Viaggio nel crepuscolo (Journey into the Twilight)

Viaggio nel crepuscolo explores the roads that lead into the cold darkness of Italian decline: decline of the family, of patriarchal society, of educational institutions, of religion. In a land where common, public, shared space is molded by a drab, amorphous egotism, even its revolutionary, socialist, communist ideals, mixed with a Manichaean Catholicism, have been transformed into fideistic and totalitarian dogmas. Right from the intro the animation presents this mix of phantom, austere and decaying places. Blending fiction and documentary, the film radically deconstructs the narrative forms. Bellocchio’s movies become lines of poetry that create new meaning; the same is true for the archives, whose use no longer serves the needs of narration, but those of poetry. Viaggio nel crepuscolo proposes a “quantum” montage: multiple stylistic features and cinematic genres as if they were parallel universes that reflect one another, determining the form, rhythm and content of the filmic space-time, in order to speak of the principal questions facing Italy and the world, and starting out from Bellocchio to venture into a universe that gives a voice back to workers and peasants, crystalising some momentous turning points.

I am convinced that our rational side is the least authentic one. I believe that our dreams have much more to tell than do appearances and our supposed identity. Viaggio nel crepuscolo looks back at the 1960s and 1970s using four of Marco Bellocchio’s films as its point of departure. I wield them as an instrument of investigation with which to dissect the mentality and society of Italy and some of the key episodes in its history. The artists, intellectuals and thinkers who make up its documentary core never appear in person but in an animated version made using the 2D technique developed by the Italian neo-pictorial movement, for the quest for beauty, for poetic and historical truth, is an adventurous undertaking, a mission suited to explorers who are not frightened by the unknown.

PRODUCTION 1: Giancarlo Grande, Augusto Contento – Cineparallax Sarl
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75009 – Paris, France
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giancarlo@cineparallax.com
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PRODUCTION 2: Ivan Olgiati, Chiara Galloni – Articolture S.r.l
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40122 – Bologna, Italia
Tel. +39 05118899687
Mob. +39 3447208915
ivan.olgiati@articolture.it
http://www.articolture.it

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