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Italy 2003; 106 min.
Italian Sud-Est is not a film about the Salento area. It’s simply a journey,
a journey along a border, like the ones we dream of when we’re children.
Well, like the ones we dreamt about when we played cowboys and Indians.
One day we got on one of these strange trains, we wanted to understand
where the Salento people were going. We got lost. We couldn’t find the
stations to get off. Just like a dream, a nightmare perhaps.
Salento, 2003. Caterina is roaming through Salento, extreme south-eastern
Italy. She travels on little yellow trains, the trains run by Sud-Est,
the local railway that traverses the province of Lecce. She talks to a
different person every day, a passenger, engine driver or railway worker.
Every day she listens to stories, voices, memories , tales of nomadic
tribes, saints and legends, but also accounts of injustice, deterioration
and abandon. She takes notes of some things on a tape recorder.
Caterina might be a journalist. At times she dreams...
(Source: Venice Film Festival)
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Cast and Crew:
- Directed by:
- Fluid Video Crew (Davide Barletti, Edoardo Cicchetti,
Lorenzo Conte, Mattia Mariani)
- Cast:
- Antonio Aluisi, Caterina Tortosa, Matteo Fraterno, Alberto Signore,
Lea Barletti, Gianni Monteduro
- Screenplay:
- Marco Saura
- Cinematography:
- Fluid Video Crew
- Editing:
- Fluid Video Crew
- Music:
- Brutopop, Gopher
- Sound:
- Gianluca Costamagna, Carlo Hintermann, Daniele Villa
- Presented and produced by:
- Gianluca Arcopinto, Amedeo Pagani, Fluid Video Crew
- Production:
- Axelotil, Pablo Storie, Fluid Video Crew, Produzioni Audiovisive Indipendenti
- Distribution:
- Pablo Film
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Biography:
An audio-visual production team created in Rome in 1995, composed
of theoreticians and experimenters of low-budget techniques who decided
to work collectively; Davide Barletti, Edoardo Cicchetti, Lorenzo Conte,
Mattia Marini have made some fifty films in video and S8, ranging from
counter-information news to documentaries on the international counter
culture scene. Italian Sud-Est is their first feature-length film blending
fiction and documentary with few compromises.
- 1995
- S.U.D. Suoni Uniti Differenti; C.S.O.A. La Torre cronaca di uno sgombero;
In diretta dal braccio della morte vi parla Mumia Abul Jamal; La grève
- 1996
- Frammenti per Roma; Sargeniscu
- 1997
- Ambrakovskij; Shquiperia-Albania
- 1998
- Spakka ‘na cifra; O.F.F. line tv; Balkanoff gli ultracorpi della porta accanto;
Com. Franko
- 1999
- Un'immagine del Che; Fluid video live set; Fuck you all (Fanculo a tutti);
Glen E. Friedman photographer; Storia di un paese normale
- 2003
- Italian Sud Est.
(Source: Venice Film Festival) |
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