Manuale di cinematografia per dilettanti - Vol. I

Against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the Fascist dictatorship, a man of wealth but unknown to history scrutinises the world with his little film camera. He is guided and instructed in the process by a handbook in which the germs of the ideology are concealed beneath the apparent objectivity of technique. But ineffable signs of resistance still surface in the images.

Starting out from the discovery of some volumes that belonged to him, the film analyses the production of Augusto Gandini, an amateur filmmaker active between 1927 and 1942, in the light of research into the handbooks produced for amateurs during the Fascist period. An essay on the education of the gaze, in precarious balance between the cultural models of an era and the irreducibility of the image.

PRODUCTION 1: Tommaso Perfetti – Enece Film
Via Luigi Pasteur, 1/A
20127 – Milano, Italia
Mob. +39 3332208091
info@enecefilm.com
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PRODUCTION 2: Andrea Zanoli – Lab 80 film
Via Carlo Serassi, 7
24125 – Bergamo, Italia
Tel. +39 035342239
Mob. +39 3495438394
andrea.zanoli@lab80.it
http://www.lab80.it/produzione

OTHER COPRODUCTIONS: Film made with the materials from Fondo Augusto Gandini di Archivio Cinescatti – Lab 80 film. Project developed within “Re-framing home movies / L’eredità ritrovata”, promoted by Archivio Cinescatti – Lab 80 film, Società Umanitaria – Cineteca Sarda and Archivio Superottimisti; curated by Karianne Fiorini and Gianmarco Torri; with the support of SIAE within the initiative "Sillumina – Copia privata per i giovani, per la cultura” (ed. 2017).
Supported by Vidéadoc.

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