TWO FORGOTTEN BOXES
O.V. in Italian and French subtitled in Spanish and English
Spanish premiere of this film which depicts a film never made by Cecilia Mangini: the one she was preparing to shoot in Vietnam with her partner Lino del Fra. They both traveled to that war-torn country in 1965. A trip of which only both of their journals and notes remain, and two forgotten boxes of photographs taken by Cecilia, who cast a close and horizontal gaze, absolutely unheard of, on the Vietnamese people. A thread that serves Mangini to recapitulate on her vital choices, on how the world has changed since then, and on the creative future of a fireproof and fierce woman.
Direction: Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli
Script: Cécilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli
Cinematography: Paolo Pisanelli
Editing: Matteo Gherardini
Music: Admir Shkurtas, Egisto Macchi
Sound: Simone Altana
Voices: Cécilia Mangini, Camille Gendreau , Stéphane Batut
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.