Nicola Lanza

Antonio Lanza

Leonardo Larocca

Claudia Candusso

Mila Costi

Carlos José Crespo

Jacopo Elia

Federico Gregoretti

Giovanbattista Sauro

Angelo Spadaro

Enrico Troisi

Denise Trombin

Luca Vinai

Leonardo Zaccaro

Paolo Cossi

Pietro Armentano

Giuseppe Campolongo

Pietro Pittelli

Angelo Antonio Santagada

Domenico Bruno

Antonio Capristo

Giuseppe Antonini

Angelo Iemmolo

Nino Larocca

Gianluca Selleri

Mirko Mangini

Maria Rosaria Marchetti

Giovanni Gurrieri

Francesco Fisichella

Antonio Occhipinti

Alessia Casaluci

Roberto de Marco

Francesco Ferraro

Ilaria de Marco

Giuseppe Carbone

Giuseppe Pizzati

Pietro Criaco

Antonio Sgambelluri

Santoro Crea

Domenico Romeo

Cosimo Pulitanó

Salvatore Restieri

Enzo Pittelli

Giovanni Mortati

Nicola Vito

Giuseppe Francomano

Philippe Bober

Benni Atria

Michelangelo Frammartino

Clemens Köstlin

Marina Perales Marhuenda

Olivier Père

Raha Shirazi

Giovanna Giuliani

Giliano Carli

Stefania Grilli

Chiara Cerretini

Armando Francesco Serrano

Giovanni Maria Melis

Vincenzo Russo

Angelo Urbano

Paolo Benvenuti

Florian Holzner

Laura Hübler

Simone Paolo Olivero

Marco Saitta

Fabian Weigmann

Elio Gentile

Davide Lonigro

Luca Massa

Viola Pagli

Federica Groia

Benjamin Mirguet

Alessandro Pelliccia

Anna Terrassan

Francesca Lepore

Silvana Tamma

Matteo Gaetani

Gilberto Arpioni

Giacomo Gagliardo

Ansgar Frerich

Edoardo Tozzi

Piera Boccacciaro

Maria Gerolama Sale

Mirko Donati

Michel-Clement Franco

Gianluca Battelli

Natalino Russo

Francesco Morina

Federica Scipioni

Salvatore Aresu

Emanuela Oppido

Flavia Figà Talamanca

Stefania Bettini

Claudia Avventi

Michele Lorenzo Cisola

Matteo Monteduro

Francesco Coscarella

Antonio Francomano

Antonio Fariello

Giacomo Santini

Sergio Pozza

Guido Rigoni

Luciano Della Bona

Stefano Rigoni

Giorgio Vellar

Manuel Russo

Claudio Vinci

Dario De Cotiis

Carlo De Silvestri

Francesco Salerno

Piergisberto Salerno

Luciano Antonini

Emanuela Tomassetti

Olga Chvileva

Daphne Gastaldo

Vincenzo Caricari

Noémie T.J. Phillipson

Sebastian Alten

Simon Olliges

Jonathan Ritzel

Sebastian Tesch

Christian Lerch

Marco Stefani

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Il buco

Doppio Nodo Double Bind

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Il Buco

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With virtually no dialogue at all, this is the ultimate observational documentary - with two strands. The first centres around the recreation of a speleological expedition (from 1961) to explore a cave that stretches deep under the Calabrian plateau. The second features an elderly, weather-beaten, shepherd (Antonio Lanza), whose only means of communication appears to be using sounds similar to those emanating from his herd of cattle. It's not immediately obvious at the start, but gradually - and subliminally - the two stories intertwine with a gentle intensity. The cave has something visceral about it. It's entrance has a kind of primordiality that one could easily imagine being the site of some ancient pagan, mother Earth, rituals. What is also notable from the outset is the technologically basic nature of their work. They attempt to measure the depth of the cave by using burning embers to light their way. Their mapping is all hand (and ink) drawn. Not an iPad or laptop in sight whilst they sleep three in a tent regularly visited by the obliviously grazing residents. Meanwhile the elder gent watches on, seemingly imperviously, until he takes a bit of a turn and is sought by his colleagues before being attended by a doctor who clearly deduces, again without any language, that he is soon to move onto a different plateau. The audio is interesting. The lack of speech allows us to hear the noises of the water, the wind, the animals and that is quite effective. The photography is also pretty stunning, especially down the hole where the rock formations offer all sorts of shadows and textures for what little light the surveyor's helmet-lamps can provide. It is creepy and claustrophobic - I felt that this was just not a place where man belonged. There is a simplicity to this whole production that, though perhaps a little slow at times, offers a glimpse of both nature (natural and human) that has evolved little over many years, and I found it curiously compelling to watch.

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