original title:
Er
directed by:
cast:
Ermanna Montanari
screenplay:
editing:
production:
Teatro delle Albe – Ravenna Teatro, in collaboration with Antropotopia
country:
Italy
year:
2020
film run:
67'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (19/12/2020)
Er is a 2020 film by Marco Martinelli that extracts a “golden section” from his archive
of work created over four decades with Ermanna Montanari.
Er is a homage to Ermanna and her art as actress and author ever in search of
new forms, sounds, voices. Images from their productions are graft to a long walk
taken by Ermanna, seen from behind, striding along a road in her native Romagnol
countryside. Scenes from plays emerge and flower in counterpoint to her step. Er
takes us into the mind of Ermanna, evoking the combination
Errancy - wandering freely - is at the root of a poetics of making/unmaking/re-making
ever present in the theatre of Ermanna and Marco: always on the road, a mise en
scène that is a mise en vie.