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Crossing a Painted Vesuvius

41 minutes | Family | 2006 | Italy

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Tagline

In a fantastic scenario a discovering of art

Synopsis

The film is an exploration of art. It attempt to uncover the meaning of art in dreams of young artists set to musical clips of contemporary Italian musicians, watching by their eyes illusion or passion. But proposing also theirs works in an original way, as musical clips. In a fantastic scenario seven interviews//art performances created on seven new songs composed for this video by seven of bests Neapolitan Bands.

Director's Statement

What happens to a city when it is abandoned to itself? Naples closes its eyes to everything and from this darkness what can ever bloom? In on of De Andre's songs he says, 'from the diamonds nothing is ever born...' This video is a voyage through art and music, in the small worlds of the young artists, in the spaces freed from the degradation with the work and the passion, with the creativity, with the search. An unpublished commission between contemporary art and music, an inversion in comparison to the one we have already seen. Seven musical clips and brief interviews whose protagonists are young painters, performers, photographers and seven songs from emerging Neapolitan bands, From the best and the worst of the urban outskirts, in reborn spaces and in long abandoned spaces also producing the director

Directed by: Luciano De Fraia
Written by: Luciano De Fraia
Produced by: Luciano De Fraia

Cast

Art Performer: Christian Leperino
Videomaker, Art Performer: Ivan Piano
Photographer: Barbara La Ragione
Art Performer: Michele Quercia
Art Performer: Eliana Vanvakinos
Museum Curator: Antonio Manfredi
: Sebastiano Deva
Painter: Valentina Mozzillo

Crew

Special Effects Supervisor: Luciano De Fraia
Editor: Michela Maiello
Camera Operator: Walter Montagna
  • Luciano De Fraia

    Director

    Luciano De Fraia