original title:
Ho fatto una barca di soldi
directed by:
cinematography:
editing:
music:
Federico Nardelli, Flavio De Cinti
production:
Zerozerocento, Rai Cinema, Fanfara, with the support of Regione Lazio
world sales:
country:
Italy
year:
2013
film run:
63'
format:
DCP - colour
status:
Ready (14/10/2013)
festivals & awards:
A journey lasting one day, twenty-four hours with artist Fausto Delle Chiaie, a pioneer of Street Art and founder of the Manifesto Infrazionista. A man with fiery eyes and a thick beard who, on the threshold of turning seventy, has one mission before him: to introduce all those people who never set foot in a museum to contemporary art. After years of wandering outside of Italy, Fausto settled in Rome. A shopping cart is his atelier and Piazza Augusto Imperatore his exhibition space.
Director’s statement
Talking to Fausto, I got the impression
that time was standing still, while he sought to understand
whether I had given adequate importance to the title and his
work, and kept checking to make sure I didn’t steal his box
of offerings. “Exhibiting on the street means leaving yourself
open to certain risks” he explained with a smile. His works had
nothing to do with museums, but not because of the space, but
because it didn’t make sense.