2019 – 60’
A film by Boato\Danesin
Direction, camera, editing: Giulio Boato
Original music, sound design, mix: Lorenzo Danesin
Line producer: Laura Belloni
Production: PAV (Rome)
In collaboration with: Kublai Film, Boato\Danesin, DOM-
From the original live-performance by DOM-
by Valerio Sirna and Leonardo Delogu
with Mario D’Amico and with Natalia Agati, Mattia Fiorenza, Matteo Locci, Marta Olivieri, Franca Vannini, Antonio Zuccari
A man walks for 5 hours through the city of Rome, from the Imperial Fora to the mouth of the Tiber river (where Pasolini was killed). The camera follows him at a distance, spying on him secretly without ever seeing his face. Through this journey (born as a live performance for 15 spectators per day, realized by the artistic collective DOM-), the city of Rome opens up to the eyes of the spectator: the contrasts between the center and the periphery, between concrete and nature, between ancient history and globalization. In the cinematic translation of Boato\Danesin, the camera becomes a body-spectator, to penetrate more in the substance of the landscape. The audiovisual rendering of the journey is the pretext for translating into cinema the very theatrical notion of “experience”.
2020: Competition at FIFA Art film festival (Montreal)
2019: Short Theatre (Rome), Totem Scene Urbane (Ferrara)