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Inspired by "Os Pobres" (The Poor), a bitter and raw novel by the Portuguese author Raul Brandão, peopled by outcasts grappling with unresolved existential problems, the project by Stefano Mazzotta explores the theme of exile, the moral condition of individuals who feel estranged from the world in which they live, suspended between hope and nostalgia. Marginal and awkward figures, united by the same melancholic and nostalgic feelings, build up a desire for redemption. As they wander across the fascinating landscape of southern Sardinia, known as Campidano, on its endless white beaches and dunes, among the characteristic old houses, the natural spaces echo their souls, while distance and suspension establish a strained succession of images. Emptiness, vertigo, horizon. Things lost or which never were.

The project "Elegy of lost things" is also a live show and a photo book.

Stefano Mazzotta

Director

project, direction and choreography
Stefano Mazzotta

Writer

dramaturgy
Anthony Mathieu

Writer

collaboration to the dramaturgy
Fabio Chiriatti

Writer

collaboration to the dramaturgy
Stefano Mazzotta

Producer
ZEROGRAMMI DANCETHEATRE

Producer
Massimo Gasole

co-direction and editing

co-direction and editing
Amina Amici

Key Cast
Alessio Rundeddu

Key Cast
Damien Camunez

Key Cast
Gabriel Beddoes

Key Cast
Miriam Cinieri

Key Cast
Lucrezia Maimone

Key Cast
Simone Zambelli

Key Cast
Antonio Piovanelli

Special guests
Loredana Parrella

Special guests
Bonaria Ghidoni

Special guests
Damiano Picciau

Director of photography
Emanuele Pusceddu

Foley soundesign, mix audio
Tommaso Contu

Lights
Maria Elisa Carzedda

Production assistant
INTERCONNESSIONI tersicorea

In association with
Illador films

In collaboration with
MIC_Ministero della Cultura

With the support of
Regione autonoma della Sardegna

With the support of
Regione Piemonte

With the support of
Fondazione di Sardegna

With the support of
Soprintendenza Archeologica, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Cagliari e le provincie di Oristano e Sud Sardegna

With the support of

Project Title (Original Language):

Elegìa delle cose perdute
Project Type:

Feature
Runtime:

47 minutes 51 seconds
Completion Date:

September 5, 2021
Production Budget:

150,000 EUR
Country of Origin:

Italy
Country of Filming:

Italy
Language:

Italian
Shooting Format:

Digital
Aspect Ratio:

16:9
Film Color:

Color
First-time Filmmaker:

Yes
Student Project:

No

Oriente Occidente Dance Festival

Rovereto
Italy
September 6, 2021
Regional avant-premiere
Official program
DANZA&DANZA

Roma
Italy
December 31, 2021
nn
BEST DANCE FILM D&D AWARD 2021
EXPERIMENTAL DANCE & MUSIC Film Festival

Toronto
Canada
April 6, 2022
Best Dance Film 2022
Riff Festival Norway

Eina
Norway
July 10, 2022
Norway Premiere
Best feature film
Portland Dance Film Festival

Portland
United States
October 7, 2022
Official selection
International meeting on video dance

Valencia
Spain
Spanish premiere
Official selection
Mignolo Screendance

New Jersey
United States
September 23, 2023
nn
Official Selection
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION & ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL,

Toronto
Canada
June 15, 2023
nn
Official selection

Distribution Information

ZEROGRAMMI

Distributor

Country: Worldwide

Rights: All Rights

Director Biography - Stefano Mazzotta

Stefano Mazzotta, choreographer and stage director. After a training in dance and theater at the Actor's School of CTK (Lecce, It), he continued his studies at the School of Dramatic Art “Paolo Grassi” in Milan where he graduated in 2000. He studied with masters such as Jean Cebron, Marco Baliani, Beatrice Libonati, Raffaella Giordano, Michele Abbondanza, Davide Montagna, Bruce Michelson. He has worked with directors and choreographers including Ismael Ivo, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Luca Veggetti, Monica Casadei and Avi Kaiser. Since 2005 he is choreographer and artistic director of the italian dancetheatre company Zerogrammi. His creative activity is characterised by a choreographic research that advances through experimentation of languages, contexts, and views often transversal to dance and theater. The organic journey of discovery, leading to creation, comes to compositional work through social and educational projects, residences built around specific anthropological and geographical interests, actions related to the experience of languages such as photography, video, plastic arts, literature, to give to the creative work new signs, new meanings and an experience-based baggage representing the essential tool with which he comes back to the construction of its artistic work, renewing its sense and urgency. From 2006, over 30 co-productions, derived by national and international collaborations, have been created and represented in Italy and abroad (France, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, Holland, Portugal, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Singapore) and awarded several prizes including Hystrio Prize 2013, Golden Mask 2012, Prize Vignale Danza2012, Giocateatro Prize 2009, Festival Oriente Occidente Prize 2008. Since 2012, he is also artistic director of Casa LUFT, a production center dedicated to artistic creation and professional training, where the dialogue between different and complementary poetics, providing support to creative processes, produces wealth generated by sharing and multiplies useful tools for developing the artistic idea, expanding connections and collaborating opportunities in national and international contexts.

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Director Statement

We dance the everyday: the minimal, invisible, imperfect details revealing the deepest aspects of our human being. We dance the vulnerability: a wince, a contradiction, an hesitation, a wait. In a time that is a nostalgic now, leaning towards the future, moving from the individual with the obligation to speak in the name of everyone. In a place that is here, crossing and carrying the whole body to embrace the world. In a form that is an offered gesture, poor and peripheral, able to rename things.