Das meer
Duration: 11' 35''
Genre: Documentary, Biographical
Year: 2023
Language: ITA
4:3 - COLOR - STEREO
Genre: Documentary, Biographical
Year: 2023
Language: ITA
4:3 - COLOR - STEREO
Synopsis
Fragments of the image of Switzerland in the 1970s and Italy in the 2000s alternate under the passage of moments of real life, of collective memory, reconstructing a family imaginary dissipated by time. Ties evolve, the event of death manifests itself silently, life flows under the eyes of a girl who still feels too small to understand who she wants to be.
Credits
- Produced by MARTINA MELE for DestinationFilm - APS
- Written and Directed by MARTINA MELE
- Voice by STELLA MUSY
- Soundtrack by DANILO LICO
- Sound mixing by MARCO MALAVASI
- Edited by MARTINA MELE
- Color correction by ALESSANDRO ROCCA
- 8mm and Super 8 filming by EGIDIO ORTOLANI
- VHS-C filming by SEBASTIANO MELE and MARIA CRISTINA ORTOLANI
- Film archive by ORTOLANI-BANNERT FAMILY
- VHS archive by MELE-ORTOLANI FAMILY
- Distributed by PATHOS DISTRIBUTION
Martina Mele
Martina Mele was born in Ferrara on July 7, 1997.
In 2016 she graduated from the Dosso Dossi Art School in Ferrara.
In 2019 she graduated in Disciplines of Figurative Arts, Music, Entertainment and Fashion at the University of Bologna with a thesis on North American Cinema entitled "The cinematic painting of David Lynch: Eraserhead and the First Short Films".
In 2019 she co-founded DestinationFilm – APS, an association that deals with the promotion of cinema and theatre.
She wrote and directed several short films, including “Das Meer” (2023) distributed by Pathos Distribution and “So(g)no” (2022) distributed by Siberia Distribution.
She directed the music video “To Exist – Nude Version”(2022) for the artist and photographer SIERMOND, and she worked as producer, co-writer and assistant director in the short film “Agosto in Pelliccia”(2022) distributed by Gargantua Distribution, winner of the Best Direction Award at Visioni Italiane 2022.
She recently worked as 1st assistant set designer in the feature film "100 Preludi" (2023) by Alessandra Pescetta produced by Revok Film and Rai cinema, a project supported by the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission.
She is currently in pre-production with two new short films "Rapacità", screenplay selected at the Figari Film Festival 2022, and "AMNIOS", in collaboration with Diego Loreggian as Creative Producer (RedString) and Paola Piccioli as Executive Producer (First Child Production).