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The Premiere at Cinema Odeon in Florence! Big emotion for young filmmakers Slow Movie Contest Massimo Becattini
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hen in the spring of 2012 I was contacted by Demetria Verduci and Duccio Trassinelli , to set the criteria of the competition they conceived and fill the role of " artistic director " , I wondered what could be the special value added a new event dedicated to "shorts ", a term now used for a particular type of audiovisual creation , which concentrates in a few minutes vivid " message" , entrusted to a short story by images and sounds, often intended to be seen only within the Festival. Today are many exhibitions in Italy that host the "short" and give them an ephemeral visibility. So I found out that the "Slow Movie Contest" differed totally from various festivals and Reviews : first of all because it proposed a specific territory and a theme, in this first edition identified in the towns of Chianti and in the theme "Arts and Crafts of the territory" . The second stretch of originality was that the "video" were to be made on site , within a week , after which the filmmakers selected should have submitted a " rough cut " substantially definitive , unless made in a second phase improvements of finishing techniques . So essentially the competition offered to young authors , between 18 and 35 years , the ability to deal with a theme and a territory in principle "virgin" for them, receiving in exchange a look uninhibited and a perception unconventional or relating to knowledge fixed in time by environmental practices . In addition, the international aspect of the Contest , could guarantee - in principle - the presence of young filmmakers from other countries and cultures , as well as exquisitely Italian or regional level, thus increasing the possibility of " contamination" between looks and different civilizations, and then the originality of the final works . The stay of selected filmmakers at the Macina di San Cresci , in the center of the area covered by the competition , and a presentation of the cultural peculiarities by individual Departments of Culture of the various municipalities, would guarantee to the directors an indispensable " literacy " ; then, without any constraint language or prior censorship , would entrust them with the realization of a personal vision of the theme. At this point, after the publication of the notice within the time specified , the works flowed with which each of the candidates submitted own "Identity" in the audiovisual field . Works have come from Italy, the United States , Spain, Great Britain ,
Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, France , Lithuania, Romania, Tasmania. The selection was complicated by the presence of a large number of high-quality work , and my work as a " selector " of the eight finalists was difficult , with waivers even painful for the professionalism and competence of filmmakers who had responded to the invitation . When the gossips in the industry say that anyone who makes a "short" , it is because there is no money to make a feature film , ignore the specificity of this new way of communicating , which is being increasingly acknowledged with its unique visual identity , based on the ability to surprise and excite with short stories told as in an aphorism - with a few essential features , often fleeting . For Slow Movie Contest , it was essentially to examine nearly 20 hours of material , which dealt with different techniques - from animation to computer graphics , shot in real life , the fiction more heightened - themes of life, psychological insights , existential paradoxes , etc. . , but all share a great technical mastery and visual originality often extremely interesting. The next phase, the realization of the " short " in according with the theme request by the Competition, led the eight finalists filmmakers - from five different countries - in contact with the Chianti region , brought to its knowledge - as we said - by the reports of various municipalities and - most important – by the personal sensibilities , which can add to the work something of originality and freshness that our eyes become accustomed to the beauties of Tuscany , could not take any more. The eight "short" made reflect a great diversity of ways of seeing , from the ecstatic gaze on the past, so fascinating for the authors of the most " young " Countries , to the interest for the curious or unpredictable characters that inhabit this territory , to the sense of nostalgia for slices of reality that in most other advanced industrial countries are now missing , to the search of a union with the "stuff" - land , houses, trees, - still possible. The movies have generally shown great sensitivity of the authors, who more interested in the work now obsolete of a craftsman, some more to the landscape or to people, but everybody respected the assumption of the contract : to provide " new eyes " for a ancient territory . In this meaning, the eight authors - which had been left maximum freedom of expression - have produced not eight commercials
of the Chianti - like maybe some municipal administrator less "open" would have liked - but eight eyes of author , even if contained in the effective size of "short" . The eight works , collected in a single DVD , after the "premiere " at the Cinema Odeon in Florence , will be proposed both in individual municipalities in
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the area of Chianti, and in all those contexts - local television Duccio Trassinelli networks, agriturismi , etc. . able to appreciate a portrait not hinking back to the banal or only merchandise of a " story" of SLOW piece particularly rich of our MOVIE CONTEST , region. from the idea born about two years ago to the present in which we are going to attend the premiere of the work of eight young filmmakers , we could not imagine the charge of enthusiasm, curiosity , professionalism and communication skills that each of them has manifested during week of shooting. When the Chianti the These eight young people are arrived in Chianti , some of them produces films had never been there and someone else had never even been in Italy ; what they made is the result of their sensitivity and Carolina Mancini creativity , their way of seeing and interpreting , their capacity for synthesis. Today, we can say with certainty that the main actor et’s go! Soon the result of Although, to be honest , in the of Slow Movie is definitely the Slow Movie Contest will Chianti there are those have artistic aspect that the eight be public . On November been initiated into the pleasures young filmmakers have given in 18th , at 20.30 , at the Cinema of Spritz! their freedom of expression. To Odeon in Florence , the lights MOVIE . The word movie, have identified young people for will turn on the 8 short films , which means films, derived a reading not conditioning , will their directors and the eight from the verb to move , thus give as result a product to municipalities in the Chianti that brings within itself the concept promote the area with values and hosted them this summer when of movement . For the Slow contents capable of arousing new they shoot their stories about Arts Movie Contest , 8 young interest even by observers who & Crafts. In the following pages directors have moved from are not only consumers of you'll find the reflections of the America , Ukraine , England and products already well-known. eight participants , written at the Spain , and from various places The field of action chosen is the end of the shooting of the short of Italy , and once arrived in Chianti area where the mental films . It 's fun to read what they Chianti, they left again to the overcoming of municipal and the activities p r o v i n c i a l b o u n d a r i e s i s have learned by that experience . discovery of We, too , after a year of Slow proposed , which often have f u n d a m e n t a l a n d t h e Movie Contest , we have learned been an opportunity to unearth i d e n t i f i c a t i o n o f the many things . Meanwhile, to new ones. Doing so, they municipalities located in this area understand better why the name . discovered that Chianti is in i s o n l y f u n c t i o n a l t o a SLOW . The slowness as a motion, and that many of those representation that compact the particularity of our territory has trades which would seem to have territory itself . So combine the been emphasized repeatedly by passed off instead still have a synergies ! the directors . The beauty and chance to survive and renew tranquility of our places can often itself through new technologies The topic of the first edition is " suggest an idea of suspension of and creativity of young people. Arts and Crafts" and in the time , especially those who come It’s especially this creativity preliminary stage was asked to from far away, maybe from a big that Slow Movie Contest seeks the Municipalities involved to city and is catapulted by magic in to stimulate. report the niche activities in their one of these eight charming CONTEST . Why there is a race , territory , avoiding activities too villages , surrounded by hills. Yet and there will be winners . We w e l l k n o w n a n d a l r e a d y what emerges from the words of stress , however, that will not be sufficiently promoted . This is all , this being apparently out of the individual municipalities to because the Chianti is a land of time mean to live it fully. This win . We discussed for long time g r e a t t r a d i t i o n s a n d t h e pleases us , because this Contest the possibility to assign or less enhancement must be extended has sense to exist only if it the awards, and we decided to to all the elements present in it . succeeds in telling our territory in yes, especially for their The country already known a non- stereotypical way, and symbolic value. The awards are around the world for the above all not to make a postcard : designed to motivate, to create production of wine , an activity nothing against the cards , of an atmosphere of upright that has given many years its course, but when we thought this c o m p e t i t i o n t h a t p u s h e s promotion to sophisticated project we knew that we were filmmakers to give their best . marketing strategies and various confronted with one of the most Reading their words , the organizations, must also be famous and celebrated place in impression is that each of them discovered and analyzed in its the world, and we were also has already ' brought home ' own iiiii convinced that there was much personal award . We also believe more to say and discover. This that the most important award , Ideato e organizzato da: first experience seems to prove for them and for us, is to sread us right . We deliberately decided their short as possible , in Italy , for example, to exclude the and abroad, in the world. In wine, which now fills the news : order not to lose the rhythm of this Slow Mov (i ) e. we preferred to fill the glasses and www.slowmoviecontest.org drink with our directors .
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folds , and in too many aspects sometimes overlooked . Who would have bet on Chianti as home of seamen ? The presentation of the short films will reward the directors for their skills , not individual subjects or areas assigned , what the eight filmmakers have identified and translated with audiovisual language will be shared heritage and the different aspects such because are deliberately programmed in order to arouse the most varied emotions to a wider audience as possible. This is the first objective of Slow Movie : highlight the artistic ability of the eight filmmakers who fell in an area sufficiently unique, seize aspects and different views and are able to convey to the viewer that perceptual variable which is one of the fundamental elements of the human personality and that goes well over the trend of globalization . The contribution that can give an Ukrainian instead of an American or an Italian will still be different and will constitute an endowment of new and innovative wealth to spread around the world. To meet and film the artisans has been the goal of focusing attention on the many minor activities , a world of passions , ideas and a lot of manual work , because it is true that the growth of a region and of a country is obtained while preserving and nurturing the treasure of certainties , but also by capitalizing on everything that contains an old trunk , finding and highlighting what is less known or perhaps just forgotten, in our case the activities less obvious and less redundant. . By making our own the words of Stefano Bellaveglia in the introduction to his monograph Artigianato del Chianti, we can say that this project aims to be "an instrument for those seeking the identity of the Chianti even in small things ." And if some young and less young , seeing these short films is passionate , wants to understand more and maybe pick up the baton of one of the protagonists of the shorts , this would be the realization of a dream , the dream of an Italy in which tradition and creativity are the engine of a upright rebirth .
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