Short films 2009
The Fifth Season
Giuseppe Ferreri, Valentina Arena
Genre: Fiction
Country of production: Italy
Production year: 2008
Original language: Italian
Duration: 3’
Director: Giuseppe Ferreri, Valentina Arena
Production: Giuseppe Ferreri, Valentina Arena
Distribution: Giuseppe Ferreri, Valentina Arena
Screenplay: Giuseppe Ferreri, Valentina Arena
Photograph: Giuseppe Ferreri
Music: Sergio Caputo, David Giancaterini
Editing: Giuseppe Ferreri, Valentina Arena
Cameraman: Giuseppe Ferreri
Scenography: Giuseppe Ferreri, Valentina Arena
Make up: Valentina Arena
Cast: Paola Giancaterini
Brief synopsis:
A soft shower of white feathers, candid, covers the ground like soft snow. A girl looks around radiant, on her face a child joy. Gently the feathers touch her skin and give her warm. And then waking up in blue sheets. The girl's face surprised and delighted by what seems to be a bizarre dream. But already in her first steps that she moves in reality, we realize that everything has the consistency of impalpable dream, which the everyday life is full of unusual beauty. In the warm light of morning the girl walks on a soft carpet of autumn leaves, toward the scarlet stream of silk that wraps around the branches of a majestic tree, inviting treasure trove of beauty to wear and bring. The bright fabrics reveals another cozy corner of reality where the aroma of hot coffee fills the air and mingles with the sea breeze. The light sand tickles the steps of the girl who takes refuge in the stability of her green chair to look the immensity calm of the sea, to hear secrets whispered by the waves and the sun playing with her hair curly. But it's time to go, a cool stone bridge takes us out of the house of sand and leaves, from the cozy magical reality. But a piece of that magic, that soft beauty still embraces and protects the girl from the greyness of the outside world.
Biofilmography author
Giuseppe Ferreri
Born in Bari March 5, 1982.
He graduated from Scuola di Regia Cinematografica directed by Marco Bellocchio where as essay for end year he produced a film, currently in post-production in Rome. After he attended courses about shooting and editing at centri di formazione cinematografica in Milan, where for several years he attended the environment of independent cinema, working on several sets of short films. Works as a cameraman and editor with several broadcasters including Mediaset and RAI.
Currently works as a freelance director for documentaries, advertisements and short films.
Filmography:
- Documentary "La nave" Voices from drug addict department of San Vittore prison
- Short Film " Melodia Monocromatica", winner in the experimental section at Ilcorto.it Festival Festa Internazionale di Roma 2008, winner at PoetryVisualized Festival 2009
- Short film "The Fifth Season", II prize at the Festival Alcantara Movie Contest 2008, selected at Cinemadamare Film Festival 2008
- Short Film "Petali Neri", finalist at Cinecitta internet film festival 2004
Valentina Arena
Born in Pavullo, Frignano (Modena) on 16 October 1984.
In 2007 she graduated in DAMS cinema all’Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, she graduated at Scuola di Regia Cinematografica directed by Marco Bellocchio, during which she worked with many professionals (Doriana Leondeff, Carlo Crivelli, Francesca Calvelli). In the same year she participated at Cantiere di video-arte presided by the artist Tessa M.den Uyl.
Currently she works as a freelance video maker in the province of Modena and conducts workshops for schools.
Filmography:
- Documentary " Il Cuore del Frignano" on the reality of volunteering and international cooperation in the province of Modena. Screened in various schools of Frignano.
- Short film "The Fifth Season", II prize at the Festival Alcantara Movie Contest 2008, selected at Cinemadamare Film Festival 2008
- Documentary " La Vita in Valigia" interviews on the topic of Abundance and sobriety. Projected in 2007 at a conference organized by the " Rocca di Pace", later shown at Arosio (CO), Rome, Udine, and the event "Metissage" 2008 of Campogalliano (MO).
