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24 and 25 June in Spoleto, in the off-space of the Spoleto Festival, by the well-chosen name of rossobastardo live space, the 8th Cinema Solubile will be held.
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You can find a stream of the Cinema Solubile pictures and infos online at the event facebook item: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=124185684282475&ref=ts
Th event of the 24 will be starting around 22:00 in the Osteria Rosso Bastardo, close by to Piazza del Mercato in Spoleto.
The event of 25 doors will be open at 24:00
BUT
Let’s start with order.
We have been scanning, as usual, for talents and film-makers for a wile, to make our list of invitation and fill it with 11 top film-makers, misfits, video experimentalists and 7th art fornicators… and made a nice list…
And
I asked myself just this morning, after reading the net for news (f*** the papers): “I have my flight to Italy booked for the 19th of June, will I be late for the revolution?”
And
Scanning the net I bump into the news that the Center for Experimental Cinematography of Rome has been occupied by it’s students. Guess what: the government is going to cut the school out, in a chaotic attempt to cut on expenses that does not touch the privileges of the powerful idiots that rule my (former) country…
And
I bump on Elio Germano and Valerio Mastrandrea (famous italian actor) intervention at the assembly of the school… he reports the words of his 90 year old agent, that after having fought a battle on the phone lets him sit down and says to him “ma voi quando e’ che v’encazzate?”. It translates from a nice roman accent like: “so when do you start to get mad?”. Valerio says also, “it is a good time for you, because Cinema is Dead, so is a great time to invent what it will be reborn into”.
I am not a fan of the Center. But I am of what it should be, that is all in his name: “Sperimentale”. Cinema is something you learn making and watching films. That is why you cross the street from the center and there is “Cinecitta’”. But to make good films you have to learn to risk with experimentation. It’s not it’s students to pay for years of clientelar mismanagement and for the opportunistic laziness of those that this Italian cinema have killed…
SO
I publicly invite the Occupants of the CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA to participate to the 8th Cinema Solubile edition in Spoleto.
At this moment I am trying to put myself in contact with their representant and find ways to give them a concrete possibility to express their perspectives. I will keep you all informed on these pages.
and also on if you want to help to spread the world on the damned facebook you can.
A great RED One frame of Alberto Novello as Sebastian; from “The White People”,
(DOP Victor Nieuwenhuis)
soon from CineSol production.
Directed by Federico Bonelli
DOP Victor assisted by Tarek
(more infos soon)
cast and crew photo (by Nicholas Le Goff)
We got blogged by Vladimir, you can find more photos from the set there: Off-Side.me
Stanotte, dopo una nevicata, girando per Amsterdam. Il parco, uno spettacolo che ricorda un po’ “l’annee derniere a Mariembad”… la selva oscura e io, lo zombi che ne esce…
The 2nd of December in the seenaatzaal of the University of Utrecht, unfortunately on invitation only…
A twisted story: a young man asks his girlfriend to “be kind” to his dodgy boss while he is dreaming to overrule his power and had strange hallucinations with mystical undertones. The boss invites the couple for a pizza and brings his mother along. The events unfolds to a darker end…
An exercise in no-budget style. Shoot in a week in the summer 2008 in Amsterdam. Mixes images taken with P150, photo-camera and digital SLR. The soundtrack contains original material performed for the film.
First short film written and directed by me not to be “solved” in a cinema solubile.
With: Maddalena Fragnito de Giorgio, Francis North, Vittorio Casanova and Dini Mosch Hendriks.
Photographed by Pietro Durante, recorded by Cecilia Dino, Costumes by Sara Bartesaghi Gallo and music includes Hansko Fisser, Dose Zero and The Stooges…
Since no budget film rely on people and all they get is glory please see the film till the end titles to get them all and give back your thanks…
I decided that a film is there to be seen and that all the rest is not interesting that much. All these festivals are obsolete anyway…
So Doppio Nero, the first real cinesol production film is being uploaded on vimeo, right now for anyone to watch.
I hope the quality will be good enough. Remember that is shot in DV to look odd and is edited to be seen on big screen (if you don’t mind).
The film is available on DVD if you like to project it, just contact me directly… Any suggestion, comment or rant is welcome :)
Back from a full force full days in the Orkz, the (h)ospital venue for the centenary edition of the Cinema Solubile of this winter. I will not repeat here all I have said in the previous posts about it, and pass to give space to the effort and the fragments of 11 brave film makers and to their work.
DISCLAIMER: Also this time, being alone in doing the speaker, the futurist professor and the film i have lost many bits and pieces of information. So please if I misspelled your name, forgot some detail or have no possibility of quoting you right, use your email program and write me the corrections, I’ll be happy to be your slave and fill them in.
Note on the following that the jury, composed by two hand picked random viewers that did a terrific work in keeping track of the evening wave of creativity, have given a star vote to a film expressing 3 votes (top 3 films). On this the audience have expressed, raising their hand, their own vote, that I report here by.
Kasper
(4 vp)
Kasper surprised us the first evening with a sort of multimedia equivalent of a garbage assembled air gtr and switches, piped through a mic and a sort of computer processor, a very funky coordinate of recycled hardware and software that sounded like… a guitar played with a hammer?
It was a wonderful noise add to the evening and I hope to get the bootleg soon (as for ll the first evening, i saw someone recording).
His film title I cannot remember had something to do with steel flowers. The film was good. I loved especially the flower. Kasper played with the orchestra with fun and is a great chap to add color to the show. Good to have you around!
Bernard
(* + 10vp)
“love turns to hate when you cannot see my eyes”.
Strong, psycotic, solipsistic, deformant, geometrical decline of a feeling into the opposite. Rage and obsessivenes in both the extremes of feeling. A quite futurist piece, very unbalanced, visually strong. A favorite of the audience and jury alike.
Michael
(9 vp)
“langzaam”
Very good acting, direction and concept. Waiting. Satisfaction about of ghostlike activityes. Performing a ritual. Michael adds a very variable dynamic touch to the evening, with his short movie and also with the playing. From painful noise to graciously distorted mandolin. He has many colors to give and we get also the picture.
Jan
(** + 16 vp)
“up to you”
Postmodern, self referential, lost, desperately funny. Jan is a great performer and we discover here that he can be next Jim Carry too: is face is rubber! Jan gets here the palm of the winner of the contest and also a small prize of a wine bottle that disappears and gets found back just in time to avoid him to pay a round at the bar. Good as usual the expressive layer added by the live-performed theremin.
Valken
(16 vp)
Poetic, dark, cold or very hot, a collection of beautiful shots made with mobile phone (i guess) of life after the fall of western civilization. So in this case very much futurist in spirit. Logs, cattle, cats, mud, repetitions, rituals. The message: live and don’t bother. I am actually looking forward to that. Great movie, possibly my personal favorite. Also the audience voted massively for it. It was a slap on public expectations not on the taste.
fredd
(* + 10 vp)
“the art of travel”
Hacked in less than one hour just before the show. It got many more votes it deserved. The trick? A very good recording of stone cutters singing under the sun in Puglia 1957, that I took from Lomax archives (hey don’t sue me, I have bought the CD original AND you stole the singing too). Soundscape is also in this case more than 50% of the result :). Other component a layer of mouth made bromfiets noises and some shady camera movements. And that’s it, here you have the ultimate road movie. The art of travel with your own lazyness. Anti-futurist.
Hansko
(* + 9 vp)
Hansko’s lanterna magica storytelling does keep the audience nailed on their seat. He sits with his laptop and starts a slideshow with his own illustrations while the music he composed for the film plays directly on the sound forge timeline. Hansko’s expression and storytelling conveys secure the feeling of urgency in the story. He reads from a book and takes his time to match the images. I watch the faces of the first line of viewers in the light reflexed from the screen they look, lost and fascinated. I seem the only one still believing is theatrical, they all into the film’s story, taken from this mislukte Hemmelin’ flute-maker.
Avik
(5 vp)
“Rob zombi”
Shot with a love for the rhythm of cinema and it’s possibilities Avik puts together a funny divertissement with the genre of zombi college movie. His main actor is well directed and casted and his expressions are perfect for the over-the-line hommage to Ed Wood. A great attempt to destroy anything holy in the art of film, but maybe too few in the audience appreciated the framing. Well I did. The shoulder shot of Rob trying to catch the fugitive shows the hand of a master.
Marcus
(2 vp)
“the art of war?”
Marcus is a kind man and shot is first film. He shot it directly in the camera, and was a great poetic film, about people, and things he love. The camera refused to cooperate and lost all between the first shot (a head saying “hello”) and the last (a kid saying “goodbye”). A perfect metaphor for the 100 years of futurism. To show something Marcus recorded 5 minutes of still in the exhibition space close to the cinema just before we started. Was a very good excuse to have a great musical improvisation by the unorosso orchestra. While smashing the tape Marcus managed to cut his hand and dripped some blod on the fragments of the previous films like to seal a pact between all makers, a bond. Marcus could have been a futurist soviet poet. I love you man!
Sander
(15 vp)
“I am old enough to masterbate”
Sander did a live cinema show. Now you grin and think bad. No way. He distributed some words between the audience and let them read aloud the camera while he was sampling the video. THen made the images play on screen with the orchestral improvisation and my reading of them to the apotheosis of pollution. Not a hebrew/catholic view on masturbation. It was like the tarot’s tower exploding in joy. No one flead, and was a good fun. Plus the fun has a added layer. The title he has got says “masterbate” not “masturbate”. So it is all a game of words? And what had in the end Sander done? He mastered his “bate” to have us all, as fishes, eat the hook.
Alberto
(* + 11 vp)
The title for Alberto was “Quixotic”.
You can immediately see from his film that the young generation of filmakers has a passion for documentary. To make a film for Alberto means to go around and use people to “act” a something. The quest for “Quixotic”. Pasolini meets Jarmush. A keen eye to typecasting, a funny use of himself as an actor, a strong concept and a speedy editing. One of the best artifacts we have destroyed so far. A little poetry would bring it to the next level. And having known Alberto, he is a man that will hunt the poet in himself to the better end of the path.
Unorosso have been:
Bass Alblas — bass
Fausto Casara — drums
Jan Klug — pataphone and theremin
Federico Bonelli — voices
and guest performances of
Kasper van de Hook — “name your thing here” and self assembled electronics
Michael “defenestrated” — mandolin and effects
?? — last evening we had also a bike and some bass by someone and i forgot his name…
Location
ORKZ Cinema Groningen, a five star cinema and a location populated by nice people
Weather
ICE/Snow/rain and some rays of sun
soon there will be pictures….
