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CHIARAVALLE VISUAL MEMORY

A diary of a visionary trip, a time's story. A research of the identity of a community.
The film was realized by heterogeneous audiovisual materials, such as digital and analog tapes, gathered by Luca Berardi among the hinabitants of Chiaravalle (Milan) during his artistic residency of 5 weeks. Chiaravalle's Abbay, the more visible memory of the country is compared to the invisible memories of the inhabitants hidden in their drawers. Video footages and photographs are readed again by means of words such “elsewhere” who caracterize the artistic research of the author, in a collective story, mirror of the present community.
A found footage film.

  • Luca Berardi
    Director
  • Luca Berardi
    Editing video
  • Imagonirmia
    Producer
  • Found footage from Community of Chiaravalle (Mi)
    Key Cast
  • Pastoral by Giovanni Ippolito; Transcendental Étude No.10 in F minor by Franz Liszt; Ma Mère l'Oye by Felipe Sarro, Maurice Ravel / Free Archive Music
    Music
  • Isabella Bordoni
    Curator
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    CHIARAVALLE VISUAL MEMORY
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    33 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 7, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    super 8, mini dv, dvd, photo
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Eurasia International Film Festival 2018
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    Winner Best Documentary Under 40 Min Monthly August
  • Rome Independent Prisma Awards Monthly Septembre 2018
    Roma
    Italy
Distribution Information
  • fucina monteleone
    Country: Italy
  • VIAINDUSTRIAE
    Country: Italy
    Rights: Video / Disc
Director Biography - Luca Berardi

Luca Berardi was born in Cesena (Italy) in 1973. He is a filmaker and video editor, who works with archival and found-footage materials, developing his documentary activities from an anthropological and social point of view. In his audio-visual artistic installations and in his film/art emerges his academic formation in experimental psychology of perception. Co-founder of the collective fucina monteleone, he’s one of the creators and organizers of Indocfest, a workshop festival on real-life cinema, and MalatestaShort Film Festival, an international shortfilm festival in Cesena (Italy).

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Director Statement

From the catalog published by VIAINDUSTRIAE "Quaderni di Imagonirmia - Chiaravalle Visual Memory":
"The reality which left no traces does not exit in the future"