Rä Di Martino - Controfigura

A small film crew is wandering about Marrakesh and the surrounding desert. They are looking for locations for the remake of an American film in which a man swims his way home, passing through the houses and pools that he finds along the route. Corrado is the stand in used to test the shots, locations and the swimming pools in which the lead will be filmed. While we watch his attempts to get into the part, the real actors and a real crew burst onto the scene, on a set in which no one is in the right place. A film with a crisis of identity, in a surreal search for itself.

Traveling in Morocco and talking to the many Europeans who transferred there, I was struck by the number of hotels, swimming pools and immense golf courses that have been constructed in recent years, especially in Marrakesh. The city has to face an ever growing number of tourists of all kinds, and has to keep them all happy: from the wealthy Russians, Arabs or Europeans, who build themselves private paradises walled off from the rest of the city, to ex-hippies and people on package tours. New presences that have profoundly transformed the landscape, with hundreds of swimming pools scattered around the city. This is where I imagined my swimmer, a stand in suffering from a midlife crisis, and at the same time the crisis of his alter egos, of the real actors and of the system they represent.

PRODUCTION 1: Dugong Films
Piazza Nievo, 21
00153 Roma – Italy
Tel. +39 06 646 91 255
marcoalessi@gmail.com
http://facebook.com/dugong.produzioni/

PRODUCTION 2: Snaporaz Verein
14 Sur Puoz
7503 Samedan ( GR) – Switzerland
Tel. +39 3408518926
federicamaria.verein@gmail.com

PRODUCTION 3: In Between Art Film
Via dei 3 Orologi, 6A
00197 Roma - Italy
Tel. +39 06 80660380
inbetweenartfilm@gmail.com

PRODUCTION 4: Produzioni Illuminati
Viale De Gasperi 27
63074 San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) - Italy
Tel. +39 3470391955
produzionilluminati@icloud.com

PRODUCTION 5: Haut Les Mains
13 bis route de Vienne
69007 Lyon – France
Tel. +33 6 68175187
karim@hautlesmainsproductions.fr

OTHER COPRODUCTIONS: Karim Aitouna / Waq Waq Studio (Marocco)

WORLD SALES: Slingshot Films
Salita di Gretta 7/1
34136 Trieste - Italy
Tel. +39 347 6273390
manuela@slingshotfilms.it