Movies: Mauro Santini

For Filmmaker Film Festival (2023), Fulvio Baglivi and Cristina Piccino asked some filmmakers (R. Beckermann, J. Bressane, D’Anolfi/Parenti, T. De Bernardi, L. Di Costanzo, A. Fasulo, F. Ferraro, M. Frammartino, S. George, ghezzi/Gagliardo, C. Hinter...

Corso Salani's voice for "Dove sono stato", a film about the disappearance of a friend, is now embodied in the places where he should have starred in a film. Empty fields, which will forever miss the body of the missing friend, to document the absen...

The voices, faces and bodies of the students of the Liceo Artistico Mengaroni in Pesaro embody the characters of two novels by Cesare Pavese, La bella estate and Il diavolo in collina. Seventy years later, the "beautiful summers" of Ginia and Guido, ...

Flòr da Baixa is the story of a journey that starts from Lisbon, touches Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Taranto, and returns to the Portuguese city. It is a film about absence, about something that is missing, always and everywhere: in one's own room as...

The fourth walk follows the course of a river; then it goes up towards a village, still and solitary, until a breath of wind....

Carmaux and Wan Stiller, Mimmo and Sussò fishermen from the Old City, are looking for the Lady of Ventimiglia, here Carmela. An elderly and visionary Morgan sent them among childhood memories, fears of new imprisonments and adverse destinies, chatter...

"Giorno di Scuola" is the story of a day for pupils at the Pieve Torina primary school: the morning school bus that collects the children on the hills, the hours of lessons with syllables and questions, recess with its meetings; but also the contrast...

Vaghe stelle is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possible...

“Vaghe stelle” is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possib...

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“Did you have any relatives living there?” asks the lady: in a certain way… The fifth walk descends a park, where once was a street and a hairdresser’s shop, at number 24....

Soft steps mark the snow. They follow a blackbird, then find the sea. The third walk gets lost in an echo of childhood games....

Born during the lockdown, the film narrates an exodus, through an exiled language like Armenian, and is composed of a single 38-second shot, repeated. The evolution of image and sound become the narration of a border crossing, of a border that the tr...

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Vaghe stelle is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films…...

Vaghe stelle is a seven-chaptered film, each chapter named after a star of the Plough. This is the third chapter, although the project is conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in th...

"The one hundred tables of "Il Fatto" are part of a project for animated cinema conceived and designed by Tullio Ghiandoni in 1970. The film was born from Tullio's desire to see his drawings 'animated', the reason for this gift he gave me in 2002 and...

Three-day diary with Giacomo on the Sibillini mountains, in August 2004...

"It all started with a flea market and "Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire". A night storm and the cat Vadinho did the rest, leading me on the first walk."...