Amateur cinema is a phenomenon that accompanied the history of cinema, often influencing it formally and stylistically. Recently, it has been rediscovered by filmmakers who used and edited the original footage to create new films, often giving a completely new meaning to the original images. Italian cinema is not an exception, and in the recent years even mainstream films started to re-cycle amateur cinema. An example is Martin Eden, which mixed historical amateur films and contemporary fictional shootings to introduce the spectators to the epoch the film is set and to make them feel the characters are “real”. This is only one of the possibilities of amateur footage. These years my focus verted on environmental films from a perspective of ecocritical geopolitics. I noticed that in the last two decades independent Italian filmmakers often recurred to amateur cinema’s footage as a tool to powerfully vehiculate environmental messages. This presentation will introduce the main (new) environmental senses independent filmmakers are giving to amateur footages, from a study of selected films projected in the main environmental festivals in Italy. The aim is to analyse why amateur films are chosen to be part of green films, how they are edited to vehiculate an environmental message, if the senses given by ecocinema were already present in the original footage, what are the potentiality of amateur cinema edited in green films. The analysis will be qualitative and will focus on the filmic language and the discourses vehiculated by the green films, following the guidelines traced by Gillian Rose. The Italian festival explored are CinemAmbiente, Life After Oil, Green Movie Film Festival, Italia Green Film Festival, and GeOFF – GeoFilmFestival. The films analyzed are Thalassa – Uomini E Mare (Gianluca Agati, 2012), ‘U Ferru (Marco Leopardi, 2015), Inferno in Paradiso (Hell in Paradise) (Tiziana Caminada, 2021), Cracolice (Fabio Serpa, 2020), L'ultima Spiaggia di Palermo (Joao Prado, 2018), Turriaki (Salvatore Tuccio, 2013).
Agnoletto, P. (2022). « Verdir » les Homes Movies. Comment les cinéastes indépendants offrent de nouvelles significations aux films amateurs. Intervento presentato a: Réemplois contemporains du film amateur, Nizza, Francia.
« Verdir » les Homes Movies. Comment les cinéastes indépendants offrent de nouvelles significations aux films amateurs
Agnoletto, P
2022
Abstract
Amateur cinema is a phenomenon that accompanied the history of cinema, often influencing it formally and stylistically. Recently, it has been rediscovered by filmmakers who used and edited the original footage to create new films, often giving a completely new meaning to the original images. Italian cinema is not an exception, and in the recent years even mainstream films started to re-cycle amateur cinema. An example is Martin Eden, which mixed historical amateur films and contemporary fictional shootings to introduce the spectators to the epoch the film is set and to make them feel the characters are “real”. This is only one of the possibilities of amateur footage. These years my focus verted on environmental films from a perspective of ecocritical geopolitics. I noticed that in the last two decades independent Italian filmmakers often recurred to amateur cinema’s footage as a tool to powerfully vehiculate environmental messages. This presentation will introduce the main (new) environmental senses independent filmmakers are giving to amateur footages, from a study of selected films projected in the main environmental festivals in Italy. The aim is to analyse why amateur films are chosen to be part of green films, how they are edited to vehiculate an environmental message, if the senses given by ecocinema were already present in the original footage, what are the potentiality of amateur cinema edited in green films. The analysis will be qualitative and will focus on the filmic language and the discourses vehiculated by the green films, following the guidelines traced by Gillian Rose. The Italian festival explored are CinemAmbiente, Life After Oil, Green Movie Film Festival, Italia Green Film Festival, and GeOFF – GeoFilmFestival. The films analyzed are Thalassa – Uomini E Mare (Gianluca Agati, 2012), ‘U Ferru (Marco Leopardi, 2015), Inferno in Paradiso (Hell in Paradise) (Tiziana Caminada, 2021), Cracolice (Fabio Serpa, 2020), L'ultima Spiaggia di Palermo (Joao Prado, 2018), Turriaki (Salvatore Tuccio, 2013).
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