Viaggio nel crepuscolo

Film directed by Augusto Contento, co-produced by Cineparallax and Articolture, selected out of competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival, 2021. An exploration of the roads that lead into the cold darkness of Italian decline: decline of the family, of patriarchal society, of educational institutions, of religion. In a land where common, public, shared space is molded by a drab, amorphous egotism, even its revolutionary, socialist, communist ideals, mixed with a Manichaean Catholicism, have been transformed into fideistic and totalitarian dogmas.

Production: Giancarlo Grande, Ivan Olgiati, Chiara Galloni

Director: Augusto Contento

Fotography: Augusto Contento

Editing: Augusto Contento

Animazione: Marco Belli

Music: Paolo Cantù

Costumes: Frank Andò

Sound: Stefano Agnini – presa diretta, Daniele Cevasco – presa diretta, Giovanni Frezza – montaggio e mix

Original soundtrack composed and played by Paolo Cantù, featuring Thiago França on sax and flute and vocal contributions by Federico Ciappini, Laetitia Sadier, Mark Stewart, Juçara Marçal, Margareth Kammerer and Audrey Chen.

Festival:

Romania BUZZ IFF 2022 (Documentary section) Best Documentary

Russia Pacific Meridian FF 2022 (Documentary section)

Italy - Sudestival, Monopoli (Documentary section) Best Documentary

The Netherlands Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 (Cinema Regained)

Italy Trieste Film Festival 2022 (The Corso Salani Competition) Special Mention of the Jury

Italy Venice Film Festival 2021 (Out of competition) World Premiere

[...] Through multiple languages, Paolo Cantù's music shapes the narrative sequences. The images are used like words in poetry and the sound defines the psychology of the characters, the dramaturgical quality of an action and the metaphysical side of a space .. .

(Valeria Di Brisco - Gagarin)

[...] The flow of animated images accompanies these important revelations and is underlined by Paolo Cantù's psychedelic rock that transforms the documentary into a hallucinated journey through the dark areas of a country without any identity ...

(Simone Emiliani – Sentieri Selvaggi)