Upwelling
Directed by
- Pietro Pasquetti, Silvia Jop
Italy
2016
77 min
- Italian
Among the fragments of a city rebuilt on the ruins of a disaster, in the echo of a catastrophe that has never entirely subsided, upwelling, is a wave that comes from the bottom of the sea and brings the deep waters to the surface. A whole party of characters keeps appearing throughout the film, moving like satellites around a living and unexpected universe: they represent the attempts to resist against and revitalize the historical traditions of a deteriorated and static city.
We are in Messina, a city that has been totally rebuilt after one of the most devastating natural disasters in the twentieth century. This is where we have been living for two years, trying to establish a deep intimacy with the people who would later become the characters in this film. In UPWELLING, there is constant search for a connection between the concept of catastrophe and the notion of ascending.
Awards
- Most Innovative Feature Film - Visions du Réel
- Young Jury Award - Filmmaker Festival Milan
Festivals
Credits
- Cast
- Danilo Adamovic
- Giulia Giordano
- Max Bruno
- Pietro Saitta
- Renato Accorinti
- Screenplay
- Pietro Pasquetti
- Silvia Jop
- Cinematography
- Pietro Pasquetti
- Editing
- Gianandrea Caruso
- Music
- Sacri Cuori
- Production
- AKI FILM
Press
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A tour de force that gives life to a new genre, strong in terms of aesthetics and content, the bringer of a message that is superficial much more than it is political.
Silvia Jop
Italy
She received her degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Siena with a thesis on European Ethnology on the Right to Asylum in Italy. She is the Editorial Coordinator of the blog, lavoroculturale.org. Currently she is Social Media Manager at the Fondazione lettera27 and is involved in the development of the project Cosa Pensano Le Ragazze, produced by Dora Maar in collaboration with Repubblica.it. Her co-directed project UPWELLING (2016) screened at Visions du Réel.
Pietro Pasquetti
Italy
He received his degree in Documentary Film Direction from the Accademia del cinema e della televisione di Roma a Cinecittà (The Rome Academy of Film and Television at Cinecittà). He took the Masters class in Filmmaker, The Documentary as a View, in Venice. He directed his first documentary ROMA RESIDENCE that was in competition at the Torino Film Festival in 2007 and numerous other film festivals. His second documentary, IL VANGELO SECONDO MARIA is about an aristocratic Rom family that becomes sedentary and Evangelist. It was presented at the Torino Film Festival in 2009 and received the status of art film by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. His third documentary, UPWELLING, screened at the 2017 Visions du Réel.