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Pilastro Nero

Two Italian mountaineers set out to climb Cholatse, a 6,440m Himalayan peak, with no easy ascent routes. Matteo Stella from Courmayeur and Riccardo Bergamini from Lucca accompany us on a journey to the Cholatse base camp. Due to the dry season and the strong wind of the past few days, the two climbers are faced with dangerous climbing conditions. A serac has clear snow releases and the crevasses are covered with windy snow. The risk is too high. They therefore decide to climb another peak: a rocky pyramid that stands next to the summit. Unclimbed mountain, about 6000 meters high. With little rock climbing equipment they reach the new summit which they will then name after two women: Santa Barbara and Santa Chiara. The film is about mountaineering, people, places and ways of experiencing the mountains that are different from each other; it teaches us to face apparent defeats by transforming them into new victories.

  • Elettra Gallone
    Director
  • Matteo Stella
    Camera Operator
  • Emerald Mountain Films
    Producer
  • Matteo Stella
    Key Cast
  • Riccardo Bergamini
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    Mountain, Documentary, short
  • Runtime:
    35 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 13, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy, Nepal
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Elettra Gallone

Elettra Gallone is an Italian film director from Milan, Italy. In 2016 she graduated in Media Design and Multimedia Arts at NABA in Milan and then deepened her knowledge in documentaries taking a Master in Social Anthropology at SOAS in London. She transposed her interest in people, society and cultures in documentary filmmaking. She worked as official photographer and filmmaker for Emergenza Sorrisi during the surgical missions in Benin in 2015 and in Iraq in 2017. During the first mission she filmed the short film “Il tempo di uno Sguardo”. She attended two documentary short courses at NFTS in London in 2016 and 2019. In Octorber 2021 she participated at the 2nd Film Accelarator with Werner Herzog in Lanzarote realizing two short films, “La Ira de Guayota" and “Poseidón".

Filmography:
Ricordi Presenti / Elettra Gallone / 2015 / 10 min. / Documentary
Il tempo di uno Sguardo / Elettra Gallone / 2016 / 15 min. / Experimental, Documentary
La ira de Guayota / Elettra Gallone / 2021 / 9 min. / Fiction
Poseidón / Elettra Gallone / 2021/ 8 min. / Documentary
Incontrando Samir la Sera / Elettra Gallone / 2021 / 60 min. / Documentary
Pilastro Nero / Elettra Gallone / 2022 / 34 min / Documentary

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