Three evenings, one master and his best disciples.
Cinema returns to Sala Assoli: from Monday 3 June to Wednesday 5 June The novel of the real, on the cinema of and from Leonard DiCostanzo. Three historic documentaries by the award-winning director, who began his unmistakable creative journey towards recognition and appreciation in Europe and the world in the Spanish Quarters and the Teatro Nuovo in the 1980s, will be paired with three more recent works by young filmmakers who trained by attending his courses in film creation, starting from FilmaP's Atelier di Cinema del Reale.
Di Costanzo, defined as one of the most honest and profound narrators of our present, declares: “Reality is an extraordinary reservoir of stories. If you look closely at everyday things, you can find all the classic ingredients of the story: heroes, antiheroes, conflicts, victories and defeats. In reality everything is nuanced, shadowy, elusive, never clear or closed as it happens in the movies, so I run after it”.
The programming, created thanks to the collaboration of Film Commission Regione Campania, Parallelo 41 produzioni, Indigo Film, Les Films d'ici and Teatri Uniti, is presented as part of the Altre Visioni review, curated by Angelo Curti, in dialogue with the authors and protagonists of the works over the course of the three evenings.
The program includes Monday 3 June at 19.00 pm Procida, a project born to tell the story of the island, the magma and the energy of the territory, created by the twelve young participants in the Procida Film Atelier 2022 with the artistic supervision of Leonardo Di Costanzo and at 20.30 pm Odessa, by Leonardo Di Costanzo and Bruno Oliviero on the incredible story of the crew of the homonymous ship nave, abandoned since 1995 in the port of Napoli for the crisis of the Ukrainian shipping company Blasco, who survived for years in extreme conditions. Tuesday 4 June at 19.00:20.30 pm The disease of desire by Claudia Brignone, which documents the extreme and heartbreaking stories collected at Ser.T: drug addiction service in Fuorigrotta and at 5:19.00 pm, At school by Leonardo Di Costanzo, testimony of the social conflict between the students of the Nino Cortese middle school in Naples and the teachers and the principal, placed in defense of the only bastion of legality in the area. Wednesday 20.30 June at XNUMX:XNUMX pm Notes on my family by Caterina Biasiucci, the story of the evolution and change of a family feeling over the course of about twenty years and at XNUMX:XNUMX pm Prove di Stato by Leonardo Di Costanzo, a story from the inside about the daily effort of the then mayor of Ercolano, Luisa Bossa, to "bring the State" into a situation of conflict and clash that becomes a representation of need and power. The film will be presented in the digitally restored version recently made for screening at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Single ticket: 5 euros.
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ABOUT THE FILMS:
Procida was created by the twelve young people from Campania participating in the Procida Film Atelier 2022, funded by the Campania Region, promoted on the occasion of Procida Italian Capital of Culture by the Film Commission Regione Campania and coordinated by Antonella Di Nocera for Parallelo 41 Produzioni, with the artistic and pedagogical direction of Leonardo di Costanzo, supported by Caterina Biasucci, Claudia Brignone, Lea Dicursi. An intensive workshop held between June and July 2022, with students and teachers immersed in the life of the island and in the encounter with its inhabitants and their stories.
Odessa by Leonardo di Costanzo and Bruno Oliviero, is the extraordinary testimony of a chapter of post-Soviet history, through the events and memories of sailors abandoned on the Ukrainian ship Odessa, docked for years in the port of Naples. The ship, owned by a bankrupt company and therefore subjected to judicial seizure, was inhabited for years by a ghost crew that survived without heating, food, or salaries. The film follows their odyssey between life on board, hospitals, and courts in the hope of finding their dignity as men.
Claudia Brignone's The Disease of Desire develops in Fuorigrotta. In the background is the San Paolo stadium and under the A curve stands the Ser.T: a service for drug addiction. In a neighborhood that on Sundays is filled with fans, a place that holds the stories and lives of doctors and patients. For more than two years, the author has listened to the voices of those who try to escape from "addiction", defined by doctors as "the disease of desire". Everyone seems to have their own therapy, even if it often turns out to be just an attempt.
A scuola by Leonardo Di Costanzo narrates a cross-section of school life in the Nino Cortese middle school in the Pazzigno district of Naples. For an entire school year, Di Costanzo followed life in the classrooms, in the corridors and in the teachers' rooms. But the protagonists of this documentary are not the kids, A Scuola is a film about the teachers and the Principal who, with their commitment, their victories and their defeats fill the institution of compulsory education with meaning, still and despite everything.
In Notes on my family, Caterina Biasiucci creates a dialogue between family archive images from when she was a child and those filmed recently. The red line between the times and moments of the film is marked by an involution and evolution of love – broadly understood. The construction of a house, of a piece of furniture, of a family that slowly but inexorably crumbles. Love ends, but is reborn. The family transforms, Elisa and Alfredo are born and the red thread continues to flow, linking Caterina as a child and her brother, love takes other forms.
In Prove di Stato Leonardo Di Costanzo tells the story of the first two years as Mayor of Luisa Bossa, a former high school principal, elected in 1995 in Ercolano, a town in the province of Naples, plagued by corruption, administrative dysfunctions, unemployment and trials of the political class after the Tangentopoli investigations. Dealing with the big and small problems of everyday life of ordinary people, in action in her meetings and conflicts, Luisa Bossa shows all her determination to re-establish legality. Are Luisa's battles still relevant?
Article published on May 30, 2024 - 17:00 pm
