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Saturday, March 31, 2018 - 18:30
Written by:
Giovanni Giaretta
Cinematography:
Giovanni Giaretta
Editing:
Giovanni Giaretta
Sound:
Emanuele Cicconi
Music:
Claudio F. Baroni
Producer:
Giovanni Giaretta
Production:
Studio Giovanni Giaretta, Amsterdam Art Funds
Romanian Premiere
A sailor dreams of a homeland he's never had and keeps shaping it day after day in his imagination. Inspired by Fernado Pessoa’s drama The Mariner, The Sailor reflects on the creation of its own story and the need to use an invented language to express it. In Giovanni Giaretta’s film, image, voice-over and subtitles deliberately fail to syncronize. The links between them are kept wonderfully ambiguous. Landscape stills are slightly abstracted by colour filters; a female voice speaks in Na'vi (the language invented for the film Avatar), and the subtitles muse on the relation between images, words and phantasy. Same as its main character who can no longer distinguish reality from yearning, The Sailor creates an intermedial realm, unwilling to obliterate the abundance of aesthetic and narrative possibilities by putting an end to the story. (Ioana Florescu, BIEFF 2018)
Director:
Festivals, awards:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
- Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2017
- Edinburgh International film Festival 2017
Filmmaker’s statement:
I feel that this in-depth research is in fact all about my constant obsessions, which by its means I then cut, interlink and finally assemble. The work-part starts when I try to get out of the phase of strong infatuation towards the subject, It’s a kind of healing process, a transformation of my obsession into work. (Giovanni Giaretta)
Curatorial comment:
The margins and horizons of a landscape that perhaps never existed. A story told using the invented language of the Na’vi (created for the film Avatar), in which rhythm and tone create the narration. A semantic vision of the absence of what is present – birthplace, home, solid ground – questions the imagination about the unclear boundary between what is dream, what is possible and what is real. (Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival)
I feel that this in-depth research is in fact all about my constant obsessions, which by its means I then cut, interlink and finally assemble. The work-part starts when I try to get out of the phase of strong infatuation towards the subject, It’s a kind of healing process, a transformation of my obsession into work. (Giovanni Giaretta)
Curatorial comment:
The margins and horizons of a landscape that perhaps never existed. A story told using the invented language of the Na’vi (created for the film Avatar), in which rhythm and tone create the narration. A semantic vision of the absence of what is present – birthplace, home, solid ground – questions the imagination about the unclear boundary between what is dream, what is possible and what is real. (Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival)