Kind of Blue - video installations

BY CECILIA BERTONI
2013

Kind of Blue, Lui e Lei (Him and Her) and Un uomo solo (A Man Alone): three short videos available both for projection and installation. Director Cecilia Bertoni creates video portraits exploring herself and the performers of the two first parts of the Trilogia dell'Assenza (Trilogy of Absence) as people without a role, as if they were nothing else but themselves. These short films, premièred on 18 May 2013, were created for Kind of Blue, as the final part of the trilogy.

Kind of Blue
BY CECILIA BERTONI

sound and music  Carl G. Beukman
 
texts  Cecilia Bertoni, Serge Cartellier and Mauro Carulli 
assistant director  Alice Mollica 
camera  Mauro Carulli, BAM 
editing  Mauro Carulli, Cecilia Bertoni 
technical director  Paolo Morelli
duration  24'46" - format 4:3 - 2013 
available in Italian or in English

Tre donne in cucina (Three Women in the Kitchen)
Cecilia Bertoni, Claire Guerrier, Mees
Tre Uomini Diroccati (Three Crumpled Men)
Marco di Campli San Vito, Piero Leccese, Luigi Petrolini
Due Donne (Two Women)
Marialucia Carones, Serena Gatti
Lui e Lei (Him & Her)
Cecilia Bertoni, Serge Cartellier
Un uomo solo (A Man Alone)
Carl G. Beukman
Narrator
Mauro Carulli (Italian version), David Geysen (English version)

Kind of Blue_video

In the video "Kind of Blue" the director, Cecilia Bertoni, creates portraits exploring her fellow performers as people without a role, merely themselves. In a circular narrative structure, five stories follow one another, linked by an intimacy that displays itself through environment, objects and the everyday clothes of these same performers. The director explores their physical and mental obsessions and their relationship to creative act. The bathrooms of their own homes, of a hotel or a dilapidated building, become the places in which their secrets, their acts of madness and their disappointments become explicit, while a kitchen becomes the nerve centre of the creation, but also the prelude and the epilogue of an endless wait. A voice off-stage, which the viewer assumes is the narrator, is only seemingly arbitrarily connected.

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Lui e Lei (Him and Her)
BY CECILIA BERTONI

sound and music  Carl G. Beukman 
text  Cecilia Bertoni and Serge Cartellier 
with  Cecilia Bertoni and Serge Cartellier 
assistant director  Alice Mollica 
camera  Mauro Carulli 
editing  Mauro Carulli and Cecilia Bertoni 
technical direction  Paolo Morelli
duration  6'45" - format 4:3 - 2013 
available in Italian or in English

Lui e Lei

In the video "Him & Her" the director Cecilia Bertoni creates a portrait of her fellow stage performer, Serge Cartellier, and of herself. Now, however, they are people without a role, merely themselves. Shut in the solitude of a bathroom, they obsessively try to strip the vestiges of memory, erasing space and washing from their bodies the calligraphy and the stories of their experiences. A weaving of images, with two different states of velocity and intensity of editing, in which the unresolvable quarrel with memory comes to life.

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ROME, 9 JUNE 2015
Festival Piccola Scena Digitale
DIGITAL SHORT MOVIE CONTEST
A VIDEO-THEATRE, VIDEO-DANCE AND VIDEO-PERFORMANCE EVENT
DEDICATED TO THE INVISIBLE PRISONS OF OUR TIMES

Jury Special Mention

"For the synthesis of materic art and visionary inspiration. Two interdependent lives, carried by the performative rhythm of a definitive action, find existential space and shape in an imaginary elsewhere."

Un uomo solo (A Man Alone)
BY CECILIA BERTONI

sound and music  Carl G. Beukman 
with  Carl G. Beukman 
assistant director  Alice Mollica 
camera  Mauro Carulli 
editing  Mauro Carulli, Cecilia Bertoni
duration  4'40" - format 4:3 - 2013

Un uomo solo

In the video "Un uomo solo" ("A Man Alone") the director Cecilia Bertoni creates a portrait of musician and long-time colleague Carl G. Beukman, investigating his physical and mental obsessions and their relationship to creative act. The eye of the camera follows him from an increasingly close-up angle and from above. In the isolated and claustrophobic space of his bathroom, immersed in a bath and surrounded by objects that increasingly reassure him, the action unfolds into a shamanic ritual. Cloaked in his own solitude, he conducts a silent and invisibile orchestra. He will emerge transformed.

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 Kind of Blue

BY CECILIA BERTONI
2013

Kind of Blue - appunti
(Kind of Blue - a Journal)

BY CECILIA BERTONI
2013

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