Future Italian Frescoes (Altarpieces for another planet)

A large space in ruins is abandoned by who knows how many years. On the walls enormous canvases recall altarpieces whose classicism seems projected into the future. Was it an art gallery? The study of a painter? A museum? The place is imbued with the memory of someone who lived and worked in it.
An artist takes possession of space again and paints coexisting with the mystery that lives in those walls and the distressing presences that still live inside that space. The painter remains involved by the suggestions that are breathed by the abandoned altarpieces, true protagonists of the film.

  • Salvatore Garau
    Director
  • Salvatore Garau
    Writer
  • Salvatore Garau
    Producer
  • Alessandro Bonifazi
    Producer
  • Franco Sulis
    Producer
  • Paolo Sanna Caria
    Producer
  • Salvatore Garau
    Key Cast
  • Barbara Vitali
    Key Cast
  • Pietro Soddu
    Key Cast
  • Chiara Spanu
    Key Cast
  • Mario Piras
    Key Cast
  • Paolo Sanna Caria
    photography
  • Franco Sulis
    editing
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Futuri Affreschi Italiani (Pale d'altare per un altro pianeta)
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 15, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Blu.ray or DCP
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • The Psychedelic and Film and Music Festival
    New York
    United States
    November 21, 2020
    American Premiere
    Selected
  • BRASIL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    Rio De Janeiro
    Brazil
    July 16, 2021
    premiere Brasil
    Special Jury Award
  • 9° DADA SAHEB PHALKE FILM FESTIVAL
    Noida (Delhi NCR)
    India
    April 15, 2019
    Honorable jury mention
  • 8° BANGALORE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
    Bangalore
    India
    June 14, 2019
    Honorable Jury Mention
  • SPAIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    MADRID
    Spain
    November 30, 2021
    Premiere Spain
    Special Jury Award
  • SERBEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    Kishinev
    Moldova, Republic of
    September 29, 2022
    Moldova Premiere
    Semi-Finalist
  • WORLD CINE FEST
    PORTO
    August 15, 2022
    selected
  • EMERALD PEACOCK
    BERLIN
    Germany
    August 1, 2022
    Selected
  • VENUS COMMUNITY AWARDS
    ISTANBUL
    Turkey
    August 20, 2022
    PREMIERE
    Award Winner
  • AUSTRALIA FILM FESTIVAL
    SIDNEY
    Australia
    October 15, 2022
    premiere
    Award Winner
  • MEXICO FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS

    November 12, 2022
    premiere
    Award Winner
  • YOUR WAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    Paris
    France
    November 7, 2022
    selected
  • GLIFF GOLDEN LEMUR
    LISBONA
    Portugal
    October 10, 2022
    selected
  • LIBERTY FILM AWARDS

    November 5, 2022
    selected
Director Biography - Salvatore Garau

Salvatore Garau (1953) was born in Sardinia (Italy). In 2021 all over the world there was talk of his "invisible sculptures". In 1974 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Three years later he joined Stormy Six, a European avant-garde rock group.
In 2003 he was present at the Venice Art Biennale. From this moment he holds countless people in important private galleries and museums: Lugano, Basel, Barcelona, London, San Francisco, Washington. In 2011 he is still invited to the Venice Biennale.
His personal exhibitions have been hosted in the museums of Saint-Etienne, Córdoba (Argentina), Milan, Brasilia, San Paolo. In 2017 he directed a medium-length film shot in a High Security prison.

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Director Statement

Preparing the series of large paintings for an exhibition entitled "Futuri Affreschi Italiani" exhibition that it will be exhibited in various cities around the world, I have been fascinated by the great space
abandoned and decadent in which I had decided to paint. It 's really difficult to explain what was happening, while I was painting, in the silence and in the solitude of that place, something strange (very strange) actually happened. In this way the idea of the doc-thriller was born (I do not know how else to define it), that will be projected also in the museums that will host the paintings. protagonists of the film.
For this short I preferred a "dirty" photograph and tormented sequences, far from the classical film academy.