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Memory from the isle of death (2003)

Marilyn Monroe and Joe Di Maggio. Egon Schiele and Edith Harms. Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Walewska. Remorses. Regrets. Shadows of unfinished loves. In the loneliness of death only one monster emerges: their conscience.

Produced by
SAMANTHA CASELLA & ANDREA ISLER PRODUCTION

Directed by
SAMANTHA CASELLA

Written by
SAMANTHA CASELLA & RAFFAELE SCALESE

Starring
GIULIA VANNI (Maria Walewska)
MATTEO CECIONI (Napoleone Bonaparte)
GIOVANNI IZZO (Egon Schiele)
ANTONELLA D’ARCANGELO  (Edith Harms)
VERUSKA MONCINI  (Marilyn Monroe)
DAVIDE GEMMANI
  (Joe Di Maggio)

Cinematography
EMILIO BAGNASCO

Camera Operator
ALESSANDRO CALEVRO

Production Design
CLAUDIA DREI

Costume Design
NORINA BANDINI

Edited by
Davide Santi

Year:
2003

Running time
9

Awards

Nettuno Film Festival: Best Film, Best Actress, Best Costume Designer 

It was presented at the “Sitges International Festival De Catalunya” (Sitges).


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Don't close your eyes (2002)

A guy is obsessed with the doubt that his girlfriend is cheating on him and takes refuge in a parallel dimension.

Produced by
JUSTY PRODUCTION

Written and directed by
SAMANTHA CASELLA & MARCO GIANSTEFANI

Starring
LORENZO TAROCCHI (Man)
PIERA DABIZZI (Woman)
ALESSANDRO CIMINI (Devil)
TAMARA TONIONI (Demon)
CHIARA BERTONI (Child)

Cinematography
NICOLA GAMBERI

Production Design
CLAUDIA DREI

Costume Design
ISABELLA RAVAIOLI

Edited by
MARCO GIANSTEFANI

Sound
MASSIMO BALDUCCI

Year:
2002

Running time
14

Awards

Matera International Film Festival: Special Mention Jury Award 


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Frozen (2002)

A man is haunted by an ambiguous figure. It is the beginning of a nightmare with no way out.

Produced by
SAMANTHA CASELLA & SCUOLA DI CINEMA IMMAGINA

Written and directed by
SAMANTHA CASELLA

Starring
GIULIA VANNI (The Death)
MATTEO CECIONI (Man)

Cinematography
EMILIO BAGNASCO & FRANCESCA FRANCISCI

Production Design and Costume Design
CLAUDIA DREI

Edited by
CRISTIANO GAZZARINI

Year
2002

Running time
9

Awards

Camaiore International Film Festival: Best Director 


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Juliette (2001)

A priest goes to the cell of a girl sentenced to death to free her conscience. Juliette is not repentant, but the priest’s humanity pushes her to give voice to her drama.

Produced by
SCUOLA DI CINEMA IMMAGINA

Written and directed by
SAMANTHA CASELLA

Starring
GIULIA VANNI (Juliette)
DAVIDE GEMMANI (Priest)

Cinematography
GIUSEPPE FERLITO

Production Design and Costume Design
LAURA BUCCIARELLI

Edited by
CLAUDIA BERNI

Year
2001

Running time
10

Formato
Betacam / Mini dv

Awards

Nettuno Film Festival: Best Film, Best Actress Salerno

International Film Festival: Best Actress

Camaiore International Film Festival: Best Film, Kodak Award

Ravenna Film Festival: Best Actress

City of Ferentino International Film Festival: Jury Prize

European Film Festival: Best Film

International Festival Art and cinema: Jury Prize, Diploma of Merit from the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities

Massimo Troisi European Cinema Award: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress


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Ascesi

The faint light of a match is enough and inner demons are released, shadows full of sinister omens, like the rise of a flock of birds to tear through a leaden sky.

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Passion, meditation on the Christ

Attempt to reflect on the powerful and at the same time moving Christological works by Guido Venturini.

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Traditions

An expolaritive journey among the works of Sergio Monari.

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Self portrait with the Pope

A tribute to Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his priesthood. Vatican City in the Paul VI Hall. A painting by Pier Giovanni Bubani, a poem by Davide Rondoni, a video by Samantha Casella.

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Via Crucis at the Pantheon

On 11 September 2010 in the church of Santa Maria ad Martyres, commonly known as the Pantheon, a Via Crucis made by the sculptor Federico Severino was installed. The Stations of the Cross are represented by fourteen bronze panels and the ambo. The documentary follows the various work processes: from the creation of the tiles, to the casting, the chiselling and finally the installation. Of extreme prestige is the symbolic-theological advice of Don Angelo Pavesi.

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Coincidentia Oppositorum

On this journey into the heart of absolute time, Scardovi guides us with his hands. “My eyes are my hands”; he says to find some answer to the eternal question of origin and above all to ask ourselves in the pouring rain of doubt: will we be saved from this time on?

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In illo tempore

As evidence of the Collective Exhibition of Contemporary Art, proposed at the Rocca di Cento. The artists who signed the prestigious works are Maurizio Bonora, Ilaria Ciardi, Gianni Guidi, Sergio Monari, Giovanni Scardovi, Sergio Zanni and Mario Zanoni.

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Diary for images

Thoughts. Emotions. Art. This is the diary for images of Martino Neri.

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Solida imago

A brief immersion in the exhibition set up at the Palazzina Marisa D’Este, in Ferrara, which takes its name from the essay by Giovanni Scardovi, a work in which the author notes the manifestation of art in the contemporary world. The collective exhibits works by Sergio Zanni, Sergio Monari, Maurizio Bonora, Gianni Guidi, Mario Zanoni, Mimmo Paladino, Vittorio Mascalchi, Giovanni Scardovi and Luigi Ontani.

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From centuries of fire and drawings

At the 30th Rimini Meeting, an exhibition space is reserved for Peri Giovanni Bubani. Bubani’s paintings are accompanied by the poems of Davide Rondoni and the prestigious intervention of Giovanni Scardovi.

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Black desert

A procession of people, similar to automatons, embarks on a long march towards a beach. Only one of the members of the row notices the presence of an ambiguous figure who seems to have the gift everywhere at once.

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Boy down

The name of the song is inspired by “Little Boy”; or rather the code name that was used for the atomic bomb launched on August 6, 1945 on the city of Hiroshima. The play on words “Little Boy / Boy down” suggests the state of estrangement from which the protagonist of the video seems afflicted.

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Meetings of Jazz

A brief excerpt on the activity of some immortal of jazz who played at the Circle of Artists: Jonathan Gee, Susie Ibarra, Eric Friendlander & Topaz, Ralph Alessi & Don Byron, Stefano Bollani.

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The West according to Civitelli

A little portrait of the historical draftsman of Tex Willer: Fabio Civitelli.

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Saison Russe

In July 2003, director Dimitri Bergman brings the operas “Mavra”, “Kasnej the Immortal”, “The Queen of Spades” and “Lady Macbeth” to the Ravenna Festival.

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Mediterraneo

The activity of the sculptor Giuseppe Spagnolo on the notes of some of the most famous jazz players on the world scene.