Michelangelo Frammartino on Nicola Lanza, the shepherd in Il Buco (The Hole): “His face seems like the bark of a tree; it seems created by the stones of the Pollino.”
When I spoke with Michelangelo Frammartino in 2013 at the Tribeca Film Festival MoMA PS1 world première of Alberi, hosted by Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer, I mentioned that he should check out James Turrell’s Meeting on the third floor. Now in 2022 he sees the connection to Meeting and the opening shot by cinematographer Renato Berta in Il Buco (The Hole), co-written with Giovanna Giuliani and produced by Marco Serrecchia.
Michelangelo Frammartino with Anne-Katrin Titze and the rock on shepherds: “They have this ability to never appear, and therefore they are the voice of the mountain.”
Bird sounds start the film, as we see the sky from below, from the perspective of a cave with a vaguely horseshoe-shaped opening. The...
When I spoke with Michelangelo Frammartino in 2013 at the Tribeca Film Festival MoMA PS1 world première of Alberi, hosted by Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer, I mentioned that he should check out James Turrell’s Meeting on the third floor. Now in 2022 he sees the connection to Meeting and the opening shot by cinematographer Renato Berta in Il Buco (The Hole), co-written with Giovanna Giuliani and produced by Marco Serrecchia.
Michelangelo Frammartino with Anne-Katrin Titze and the rock on shepherds: “They have this ability to never appear, and therefore they are the voice of the mountain.”
Bird sounds start the film, as we see the sky from below, from the perspective of a cave with a vaguely horseshoe-shaped opening. The...
- 5/19/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New York-based distribution company Grasshopper Film and Gratitude Films have jointly acquired U.S. distribution rights to Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino’s Venice Special Jury Prize winner “Il Buco,” about a group of speleologists who in 1961 discover Europe’s deepest cave.
The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey of Grasshopper Film with Nadine Rothschild of Paris and Berlin-based Coproduction Office on the eve of the U.S. premiere of “Il Buco” at the New York Film Festival.
Gratitude, which is based in Los Angeles and Mumbai, is headed by Anu Rangachar, a producer and the former programmer for the Mumbai Film Festival.
With “Il Buco” Frammartino, whose dialogue-free “Le Quattro Volte” made a global splash in 2010, has segued with another similarly eclectic pic that has no dialogue or music.
His latest work reconstructs the young cave scientists’ journey to explore the depth of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth in the pristine Calabrian hinterland.
The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey of Grasshopper Film with Nadine Rothschild of Paris and Berlin-based Coproduction Office on the eve of the U.S. premiere of “Il Buco” at the New York Film Festival.
Gratitude, which is based in Los Angeles and Mumbai, is headed by Anu Rangachar, a producer and the former programmer for the Mumbai Film Festival.
With “Il Buco” Frammartino, whose dialogue-free “Le Quattro Volte” made a global splash in 2010, has segued with another similarly eclectic pic that has no dialogue or music.
His latest work reconstructs the young cave scientists’ journey to explore the depth of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth in the pristine Calabrian hinterland.
- 10/10/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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