STENDALì (SUONANO ANCORA)
O.V. in Italian subtitled in English and Spanish
An ecstatic film that borders on the hallucination that places us in the middle of the mourners' ritual at a funeral in Salento, Southern Italy. An endangered tradition in a film that includes a text by Pasolini.
This short will be screened in short’s session #1 of Cecilia Mangini
Direction: Cecilia Mangini
Script: Cecilia Mangini, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematography: Giuseppe de Mitri
Editing: Renato May
Music: Egisto Macchi
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.