Cesare Bedogné 2024 65 min Italy
An actress leaves for a journey together with a film-maker, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land and a deck of Tarots. The omens look gloomy but she attempts to defy them through the very film they are shooting, improvising day by day, and little by little the frames start playing the role of cards in a cinematic deck of Tarots. At the end the response will be a new one, perhaps even more sibylline, her own.
Cesare Bedogné is an Italian photographer, film-maker and writer. His first, autobiographical novel and his black and white photographs were at the basis of the film “Story for an empty theatre”, which he co-directed with the Russian film-maker Aleksandr Balagura. He later directed the experimental/documentary short films “Maria’s Silence”, “The Last Step of an Acrobat”, “Photographing New York” and “Lost Images”. All these films won numerous awards internationally and have been screened in prestigious film festivals such as Art Visuals&Poetry in Vienna, the International Film Festival of Salerno, L’Europe autour de l’Europe Film Festival in Paris, the Montecatini International Short Film Festival in Italy, the Cinemistica Film Festival in Spain, AMIIWorkFest in Vilnius and many others. He recently completed (May 2024) a documentary/ experimental feature entitled “Eight of Wands”.