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Esterno giorno

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Esterno giorno

Esterno giorno

original title:

Esterno giorno

directed by:

Giulia Magno

cast:

Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Richard Harris

screenplay:

Giulia Magno

cinematography:

Giulia Magno

editing:

Giulia Magno

producer:

Fulvio Paganin

production:

Distretto Cinema, in collaboration with Archivio Michelangelo Antonioni

country:

Italy

year:

2022

film run:

8'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (07/07/2022)

festivals & awards:

  • Cork International Film Festival 2022: International Shorts
  • Icaro International Film Festival 2022: Selección Internacional
  • Message to Man International Film Festival 2022: Experimental Film Competition
  • Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2023: Market
  • Montecatini International Short Film Festival 2022: Best Experimental Film
  • Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Bracciano 2022: Official selection
  • ShorTS – International Film Festival 2023: Italia in Shorts
  • Social World Film Festival 2023: Nuovi linguaggi
  • Athens International Film + Video Festival 2023: Competition
  • European Film Forum Scanorama 2022: Glimpses of Europe
  • St. Moritz Art Film Festival 2023: International Competition
  • Milano Design Film Festival 2022: Selezione ufficiale
  • Minikino Film Week - Bali International Short Film Festival 2023: Official Selection - Tribute
  • Festival de Cinema de Avanca 2022: Cinema de Itália
  • Matera Film Festival 2022: Concorso
  • Interface Video Art Festival 2023: Official Selection
  • International Experimental Film Festival 2023: Official Selection
  • International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona 2023: Competition - Memory and Experience
  • Ghent Short International Film Festival 2023: Competition
  • Venice Architecture Film Festival 2022: Finalist
  • The Next Generation Short Film Festival 2022: Artist’s Films Competition
  • Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine 2022: Regiones Salvajes - Cortometrajes
  • Tehran International Short Film Festival 2022: International Competition
  • FLIGHT - Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova 2022: Concorso
  • Lund Architecture Film Festival 2022: International Competition
  • Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg 2022: International Competition
  • Ibrida Festival delle arti intermediali 2023: Kinesis
  • B3 Festival of the Moving Image 2022: Short Film Competition
  • Northwest Film Forum – ByDesign 2023: In the In-Between: Short Film Program
  • Rencontres Internationales Traverse Vidéo 2023: Art expérimental
  • Música x Arquitectura Open House Barcelona 2024: MxA-Video Competition
  • art+film+vienna 2024: Role Models & Stereotypes
  • Arquitectura Film Festival Santiago 2024: International Competition

Inspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, Esterno giorno is an experimental love letter to Italian cinema. Embarking on an intimate journey in the footsteps of the characters played by Monica Vitti, the filmmaker intertwines contemporary footage shot across Italy and the Jordanian desert with excerpts from Antonioni’s films, creating an illusion of continuity between past and present. From a metaphorical desert—the industrial area of Ravenna, where Red Desert was filmed in 1964—to a real one, the physical spaces explored by the camera transform into psychological landscapes. As the camera lingers on the architecture of La Cupola—the futuristic house in Sardinia designed by Dante Bini in the 1960s for Antonioni and Vitti, then real-life partners—the line between reality and fiction begins to blur.