A live stage show with tremendous visual impact! Witness Caravaggio’s most amazing paintings come to life on stage, right before your eyes, using the tableaux vivants technique, French for “living pictures”.
Using basic materials and simple objects, the actors of the Malatheatre company, under the direction of Ludovica Rambelli, give life to the most popular paintings of the great master, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
Autor and theatrical director: Ludovica Rambelli – Movie director: Massimo D’Alessandro – Duration: 40 minutes – Music: Bach, Mozart, Sibelius, Vivaldi and others – Master HDV 1080i 16:9 – Any language is available
Si è svolta tra il 26 luglio e il 13 agosto la seconda missione del Progetto LIBURNA, condotto, con la direzione di Giuliano Volpe, dal Dipartimento di Scienze Umane dell’Università degli Studi di Foggia, in collaborazione con l’Istituto di Archeologia del Centro studi albanologici di Tirana. Tale progetto, avviato nel 2007, si avvale del supporto di numerosi partners ed enti promotori tra cui il Ministero per gli Affari Esteri, la Regione Puglia, l’Agenzia per il Patrimonio Culturale Euromediterraneo, il Ministero della Cultura Albanese, l’Università di Tirana, la Marina Militare Albanese e la Guardia di Finanza italiana-Nucleo Frontiera Marittima di Durazzo (col. C. Serra, cap. G. Carrieri), che ha fornito il supporto logistico dei suoi mezzi navali. Decisivo il ruolo dell’Ambasciata Italiana in Albania, in particolare dell’addetto alla cooperazione scientifica prof. A. Ciani, per la soluzione di numerosi problemi legati alla missione. L’équipe di ricerca, composta da una ventina di persone, è costituita da docenti prof. G. Volpe), ricercatori (dott. Danilo Leone e Maria Turchiano), dottorandi e studenti dell’Università di Foggia, oltre ai tecnici subacquei dell’Associazione ASSO di Roma (responsabile dott. Mario Mazzoli) e ad archeologi albanesi (dott. Adrian Anastasi dell’Istituto di Archeologia, referente albanese del Progetto e attualmente dottorando di ricerca all’Università di Foggia).
A lot of they are the histories on dramatic naval fights and sinkings of military ships during the two world conflicts. But when an attach war it strikes a ship hospital the story assumes a completely different meaning. The story made of sacrifice and devotion of the medical personnel of the CRI during the second world conflict. The story of the tragedy of the Ship Hospital PO. In March of 1941 an English torpedo-bomber strikes the Ship Hospital PO, moored in the bay of Valona, in Albania. On board it is present Edda Ciano Mussolini, daughter of the Duce, as voluntary Crocerossina. Edda miraculously succeeds in being saved but unfortunately less fortunate fate touches to three more present crocerossines on board: Maria Federici, Vanda Sechi ed Ennia Tramontani, personal Edda’s best friends. The documentary will narrate the personal stories and the historical motivations what brought to this tragedy gathering the occasion to tell the courage and the devotion of the physicians and the voluntary Crocerossines. during the war conflicts, up to our days. The story of the courage and the devotion of the physicians and the crocerossines that on board of the ships hospital they put to risk theirs own life to bring in safe and to take care of the wounded soldiers in the fights it constitutes another important trace fiction on which the documentary will be developed. Documentation and testimonies of the Red Cross will constitute founding and essential element of the story.
Otherwise from the standard of the historical documentaries, where the resumptions video on the wreckage usually constitute a complementary and minority part of the story, in our case the expeditions and the underwater explorations that will be taken place on the wreckage of the Ship PO will constitute one of the carrying fulcrums of the documentary. The results of these explorations are in fact still unpredictable, since after the recovery of the corpses of the crocerossines in March of 1941, nobody has more had the opportunity to explore in deepened way the inside of the wreckage. Our history will begin underwater inside the Ship and will continue during the whole exploration setting the documents and the historical reconstructions, the inserts video and the interviews in the various points of the exploration, “evoked” from objects and places recovered inside the wreckage.
We will follow A.S.S.O. and the Underground Research Centre EGERIA through the underground passages and tunnels of the San Nilo Abbey in Grottaferrata in an exploration that as its main purpose, has the surveying, documenting and reconstructing of the underground structures of the architectonic complex. Built on the ruins of a majestic Roman villa, the central part was made up by a low building in “opus quadratum”, formerly a sepulchral cell of the Republican era, readapted from the Vth century as a Christian oratory. It had double iron grating at the windows, from which was drawn the name of the surrounding area, called Cryptaferrata [then Grottaferrata]. But the research, of a scientific-character, could also lead to unexpected findings; to date, in fact, no one has yet found the small silver coffin that preserves the mortal remains of the Saint….
Selected in Competition at the International Exhibition of the Archaeological Cinema held in Rovereto 2007
DV 4:3 / Duration: 30 minutes / Authors: NICOLETTA RETICO, MASSIMO D’ALESSANDRO / Producers: MARIA TERESA PILLONI, MARIO MAZZOLI / Photograpy: MARCO CAMPOLUNGO / Music: FLIPPER MUSIC EDITION / Director: MASSIMO D’ALESSANDRO
An excursion in the caves of Diros in Greece is an unforgettable experience. The boat glides on the crystal-clear waters descending from Mount Taigeto, between cleverly illuminated stalactites and stalagmites. For 30 minutes, one lives in a world of unreal splendour, passing from a cave to the next, the deepest of which, called the “Big Ocean”, reaches a depth of 70 metres. After having rowed for about 800 metres on board small boats, in religious silence, a group of underwater spelaeologists lower themselves into the submerged and mostly unexplored cavities in this immense complex, gently paddling with flippers through unreal and awesome environments, amid calcareous columns that remind one of a cathedral, though narrow passages that lead to halls with changing colours, in one of the most beautiful submerged caves of the whole planet. But, the surprises don’t end here: in the most recessed part were found bones belonging to prehistoric animals that, thousands upon thousands of years ago, fleeing the glaciations, found their last shelter here …
Selected in Competition at the International Exhibition of the Archaeological Cinema held in Rovereto 2006
Selected in Competition at the “FESTIVAL MONDIAL DE L’IMAGE SOUS MARINE” held in Antibes (France) – 2006
Selected in Competition at the “SOLUNTO FILM FESTIVAL” held in Palermo (Italy) – 2006
Selected in Competition at the BEOGRAD International UNDERWATER FILM FESTIVAL held in Beograd (Serbia) – 2006
Selected in Competition at the “FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA ARCHEOLOGICO – “CAPITELLO D’ORO” held in Rome (Italy) – 2007
DV 4:3 / Duration: 30 minutes / Authors: NICOLETTA RETICO, MASSIMO D’ALESSANDRO / Producers: MARIO MAZZOLI / Photograpy: MARCO CAMPOLUNGO / Music: FLIPPER MUSIC EDITION / Director: MASSIMO D’ALESSANDRO
