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01 October1930
Cinema drunks
Author
Mario Cessi
Format
9,5mm
Duration
5'45''
Credits
Music: Nother, from the project 4 Visions Esplorazioni Sonore

In this 'crazy' 9.5 mm film shot in the Apulian countryside in just a few minutes, everything happens. Between the arrivals and departures of carts, the rolling of empty barrels filled with humans, the bathing with well water, and the finale with a small group getting lost in the ruins of Lucera, there is almost something for everyone. Perhaps only the pig will disagree. Yet filmmaker Mario Cessi does not want to imitate the Marx Brothers, he simply wants to have fun, involving and portraying relatives, friends and peasants. Games and jokes at the end of the grape harvest period, which Cessi himself has filmed on other occasions. It may be early days for new wine, but the people filmed are so cheerful that they look tipsy. It must be the drunkenness caused by the camera that excites everyone a little: for a moment - and in this carnival - the mechanical eye confuses and even cancels out the social differences of the people filmed. Are we (at least for once) all the same in front of the camera? I may be a brief cinematic illusion, but 'in camera veritas'...

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