition ouvrière di/
by Simone Weil
costumi/costume design
Stefano Gaeta,
Fiammetta Mandich
suono/sound
Klothé, Morgan Bennett
interpreti/cast
Claudia Landi,
Giovanna Giuliani,
Natacha Eychenne,
Emmanuel Rovillier,
Kamal Boukarras,
Ilaria Tramacere,
Marco Teti,
Antonio Sinisi,
Yvonne Leclerc,
Martin Barriè,
Léon Mouquet,
Eugénie Forestier
produttori/producers
Fabrizio Ferraro,
Antonio Sinisi
produzione/production
gruppoamatoriale
TFF
prizes
