Private Project

Lost Images


This film is about a life left behind in a distant land, about a final departure, memory and loss, love and dead birds, visions and blindness.
A visual poem also inspired by a drawing by Egon Schiele.

  • Cesare Bedogne
    Director
  • Maria Frepoli
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    35 minutes 33 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 2, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece, Italy, Portugal
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 27th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
    Providence
    United States
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 8th Cinemistica International Film Festival
    Granada
    Spain
    November 17, 2022
    Spanish Premiere
    SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY
  • 4th Fotogenia, International Film Poetry and Divergent Narratives Festival
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    November 28, 2022
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 3rd London Rocks IFF
    London
    United Kingdom
    UK Premiere
    HONOURABLE MENTION OF THE JURY
  • 8th Shanghai Short Film Festival
    Shanghai
    China
    BEST EDITING - GOLDEN DRAGON AWARD
  • 76th FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO
    Salerno
    Italy
    November 30, 2022
    Italian Premiere
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 16th Prvi Kadar/First Frame International Film Festival
    Sarajevo
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Art Blocks
    Copenhagen
    Denmark
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL WORK
  • European Cinematography Awards
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    FINALIST
  • Berlin Awards
    Berlin
    Germany
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Rome Prisma Film Awards
    Rome
    Italy
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM/BEST EDITING (December 2022)
  • Amsterdam Freedom Independent IFF
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Art Experimental Screenings Film Festival Fresh Stream
    Tbilisi
    Georgia
    February 18, 2023
    Georgian Premiere
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 9th Festival de Largos y Cortos de Santiago
    Santiago del Chile
    Chile
    March 3, 2023
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
  • 1st Portugal Indie Film Festival
    Nazarè
    Portugal
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Ribalta Experimental Film Festival
    Vignola
    Italy
    March 19, 2023
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Experimental Brasil
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
  • Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards
    Calcutta
    India
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Butterfly International Film Festival
    Marseilles
    France
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival
    Manfredonia
    Italy
    March 31, 2023
    BEST EDITING/BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
  • Love & Hope International Film Festival
    Barcelona
    Spain
    OFFICIAL SELECION (upcoming 15-22 September 2023)
  • Dreamachine International Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    United States
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FEATURETTE
  • Berlin New Wave Film Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    Poi
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 7th Berlin Revolution IFF
    Berlin
    Germany
    October 22, 2023
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Lotus Film Festival
    Athens
    Greece
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 11th Chania Film Festival
    Chania
    Greece
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 4th Fotofilm Internatıonal Short Film Festival
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • New Wave International Film and Script Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Serbest International Film Festival
    Kinishev
    Moldova, Republic of
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Experimental Awards - London IFF
    Londono
    United Kingdom
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • French International Modern Film and Script Festival
    Paris
    France
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • PinusSessions se
    Sai Paulo
    Brazil
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 73th Montecatini International Film Festival
    Montecatini
    Italy
    October 19, 2023
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Synergy Film Awards
    Los Angeles
    United States
    October 13, 2023
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Tokyo International Short Film Festival
    Tokyo
    Japan
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Make Art Not Fear Film Festival
    Porto
    Portugal
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • 25th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival
    Madurai
    India
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • International Art Film Festival
    Birmingham
    United Kingdom
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Reel Harmony Film&Script Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • International Avant-Garde Film Awards
    New York
    United States
    BEST ART DIRECTION
  • Flickers Eindhoven
    Eindhoven
    Netherlands
    HONORABLE MENTION
  • Israel Brief Encounters Film Festival
    Tel Aviv
    Israel
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Amsterdam World Canvas Film Festival
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director Biography - Cesare Bedogne

Cesare Bedogné is an Italian photographer, film-maker and writer. His first, autobiographical novel and his black and white photographs were at he basis of the film "Story for an empty theatre", which he co-directed with the Russian film-maker Aleksandr Balagura. He later directed the experimental/documentary short films "Maria's Silence", "The Last Step of an Acrobat", "Photographing New York". All these experimental films won numerous awards internationally and were screened in prestigious film festivals such as Art Visuals&Poetry in Vienna, the International Film Festival of Salerno, L'Europe autour de l'Europe Film Festival in Paris, Montecatini International Short Film Festival in Italy, the Cinemistica Film Festival in Spain, AMIIWorkFest in Vilnius and many others. He recently completed (June 2022) another experimental short entitled "Lost Images", which also won many awards internationally. Further information is available on the artist's website:

www.cesarebedogne.com

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