FIVE MEN, A DIARY BEYOND THE STAGE
DOCUMENTARY | 62′ | Switzerland, Italy
Era il 2008 quando, con una telecamera amatoriale, Antonio ha documentato i suoi colleghi nei camerini dello spettacolo in cui recitava. Le cassette sono state dimenticate per più di dieci anni prima di diventare questo film. Il materiale girato in maniera istintiva, si è rivelato un commovente diario senza filtri dove Antonio svela le fragilità, i dubbi, la gioia e le difficoltà del mestiere dell’attore. I camerini appaiono come l’altra faccia del palcoscenico: un luogo intimo, segreto e di passaggio, dove gli attori posano per un po’ sul tavolo la loro maschera.
It was 2008 when Antonio documented with an amateur camera his colleagues in the backstage of the show in which he was acting. The tapes were forgotten for more than a decade before they became this film. The instinctively shot material turned out to be a moving, unfiltered diary where Antonio reveals the frailties, doubts, joy and difficulties of the actor’s craft. The dressing rooms appear as the other side of the stage: an intimate, secret, and transient place where actors lay their masks on the table for a while.
A FILM BY Cosimo Terlizzi
BASED ON THE ARCHIVE VIDEOS BY Antonio Buil
WITH Antonio Buil, Dorin Dragos, Abder Ouldhaddi, Boubacar Samb, Bartek Sozanski
VOICE OFF Antonio Buil
CAMERA Antonio Buil, Bartek Sozanski
EDITING, TEXTS Cosimo Terlizzi
EDITING ASSISTANT Robert Bouvier
ORIGINAL SCORE Agostino Nestola
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Damien Modolo
PRODUCTION Compagnie du Passage, Lamia Santolina