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Titianus, story of an unfinished movie

Interviews, archive materials and stolen off-air compose the story about Matteo, the director of a local TV, who inexplicably abandons his debut film about the painter Tiziano Vecellio, a few weeks before the first ciak.
Through the camera of “M”, the making off operator, we will discover how Matteo has been inspired to change his life thanks to the studio for the screenplay.
Each member of the crew will give his own point of view about the affair, but only the author of the final documentary will achieve the truth.

  • Tommaso Brugin
    Director
    San Tomaso Agordino, yesterday, today, tomorrow, (2017)
  • Tommaso Brugin
    Writer
  • Raffaele Pizzatti Sertorelli
    Writer
  • Tommaso Violi
    Writer
  • Claudio Marabini
    Writer
  • Tommaso Brugin
    Producer
  • Federico Massa
    Producer
    Beyond the borders, Ettore Castiglioni's story (2017)
  • Giampietro Cutrino "Gip"
    Key Cast
    "Himself, Titian"
    Mad Tv, Le iene (programmi TV)
  • Matteo Cremon
    Key Cast
    "Matteo Tremon"
    Il peggio di me di G. Pellegrini (2016), Soldato Semplice di P. Cevoli (2015), Faccia d'angelo (fiction TV) di A. Porporati
  • Margherita Mannino
    Key Cast
    "Diletta"
    Gli anni amari di A. Adriatico (2018), Lovers di M. Vicino (2018), Le leggi del desiderio di S. Muccino (2014)
  • Valerio Mazzucato
    Key Cast
    "Carlo Quintino"
    La pelle dell'orso di A. Segato (2016), Il segreto d'Italia di A. Bellucco (2014), Piccola Patria di A. Rossetto (2014)
  • Francesco Wolf
    Key Cast
    "Francesco Vasani, Aretino"
    Di padre in figlia di R. Milani (2017), Venezia Impossibile di W. Carrer (2014)
  • prof. Augusto Gentili
    Experts
  • prof. Bernard Aikema
    Experts
  • prof. Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo
    Experts
  • Claudia Davalli
    Executive producer
  • Lorenzo Pezzano
    Director of photography
    Sulle mie spalle di A. Belluco (2018), Beyond the borders di A. Azzetti e F. Massa (2017), Una Nobile Causa di E. Briguglio (2015),
  • Davide Vizzini
    Editing
    Croce e delizia di S. Godano (2019), Moglie e marito di S. Godano, Piuma di R. Johnson (2016), La ragazza del mondo di M. Danieli (2016) , Revelstock di S. Moruzzi (2015), Amori elementari di S. Basso (2014),
  • Marco Zambrano
    Sound Design
  • Paolo Fornasier
    Original soundtrack
    San Tomaso Agordino, yesterday, today, tomorrow, (2017)
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Titianus, la storia di un film non-finito
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Other
  • Genres:
    Mockumentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 8, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    50,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    2k
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Tommaso Brugin

Tommaso Brugin was born in Venice in 1985. After his cinema studies between Padua and Paris, in 2007 he graduated with a thesis about Tim Burton and the power of imagination.
He immediately started to work as filmmaker for artistic and commercial projects, as video installations, short films, commercials and documentaries, keeping updated his practical education with several courses and workshops all over the country.
Fascinated by the thin distance between fantasy and reality, he’s trying to translate this passion in his creative works and in the audio-visual language, writing and filming stories connected with his hometown.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2017 - DIRECTOR - San Tomaso, un paese tra ieri, oggi e domani - documentary
2017 - SCREENPLAY and EDITING - Messaggeri di Luce sullo Schermo - video-installation for Musei Civici Veneziani and Venice Municipality.
2016 - SCREENPLAY and EDITING - L’ascesa di Giuditta sullo schermo - video-installation for Musei Civici Veneziani and Venice Municipality.
2015 - EDITING - “Homo Edens, Ridens et Bibens” video-installation for Expo Milano 2015
2014/15 - FILMMAKER - “Fiat Lux” - doc. of 52’ for Economic Development Department 2013 - SHOOTING - “La Montagna Infranta” doc. of 52’ in cooperation with Padua University
2013 - EDITING - “Cammini della speranza” video-installation for the exposition “La Rinascita, storia dell’Italia che ce l’ha fatta” for Palazzo Mazzetti Foundation
2012 - FILMMAKER - “Ci riguarda” doc. of 52’ for Economic Development Department and “Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia” in Rome
2011 - EDITING - “Buongiorno Italia” - video-installation for EXPO SHANGHAI
2010/11 - DIRECTOR - “Zorzi da Castelfranco” docu-fiction of 52’
2010 - SCREENPLAY and EDITING “Buon Appetito” video-installation for Unicredit Group
2008 - SCREENPLAY and EDITING - “Res Aeronautica” video-installation for Aeronautical Museum “Gianni Caproni” in Trento
2006 - DIRECTOR - “Al Tramonto” short film of 10’, best short-film at Mestre Film Fest 2006, section Raccontare Mestre
2005 - DIRECTOR - “L’ultima foglia” short film of 10’

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Director Statement

Tiziano Vecellio was the most famous painter of the Serenissima Republic, esteemed in all the European courts of the time and studied as a precursor by many artists of the twentieth century.
The idea of the film was born from the desire to understand and tell the reason why and the need to do it with a new language, able to convey informations and reflections about the artist without bothering, making the viewer absorb them in an almost unconscious way through a story.
I chose the shape of the mockumentary drawing on my research about the thin line between reality and fiction typical of the grotesque and I thought to tell the preparations for a costume movie staging a fake backstage and imagining a style a little 'dirty' and some improvisation scenes to increase the feeling of realism.
This choice allows me to intrigue the viewer, but above all to satisfy him visually by offering him a scattered "puzzle" of the movie constituted by on-site researches, interviews to the actors, workshops of costumes and evocative locations.
Finally, it allows me to tell a story, that of Matteo, thanks to which I can give a personal interpretation to the life and career of Titian.
The film does not aim to tell the story of the Venetian painter in a comprehensive and notionalistic way, but aims to encourage the public to deepen their knowledge of books and art galleries, showing how even the study of antiquity can reserve surprises and help to know themselves.