QUATTRO PARETI - Arssalendo
Description :
When the family of a kid hides from him his dog’s death, the older brother takes the kid on a brutal journey towards the grieving process.
"- In the long run, everything dies, your dog as well."
These lines from Arssalendo’s track Quattro Pareti inspired me in drafting the idea for this narrative music video.
Even if the film does have a music video “shape", for me and Arssalendo, the artist and main actor of this film, it is actually a real passion project and a short film.
No one really commissioned it, this project was just born by me and Alessandro (Arssalendo) meeting, appreciating each other's work, talked a bit, realizing we had the same imaginary, the same background, and the same references. And the same will to do something together.
This story talks about the painful theme of the elaboration of mourning, at an age where one does not yet have the tools and experience to deal with loss. A fundamental role is played by an adult world that doesn’t deal with the natural and merciless flow of life. In the crossover between the languages of short film and music video, a deep and desperate affection, the frustration of a lie, and the difficulty of saying goodbye are explored.
This short film, written together with Tobia Rossi, co-produced by Illmatic Film Group, was shot on 16mm film by Francesca Pavoni as director of photography, in my childhood places: a quiet little town suburb above Varese, in the North of Italy, and the wilds around it.
No animals were killed or injured in the realization of this film.
Festivals :
Credits :
Quattro Pareti - Arssalendo
regia / directed by
Giada Bossi
sceneggiatura / screenplay
Giada Bossi e Tobia Rossi
direzione della fotografia / direction of photography
Francesca Pavoni
prodotto da / produced by
Giada Bossi e Jacopo Pica, Illmatic Film Group
con / starring
Giulio Vaccaro e Arssalendo
e con / with
Sara Paganelli
Mario Dama
Adam Idali
Omar Naim
Enrico Di Rosa
producer / producer
Victoria Rabbogliatti e Paco Bonelli
aiuto regia / 1st AD
Lisa Valcarenghi
producer @Illmatic Film Group
Irene Cocola
assistente di produzione / PA
Daniele Pellegrini
runner
Simone Campagna
costumi / wardrobe
Aurora Zaltieri
trucco / makeup
Alessandra Andreotti
scenografia / production design
Luigi Carlo De Pascalis
assistente scenografia / production design assistant
Ailen Ronchetti
focus puller
Jonas Ongaro
loader
Arturo Brunetti
assistente camera / camera assistant
Pasquale Proto
capo elettrico / gaffer
Giovanni Sacchi
elettrico / eletrician
Gaetano Gagliardi
capo macchinista / key grip
Giacomo Colombo
sound recording
Paula Ferri Carazo
sound design
Arssalendo e Mark Ceiling
montaggio / editing
Filippo Patelli
color correction
Orash Rahnema
props
Alberto Michelon, Animal Factor Studio
grafiche / graphics
ROVINE (DRD e POISINME)
equipement
Panalight Milano
laboratorio sviluppo / film development
Movie and Sound Firenze
trasporti / transports
Preda e van4you
No animals were harmed, killed or injured for the realization of this film.
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Nessun animale è stato ucciso o maltrattato per la realizzazione di questo film.
Si ringraziano immensamente / We deeply thanks
Comune di Cunardo, Sara Caputo, Pinuccia Mandelli, Giovanni Crotti, Fabrizio Laudi, Ambrogio Guali, Antonella e Rosy della Casa dei Cagnolini di Cunardo, Irene Belluzzi, Monica Mazzoleni Moroni, Angela Iemmo, Valeria Pini, Sara Barbara, Silvia Rusconi Rebellato, Patrizia Rebellato, Margò Volo, Roberto Bossi, La Vecchia Cunardo, Stefano Bossi, Stefania Chiodini, Joshua Bossi, Sara Zanotti, Simone Andina, Lorena Bossi, Silvano Colucci, Claudio Bossi, Serena Castiglioni, Comune di Cassano Valcuvia, Miriam Piccolino, Paolo Sartorio and all the people that kindly helped us in any tiny detail of this project.
Un abbraccio a Giuli. / A big hug to Giuli