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de Profundis

It is born in a place where the earth eliminates toxic gas, and if animals or people get too close to the ground they can die.
In that place, it seems that the depth of the earth’s center reaches the surface to say "ENOUGH !“ ; it is therefore our choice to approach death, or to run for cover.

We wanted to leave in image and sound the possibilities that our planet is giving us : Do we want to run for cover and love our soil, safeguarding it ? Or do we want to exhaust the resources until we are the last ones ?

As in Psalm 129, called De Profundis and widely used as the Miserere, probably created during the devastating campaign of Sennacherib (701 A.C.) in Palestine and the siege of Jerusalem ; the visual and sound composition wants to respect the penitential inspiration ; where anguish and tribulation, lead the prayer to invoke the Immeasurable with insistence, from the bottom of the heart. He invokes the mercy of the Immeasurable, which goes beyond man's sin, to save him. Without the mercy of the Immeasurable, man would be lost before divine justice.

  • Maria A. Listur
    Director
  • Gabriele Del Papa
    Director
  • Maria A. Listur
    Writer
  • Maria A. Listur
    Producer
  • Gabriele Del Papa
    Producer
  • Maria A. Listur
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    de Profundis
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    2,100 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Tokyo Film Awards
    Tokyo
    Japan
    January 5, 2023
    Honorable Mention
  • Cannes World Film Festival
    Cannes
    France
    February 9, 2023
    Best Super Short Film - Nominee
  • Cannes World Film Festival
    Cannes
    France
    February 9, 2023
    Best Female Director Super Short Film - Nominee
  • KOREA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
    Seoul
    Korea, Republic of
    March 3, 2023
    Award Winner
  • Academia for a Better World
    Cannes
    France
    May 22, 2023
    Speakers
  • Busan New Wave Short Film Festival
    Seoul
    Korea, Republic of
    July 3, 2023
    Finalist
  • INTERFACCIA DIGITALE
    Pesaro
    Italy
    October 12, 2023
    Shorts - Selected
  • Latin America Film Awards
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    January 10, 2024
    ALL CATEGORIES SHORT FILM - Selected
Director Biography - Maria A. Listur, Gabriele Del Papa

Maria A. Listur
Actress, Director, Multidisciplinary Performer, Cultural Operator
Born in Argentina in 1964.
In the early 70s, she began studying and working in dance, theater, painting, and writing.
In the 80s she attended the "Facultad de Artes" of the Univ. Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina ; was a period in which theater teachers were trained and supervised by Galina Tolmacheva, a pupil of Konstantin Stanislavsky and his favorite pupil Féodor Komisarjévsky. In the mid-80s she moved to Buenos Aires to study with Agustin Alezzo, an esteemed Argentine theater master in the post-dictatorship years. During the same period, she met the directorial/stylistic path of Robert Sturua and his perspective on B. Brecht- always of the Moscow School of Dramatic Art and the aesthetic/philosophical influence of Fernando de Toro- former translator of Patrice Pavis' Dictionary of Theatre and writer of Theatre Semiotics ; in the following years, he will accompany her in her research on the relationship between theatrical semiotics and the body of the actor.
In 1991 she moved to Europe to continue her work and study in the field of interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity as part and functions of the show, in Italy she met the Teatro Povero di Grotowski which allowed her to deepen and develop a postural proposal for the actor's body.
In the mid-90s, in Italy and Germany, she was a member of the Protei theater group, under the direction of Jurji Alschitz, one of the founders together with Anatoly Vasiliev of the Moscow School of Dramatic Art.
Between 2002-2012, in Rome, Italy she founded and coordinated the relazion@rte group, integrated by artists, philosophers, musicians, dancers, and writers, whose main intent was to produce and promote multicultural and interdisciplinary events under the ethical and aesthetic tutelage of Fernando de Toro of the University of Manitoba, Canada and Laura Silvestri of the University of Udine, Italy.
In 2015 she moved to Paris, France where she lives and works.
In 2017 she founded together with Laura Pazzaglia Ma-Là pro, an international group of multidisciplinary cultural production.

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Director Statement

I would like to recall in every gesture (daily and artistic) the immensity of what has generated us ; the abundance that arises in every element, and above all the immeasurable matter that continues to nourish us. At the same time, remember the fatigue of excessive demand, the weariness of giving.