Ritratti abusivi

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Ritratti abusivi

Ritratti abusivi

original title:

Ritratti abusivi

cast:

Pasquale Patierno, Salvatore Palomba, Vincenzo Marotta, Ciro Salessi, Caterina Cerchia, Lello Cerchia, Carmine Migliaccio, Claudia Conte, Costantino Migliaccio, Nello Formisano, Emanuele Conte, Marco Formisano, Bian Migliaccio, Giuseppe Cantone, Carmine Migliaccio, Gennaro Raducci, Vincenzo Puocci, Ulrike Dentale

screenplay:

Romano Montesarchio, Vincenzo Ammaliato

cinematography:

Romano Montesarchio, Raffaele Manco

music:

Massimiliano Gaudio

country:

Italy

year:

2013

film run:

70'

format:

HD - colour

aspect ratio:

16:9

status:

Ready (14/10/2013)

festivals & awards:

Trapped for over ten years in an extremely run-down and crime-ridden area where time stands still, the squatters in the Parco Saraceno lead their lives amidst poverty and illegality, prey to the everyday violence while dreaming of a normal life. Change is coming to the park, however. In a few years it’s all going to be razed to the ground to make way for a harbour for pleasure boats, to relaunch the entire area. A grotesque group portrait composed of the words and faces of the residents who know the stories, and the humanity, of this extreme, forgotten community.

Director’s statement
Ritratti abusivi is a tale of two failures: the failure of the government, which has allowed dozens of kilometres of Campania’s coast to be paved over haphazardly, and the failure of a photography project I had undertaken in the area, and described in my documentary devoted to the Domitiana highway.