LA CANTA DELLE MARANE
O.V. in Italian subtitled in English and Spanish
A sensual and vibrant vision without euphemisms about the children of the Roman suburbs and their summer hobby, swimming in the ponds, with commentary by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
This short will be screened in short’s session #1 of Cecilia Mangini
Direction: Cecilia Mangini
Script: Cecilia Mangini, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Editing: Cecilia Mangini
Music: Egisto Macchi
Production Company: Universale Film
Cecilia Mangini
It takes courage to hold a camera as Cecilia Mangini has done so throughout her life. Firstly, because she began her career as a photographer, in a male-dominated industry, later becoming the first woman to direct documentaries in post-war Italy. And secondly, for the deep, ingenious, magnetic and combative vision she has of the world around her. A militant sharpness that she keeps to this day, at the age of 93, a mythical filmmaker who would refuse to be described as such. This sessions are structured in three segments to take us around her cinema (besides being a photographer and filmmaker, Mangini has also been a scriptwriter and writer) opening a door to a universe in which militant concerns (about the situation of women, about marginalised Italy, about the ways of life left behind by industrialisation) merge with a very original and powerful conception of cinema. Both of which enable her work to remain as energetic and future-oriented today as it did 60 years ago.