directed by Antonio Bigini, Claudio Giapponesi, Paolo Simoni | 2012 / 52′
a collective film marking the encounter between Home Movies and a group of writers. Enrico Brizzi, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Emidio Clementi, Ugo Cornia, and Wu Ming 2 created original texts inspired by the images of the National Archive of Home Movies, using them as an opportunity to experiment with new narrative forms. Through highly diverse approaches, five episodes with surprising outcomes converge into a single work, short films that, from time to time, transform into essay, short story, chronicle, and digression.
man woman stone by Enrico Brizzi
a mountain climb becomes a rite of passage into romantic life in a fiction narrative built from documentary images.
men on sunday by Emidio Clementi
the ritual of a Sunday football match experienced by a group of 1950s fans, revisited through the words of those who observe it today from a distance.
winter sea by Ermanno Cavazzoni
why do humans occupy that strange space called the beach? How does the sea reclaim it? An apocalyptic reinterpretation of the seaside holiday.
51 by Wu Ming 2
Amateur filmmaker Angelo Marzadori’s footage of a 1951 Festa dell’Unità becomes the starting point for a brief essay on Italian-style communism.
[Click here to watch 51 in full version]
roads by Ugo Cornia
a deeply personal journey along the roads of Emilia-Romagna through a whirlwind of car-mounted camera shots, memories, and jazz music.
production Claudio Giapponesi
directors Antonio Bigini, Claudio Giapponesi, Paolo Simoni
written by Enrico Brizzi, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Emidio Clementi, Ugo Cornia, Wu Ming 2
editor Claudio Giapponesi
2012
Fotografia Europea
Sotto le Stelle del Cinema
Premio Sergio Amidei
Festa di Cinema del Reale
Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival
Festival della Letteratura
Premio cinemaitaliano.info ViaEmili@DocFest
2013
Trento Film Festival
Terra di Cinema – Festival de Tremblay-en-France
Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema – Pesaro Film Festival
Euganea Film Festival
Lago Film Fest
Premio Marcellino de Baggis
a film by Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, produced by Kiné with the collaboration of Regione Emilia-Romagna
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