剧情介绍
2009 – colore – 90’
Direction: Alessandro Fabrizi
Cinematography: Roberto De Amicis, Enrico Parenti
Editing: Barbara Galli
Music: Gianluca Misiti
Cast: Noel Arthur, Isabelle Byloos, Ken Cheeseman, Christian Crahay, Luca De Bei, Paula Langton, Kristin Linklater, Manuela Mandracchia, Laura Mazzi, Gabriele Parrillo, Marco Quaglia, Alessandro Quattro, Maya Sansa, Fabrice Scott, Kate Udall, Valentino Villa
Producers: Andrea Petrozzi, Alessandro Fabrizi
Production: World Video Production con la collaborazione di Fourlab
SYNOPSIS
Stromboli, Sicily. Kristin Linklater (voice teacher and text coach) leads an international group of 15 actors through a journey of exploration of their own voices and several tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses in the English version by Ted Hughes. It is the first step of the process that eventually led to a theatre production (Metamorphoses - 7 Tales From Ovid, to be presented to the islanders). An island that is an active volcano, Stromboli offers an inspiring set for this kind of exploration: the actors' voices and the stories from Ovidio resonate in an environment of fire, water, wind, black sand and rocks. It is a constantly changing landscape evoking the continual metamorphosis of its elements.
The actors and their voices change in response to the stimuli that come from the island, the Linklater technique, and the images of the 7 stories. And all of that under the eyes of the theatre director who absorbs, digests, and will give a communicative shape to what has been stirred up.
Thus the theme of the film is metamorphosis; on the other hand isn't that what an actor does for a job? Through metamorphosis, transformation…
CRITICAL NOTE
“Not a common film, but a radical experience, an artistic hardcore excursion that trespasses a threshold beyond which we are not usually allowed to see… Alessandro Fabrizi, also a theatre director, leads us into the mysteries of a text coming to life, through the workshop by the Scottish voice trainer and text coach, Kristin Linklater, the author of a psychophysical method, which revolutionized, over the past 40 years, art and vocal and gestural technique. It's a kind of living Lettrism, since its performers are driven to self-produce transformations, to expose to metamorphosis their intelligence, bodies, limbs, postures, gestures, moans, murmurs, impulses, and are strongly incited on matters of identity, self-perception, inhibition, freedom, sociability, affectivity…” (Roberto Silvestri, Il Manifesto)
MAYA SANSA - BIOGRAPHY
Maya Sansa was born in Rome to an Italian mother and an Iranian father. After leaving the high school she moved to England where she was admitted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
During her studies at GSMD in London, she was noticed by Marco Bellocchio who chose her as t