Détour De Seta
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Détour De Seta is a 2004 documentary film
directed by Salvo Cuccia
about Vittorio De Seta
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films and looking for people who had contact with him, as the Cozzo Disi sulfur miners, Ganzirri swordfish
fishermens and shepherds who attended in drama Banditi a Orgosolo
, the documentary focuses on great change started in local cultures of the Southern Italy from 1945.
The film includes an interview with De Seta, conversations with the film directors Luciano Tovoli
, Franco Maresco, Gianfranco Pannone, writers Vincenzo Consolo
, Goffredo Fofi, Eugenio Turri and the critic Marco Gazzano.
Set in Calabria
, Sardinia
and Sicily
, the film was shot in 35mm film and digital
, contains stock footage
and images taken by De Seta.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Salvo Cuccia
Salvo Cuccia
Salvo Cuccia is an Italian cinema director and screenwriter.- Filmography :*1993. Duo with Peter Kowald.*1995. Un sogno di lumaca.*2003. Il Satiro danzante.*2004. Détour De Seta.*2006. Oltre Selinunte....
about Vittorio De Seta
Vittorio De Seta
Vittorio De Seta was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of the Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the Sixties.- Biography :...
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Plot
By tracing the places of Vittorio De SetaVittorio De Seta
Vittorio De Seta was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of the Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the Sixties.- Biography :...
films and looking for people who had contact with him, as the Cozzo Disi sulfur miners, Ganzirri swordfish
Swordfish
Swordfish , also known as broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat bill. They are a popular sport fish of the billfish category, though elusive. Swordfish are elongated, round-bodied, and lose all teeth and scales by adulthood...
fishermens and shepherds who attended in drama Banditi a Orgosolo
Banditi a Orgosolo
Banditi a Orgosolo is a 1960 Italian film drama directed by Vittorio De Seta. The film stars Vittorina Pisano. De Seta won an Award for the film at the Venice Film Festival.-Cast:*Vittorina Pisano ... Mintonia...
, the documentary focuses on great change started in local cultures of the Southern Italy from 1945.
The film includes an interview with De Seta, conversations with the film directors Luciano Tovoli
Luciano Tovoli
Luciano Tovoli , is an Italian cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter. While the majority of the titles in his filmography are Italian, he has worked as cinematographer on several United States and French productions.His films include Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger , Walerian...
, Franco Maresco, Gianfranco Pannone, writers Vincenzo Consolo
Vincenzo Consolo
Vincenzo Consolo is an Italian writer. He has lived in Milan since 1969. He debuted in 1963, but gained wider attention in 1976 with Il sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio and has since become an award-winning author.- References :...
, Goffredo Fofi, Eugenio Turri and the critic Marco Gazzano.
Set in Calabria
Calabria
Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....
, Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
and Sicily
Sicily
Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...
, the film was shot in 35mm film and digital
Digital cinematography
Digital cinematography is the process of capturing motion pictures as digital images, rather than on film. Digital capture may occur on video tape, hard disks, flash memory, or other media which can record digital data. As digital technology has improved, this practice has become increasingly common...
, contains stock footage
Stock footage
Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage are film or video footage that may or may not be custom shot for use in a specific film or television program. Stock footage is of beneficial use to filmmakers as it is sometimes less expensive than shooting new...
and images taken by De Seta.
Festivals
- Détour De Seta was screened for the first time at the 2004 Locarno Film FestivalLocarno International Film FestivalThe Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. After Cannes and Venice and together with Karlovy Vary, Locarno is the Film Festival with the longest history...
. - In order to celebrate Vittorio De SetaVittorio De SetaVittorio De Seta was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of the Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the Sixties.- Biography :...
, the documentary was introduced by Martin ScorseseMartin ScorseseMartin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
at the 2005 Tribeca Film FestivalTribeca Film FestivalThe Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
and Full Frame Documentary Film FestivalFull Frame Documentary Film FestivalThe Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina for a four-day, morning to midnight...
. - 2007. BigScreen FestivalBigScreen FestivalThe BigScreen festival or "BigScreen Italia" is a film festival that focuses on Chinese and Italian cinema. It was first held in 2004 in Padua, Italy, but has recently been moved to Kunming, Yunnan, China.-BigScreen Asia '01:...
: Docs & Movies. KunmingKunming' is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. It was known as Yunnan-Fou until the 1920s. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of Yunnan, and is the seat of the provincial government...
(YunnanYunnanYunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...
- ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
). - 2008. Histoires d'It. Le nouveau documentaire italien. Italian Cultural InstituteIstituto Italiano di CulturaThe Istituto Italiano di Cultura is a worldwide non-profit organization created by the Italian government. It promotes Italian culture and is involved in the teaching of the Italian language, it is similar to the French Alliance Française, the Spanish Cervantes Institute, the British Council and...
in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
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