COSIMO TERLIZZI

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