video: Sò ancora vivo, grassie a tutti (SOS#1)
It’s just a memory: it was the nineties, we were at the imbarcadero of Venice Lido. Then the vaporetto arrived in piazza Roma. Wherever you heard this song. I remember a spritz. Then the train left. Really happy hours.
Stàme bèn, Skardi. Grassie dea musica.
The 68th Venice International Film Festival – August 31 to September 10 2011.
link: www.labiennale.org
Venice, SALA DARSENA 5 Sept. 4:30 p.m.
GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI – VENICE DAYS
IO SONO LI by Andrea Segre (Italy, France, 96’, language: Italian, Chinese, s/t English/Italian) cast: Zhao Tao, Rade Sherbedgia, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston
txt: IO SONO LI – yolefilm on vimeo
Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome in order to get her papers and
enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman, nicknamed “the Poet” by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years. Their encounter is a poetic escape from solitude, a silent dialogue between cultures that are different, yet not more distant. It is an odyssey into the deep heart of a lagoon, which can be both the mother and cradle of identities, which never keep still.
But the friendship between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and local communities, who interfere with this new voyage, which they are perhaps simply too afraid
of.
if you are travelling through the world, you’ll pass from Venice..
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films…
