Demetrio Giacomelli
Directing
Biography
He first worked as an assistant director for the filmmaker Paolo Caredda on the documentaries Gli italiani e il fumetto and Fino all’estremo, produced by Sky Arte. He has participated at two editions of the Pesaro Film Festival, presenting the film Mal d’archivio in 2016 and, in 2017, Il secondino innamorato. In 2017, he made the documentary Diorama, produced by Controra Film, presented at the Torino Film Festival, where it received the award for Best Italian Documentary. In 2017, he made the sci-fi movie L’estinzione rende liberi, which won first prize in the section Prospettive at the Filmmaker Festival in Milan. In 2018, he made the movie Un’estate a Milano, which won the Jury Prize in the section Prospettive at the Filmmaker Festival in Milan. In 2018, he made the short Drive-in, presented at the Torino Film Festival just like the following L’uomo raccoglitore (2019).
Known For
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The Kennel
During the late 1960s, Emilio Sidoti, an elementary school teacher in Albisola, decided to make some movies with his students in order to develop their critical gaze in a free and radical expressive pathway. This was the start of “Cinema dei ragazzi,” Italy's first experience of “school and cinema;” it generated over twenty movies, all shot in Super8, and most of them were entirely written, directed, and edited by the children. Starting with the material of the time, this unique experience is put into relation with the present time, as the children of back then - who today are adults - are asked to recount the impression it left on them.
Lotta di Classe - Il cinema dei ragazzi di Emilio Sidoti
In a declining West, the director creates his alter ego, Totò Cannibale, to confront fears and impulses, amidst technology and extreme individualism.
Totò Cannibale
The toad, the stork and the swallow. The encounter between man and wild animal in the city. By observing the activity which brings the protagonists of the three stories closer to the animal world, an intimate dimension reveals itself, something which isn’t immediately visible but which has always been present in mankind; something which can only return to its true essence through an otherness.