Private Project

STEAK

  • Federico Gatti
    Director
    I am not god but I am Michelangelo Antonioni, Un polpo
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    12,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Federico Gatti

Federico Gatti (1991) is an Italian director and producer. He started to work in industry in 2012 as assistant director. His credits included the short movie "A gunshot", "STEAK", and the upcoming projects "I am not God but I am Michelangelo Antonioni" (a documentary focused on the great Italian director Antonioni) and "Un polpo", starring the Hungarian actress Fruzsina Nagy.

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Director Statement

STEAK wants to discover a new cinematic language able to represent contemporary world’s structure. The cinema's formal changes occured in recent times led to a radical turn of medium experience and it causes the use of a new language expressed through cinematography’s nature itself.
STEAK takes its structure directly from silent movies and from a language which takes its way exclusively through images, their sequence and sound. The grotesque takes place inside a surrealistic bubble formally painted with an extreme realism (thanks to a minimalist and documentary photography and to an aseptic set design which alienates character’s habits and actions).
My director’s goal is to represent nowadays society’s habits through absurd, creating a cinema which is at the same time surrealistic and deeply connected to contemporary, a surrealism in which the dream is substituted with the alienating human condition painted in all its shapes.