Marco Belelli, aka Divino Otelma, is a well-known Italian philosopher and...
Pierino Aceti is a man of fixed habits, a film lover, and is currently...
A couple of lovers lives together an entire century of life while objects,...
This documentary film is a portrait of a film critic as seen by a filmmaker....
Around Liegi, coal has been excavated until the 70s' to make the furnace of the steel factories work. Today, only an attentive eye can recognize what is left of the Collart mines. Sergio Stramare, who has worked for eleven years in Collart, remembers it well: a shopping center lies today where once there was the entrance of the mine, a newly built road separates the mine are...
The demolition of an old factory in the outskirts of Bergamo brings back to light the story of a workers' victory. In 1974, in the middle of an economic crisis, Lastex Yarn fired half of its workers. The factory is occupied and after months of protest, the workers show that the crisis is only a pretext to close and move the production lines to Malaysia, where the man pow...
In produzione Dal recupero di frammenti della statua del Buddha sulla cima di una montagna parte la riflessione sul paesaggio culturale montano.
Bissi farmstead, Romano di Lombardia, Italy. Maurizio and Ivan live next to Ornella and Maria Rosa. With some small cameras they tell us about their daily life, about their meals, their free time, the relationships in between them and with the social assistants who help them to organize time and housework. These fragments of independent lives tells us about another possible ...
Valleys of Bergamo, Nembro, Trevasco Quarry, 24th December 2010. A huge piece of rock falls down at the entrance of one of the historical climbing sites in the province of Bergamo. The production of Keep Training! twists and turns around the ignited debate of whether or not access to the Quarry would remain open. The directors gather interviews, anecdotes, opinions and fac...
The film is a mathematical calculation and, to come true, needs the support of the pataphysics. Sixty scenes, shot on Super 8, have been retrieved from the archive of Cinescatti, a project of Laboratorio 80 and Bergamo Film Meeting. The scenes are parts of simple footages about travels, domestic life, public demostrations and there are also some of them which were not meant ...
Daniela and Donato, together with some actors of Araucaìma Teater, visit the places of experiences that scarred them. From the dialog, some fragments of their complicated lives come to light. The landscape is a silent witness.
"When I get old, I will finally have time to read my books in the garden", said Enrico Cattaneo, alias "Ketto", on the day of his 90th birthday. It sounds like a joke, but it is instead a sign of the wit and vitality that still today characterize him. Born in 1917 in a well-to-do family, he has gone through the XX century in an adventurous and original way. A passionate film...
Above the ground: in the 60's, Mario moved to France and built his house in Landres, Lorraine region. Under the ground: while building his house, Mario has worked in a iron mine for 20 years. Today the mines are closed, the floods made the soil unstable. Hundreds of buildings crumbled down and some other are precarious. Mario lives a kafkaesque situation: for years, he has b...
The streets of Bergamo turn into simple songs made of a few chords and a lean voice that sings, and sometimes, shouts the daily life. The buildings, the squares and the tracks we followed remain visible. The noises are hidden in the deep rut of an LP and maybe in the thoughts of the person that put it on and let it play.
