Treatment for Six Characters, an unrealised film by Luigi Pirandello, 5 minute extract This is a 5 minute extract from a longer 33 min short film. High Definition video Approximately 30 mins duration. Language: Italian, with English subtitles. The Narrator: Norman Mozzato. The Mother: Simona Senzacqua. The Chorus: Simone Douani, Nadia Ostacchini & Lara Parmiani. Lighting technician, Teatro Valle: Saba Kasmai. For the last 10 years of his life Italian writer Luigi Pirandello wished to make a film that could act as a precursor to his seminal 1921 meta-play Six Characters in Search of an Author. This was to feature his encounters with a Roman family who unwittingly became catalysts for the development of the famous play; the film was to represent the early creative development of Six Characters. Had the film been realised it would also have marked Pirandello’s acting debut, better allowing him to frame his interest in the ambiguous ethics of the creative process within which a successful author’s projective imagination has a disastrous effect on the life of a family, ending in tragedy. His film was to conclude with a fictionalized account of the event of the historical premier of Six Characters at Teatro Valle in 1921, Rome’s oldest working theatre: the play and the film would have formed an innovative kind of loop precisely united in place while connected by a curiously inverted temporal relationship. Pirandello tried, without success, to get Treatment for Six Characters made thirty-nine times. His texts for the film, a series of descriptive prose paragraphs, was found by chance in the archives of Austrian theatre director Max Rheinhart in the 1980’s. During a Scholarship at the British School at Rome in 2012 Anne-Marie adapted Pirandello’s original 1935 treatment, now narrated by veteran Italian actor Norman Mozzato (who was also Andrei Tarkovsky’s Assistant Director on the film “Nostalgia”), and indeed set the final quarter of the film at Teatro Valle. This has been underpinned by the fact that this influential 1724 theatre is currently under occupation, now run by Fondazione Teatro Valle Occupato, considered an important occupied experiment in Europe (and the focus of increasing media interest). Teatro Valle Occupato collaborated with Anne-Marie, giving her on-going access to the theatre as well as supporting work with actors and lighting technicians. Pirandello’s film is then not just largely set in the locations he wished but also within a newly intense social and political space whose urgencies add new dimensions to the underlying risks of Pirandello’s unrealized project. Apart from a single crucial sequence featuring the actress Simona Senzacqua as the bereft Mother the locations of this Pirandello film (which also features Pirandello’s home in Rome, Studio di Luigi Pirandello, Rome and iconic Italian fashion atelier Fondazione Micol Fontana) has been lit and filmed without actors. This is part of Anne-Marie’s deliberately oblique approach to Pirandellos text, exploring what can be called a ‘cinema of the mind’. She has considered Pirandello’s film as kind of ruin and from its fragments she sought not to make the film in its entirety but instead to construct one film around the paradoxical lures and failures of another, absent film. Made with the kind support of: British School at Rome, Derek Hill Scholarship Fondazione Micol Fontana, Rome Fondazione Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome Istituto di Studi Pirandelliani e sul Teatro Contemporaneo - Studio di Luigi Pirandello, Rome With production support from: Tony Alotta, Jacopo Benci, Francesco Buonerba, Elisa Giovannetti, Maria Cristina Giusti, Dina Saponaro & Lucia Torsello Special thanks to: Richard & Anna Allalouf Craig Nicholls Fabio Piras & Lars Sture Abbi Torrance James Van der Pool & Jane Hardy Professor Marina Wallace Dr. Klaus Wehner Karen Wilkinson & Margaret, Des, Adie, Sean & James, Creamer, The Pirandello Society of American Eleonora Chiari Plus:Michele Spoonley, Ingrid Swenson, Jane Hamilton Whatling, Bev Broadhead, Mary Heagney, Maziar Raein, Madeleine Creamer, Kelly Chorpening, Cooper Troxell, Jennet Thomas, Rebecca Fortnum, Carrie Creamer, Philomena and Bertie Creamer, Klaus Wehner, Karen David, Charlene Curran, Lars Sture, Sue Kennington, Jasmina Bosnjak, Karen Wilkinson, Margaret, Des, Adie, James and Sean Creamer, Jordan McKenzie, Stephen Felmingham, Jenny Mellings, Mia Jackson, Joelene Molloy, Annette Robinson, Sarah Harbridge, Alex Bradley, Tamiko O’Brien, John Griffin, Helena Davey, Louisa Minkin, Neil Johnson, Steven Eastwood, Tania Kovats, Jordan Baseman, Sally Payen, Gary Thomas, Lee Trimming, Tina O’Connell, Georgina Turner, Angela de la Cruz, Christina Bryant, Sonia Boyce, Thierry de Duve, Simon Wells, Axel Lapp, Petra Hudcova, Chris Agnew, Alan Magee, Massimo de Cristofaro, Judith Tucker, Michael Petry, Craig Nicholls, Carolyn Gowdy, Greysi De Los Santos, Nina Coulson, Gilane Tawadros. _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Classic Radio _______ FB: r-js/1vz7Pcz / TW: r-js/1kHd2Qt / Listen to LIPSapp Classic Radio r-js/1dOIQ18 #classicrock #rollingstones #ledzeppelin #santana #eagles #zztop #thewho #beatles #elvis #jimihendrix #dylan #acdc #michaeljackson #pinkfloyd #madonna #u2
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