(15’, fiction, 16mm, UK)
DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI
CAST: ARTURO VENEGAS, HARRIET BENSON.
CAST: ARTURO VENEGAS, HARRIET BENSON.
2984 is a fifteen minute drama focusing on a society in the future. In this post-apocalyptical environment, the world population has diminished radically and man is threatened with extintion; partly because of ecological and nuclear catastrophe and also because of the appearance of various types of unknown and uncontrollable diseases. As an desperate attempt to continue human life on the planet, extreme and drastic measures are adopted; individuals are stratified in five categories according to their risk category, and any form of human contact, particularly inter-categories, is forbidden. Into this chaotic world Mary and Antony fall in love and defying the institutions they dream on an utopic normality.
2984 è la storia di un amore impossibile tra Anthony e Mary. Il film è ambientato in una società post apocalittica, divisa in cinque categorie, in modo di controllare così la minaccia di varie e nuove malattie che rischiano d’estinguere la razza umana. I due protagonisti appartenenti a categorie diverse, sfidano le istituzioni repressive e sognano un’ utopica normalità.
FUJI FILM AWARD 1990, BAFTA, Londra, Ottobre 1990.
(2’04”, Super-8, U-matic, UK)
DIRECTION/REGIA CÉSAR MENEGHETTI
CAST: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI, CLAUDIA SEABRA
A video about circles and cycles. The
motion is basically composed of a three second Super-8 loop portraying an
action involving a couple spinning in circles as metaphor of the ordinary cycle
in the human history. A parallel analogy through film and tape language: a
series of filming and re-filming with video and super-8 from the TV screen or
Super-8 projection. Related to the editing of this circular pieces and relating
this to a rotation of a record player, playing the theme music: “a woman can
take you to another universe but sometimes she just leaves you there” by John
Lurie, which itself belongs to another film.
33rd LONDON FILM
FESTIVAL, Current diversities, London, November 1989.
1988: VIDEO SKETCH N. 1, 2, 3, 4
(1 to 7’04”, Video VHS, UK)
DIRECTION/REGIA CÉSAR MENEGHETTI
CAST: MONICA RICCO PANCIROLI, MICHAEL PARK
An experimental video researching on painting and the electronic medium.
1986:SIMULTÂNEA/SIMULTANEOUS/SIMULTANEA
(8’30”, Super-8, Brazil)
DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI
Calvino writes “...when arriving in a new city the traveller re-encounters a past in which he did not remember to existing; the surprise of what he left behind of pursuing, of being, it reveals in the most strange places, not in the familiar ones - little that is its, discovering a lot that has not had and ". A man and its city. The anthropomorphist image is a metaphor to the human condition in a chaotic environment like the megalopolis of São Paulo. In the middle of 21 million inhabitants a story told in subjective view and no dialogues has just started making to emerge inner conflicts in the urban surroundings. Subjectively and objectively. Reality and dream. All in once. Simultaneously.
Calvino scrive che “Il viaggiatore riconosce il poco che è suo, scoprendo il molto che non ha avuto e non avrà". Un uomo e la sua città. L'immagine antropomorfica è un’allegoria alla condizione umana in un ambiente caotico come la megalopoli di São Paulo. In mezzo a 21 milioni di abitanti un racconto in soggettiva e senza dialoghi è avviato facendo affiorare conflitti interni nell’ambiente circostante. Obiettivo e soggettivo. Realtà e sogno. Tutto in una volta. Simultaneamente.
FILM FESTIVAL VIDEOPOLIS, lo sgurado sullo spazio urbano, Padova, 1998.
Terza edizione “PREMIO DELLA CRITICA CINEMATOGRAFICA E TELEVISIVA ALTA MARCA ANCONETANA” Ancona, 1999.