Marana
Giovanni Benini, Davide Provolo / Italy / 2020 / 64 min / Colour
In Marana di Crespadoro, in the upper Vicenza area, live Max and Mirko, Lorenzo and Giorgia and many others, guests of the Villa Santa Rita community, which takes in minors with autism spectrum and behavioural disorders. Their voices and gestures emerge from the images, drawing an intimate and flamboyant portrait, like the mark of a stone engraved on the rusty iron of a barrel. Giovanni Benini and Davide Provolo's camera draws concentric routes crossing the bodies and the looks of the protagonists, pursuing a progressive abandonment to the time of singing and free youth. Theirs is a dancing camera that approaches and stops to bring out the words and gestures of the girls and boys of Marana. From the forest that surrounds the community, a space of struggle and fraternity, the camera takes us into dark, smoking rooms where one can dance and lose oneself, alone or in the embrace of another.
Giovanni Benini
Giovanni Benini was born in Verona (Italy) in 1986. In 2016 he graduated in photography from ZeLIG - school of documentary, television and new media with the documentary Per chi vuole sparare which was presented in competition, at the Visions du Réel festival in 2017. Marana is his first film as a director.
Davide Provolo
Davide Provolo was born in Verona (Italy) in 1982. After his studies in Cinema and Show Business, he began to study analogue photography with a training course at Fahrenheit in Milan, participating in various collective and personal photographic exhibitions in the following years. Marana is his first film.
Credits
Cinematography Giovanni Benini, Davide ProvoloSound Giovanni Benini, Davide Provolo, Matias CampaciEditing Pierpaolo FilomenoMusic Lite OrchestraProduction company Puma Punka+Ezme Film, Diplomart
Sotto l'alto patrocinio
Main Sponsor
Con il sostegno di
Con il patrocinio
