Kind of Blue

by Cecilia Bertoni

sounds 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 
technician: Paolo Morelli

duration 24'46" 
format 4:3 
2013 
available in Italian or in English

Kind of Blue_video

Three Women in the Kitchen Cecilia Bertoni, Claire Guerrier, Mees Three Crumpled Men Marco di Campli San Vito, Piero Leccese, Luigi Petrolini 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)

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

sounds 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 
technician: 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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Un uomo solo (A Man Alone)

by Cecilia Bertoni

sounds 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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