Mauro Santini 2010 7 min Italy
An indefinite image appears: a journey begins, a drift in the dark, in an unknown sea, waiting for a landing at the end of the night.
‘I have always tried to use shaky shots, unusable leaders or time dilation of fragments to find testimony of a past that has been lived.
In Notturno, this search continues within the image, penetrating it,
running the pleasurable risk of getting lost inside it.’
(Fano, Italy, 1965) since 2000 has composed a series of video diaries, stories told in the first person about time, memory and the search for oneself. One of these, ‘Da lontano’, won the Italian competition at the 2002 Torino Film Festival. He has participated at the international film festivals of Locarno, Oberhausen, Je-onju, Annecy, DocLisboa, Cinémas différents in Paris, Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid,
Montpellier, Pesaro and Bellaria. In 2006, he made the feature film Flòr da Baixa and in 2008 he participated with different works at the festival La cité des yeux, une saison italienne, about Italian avant-garde cinema from 1968 to 2008, which was organized by the Cinémathèque française of Paris and curated by Nicole Brenez. His films are distributed by the Parisian association Collectif Jeune cinéma.