Private Project

Città_Downtown

The town. A radio broadcast gives listeners voice. Inside a house, one of its many inhabitants wakes up and carries out the repetitive gestures of everyday life, while listening the radio broadcast. Outside his house the noises besiege him while a mechanic presence flies above the town. Through the alternating voices and the repetitiveness of the protagonist's gestures, a paradoxical, ironic tale about alienation, urban transformations, the anthropization of nature overwhelmed by the machinic.

  • Simone Cangelosi
    Director
  • Simone Cangelosi
    Writer
  • Fulvia Antonelli
    Writer
  • Simone Cangelosi
    Editor
  • Simone Cangelosi
    Producer
  • Marie Magdalene Limongen
    Key Cast
  • Fulvia Antonelli
    Key Collaborators
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Città
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Comic, Surreal, Experimental, Ecologist, Environmental
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 1, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    70 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Language:
    German, Italian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Simone Cangelosi

Simone Cangelosi (Pisa, 1968), after studying cinema at the University of Bologna he worked as a film restorer till 2010. Starting from 2016 he contributes to Ethnographic Film School directed by anthropologist Fabio Gemo in Monselice, and founded Out-Takes a LGBTQI Audiovisual Archive in Bologna. He shot some documentaries: the autobiographical 'From head to toe' (2007), 'Felliniana' (2010), 'A Noble Revolution' (2014), on the life of the prominent italian trans activist Marcella Di Folco (32° Torino Film Festival, Sicilia Queer Film Festival), 'Maqeda' (2018). 'Città' is his first fiction work.

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Director Statement

Started during lockdown period 2020 and without money and production, I searched a way to produce my first fiction short without a classical troupe. So first I used material of the town found on line, mixing it with voices I recorded. I put together slowly the story, working on it likewise a music composition.