Screenings
September 03 16:00
DSEGH HOUSE OF CULTURE
A Volatile Tale
Italy, 2017, 44’
in Italian w/ Arm./Eng. subtitles
Original Title: Una Storia Volatile
Director: Carla Vestroni
Cinematographer: Carla Vestroni
Editor: Carla Vestroni
The unexpected birth of young birds frames this daily observation of a bird colony from the window of a flat in Rome. A poetic juxtaposition of human and bird life, which plays out on a minimalist stage of a few slanting rooftops. The footage of urban gulls, taken with a handheld camera and intercut with shots of nuns from the neighbouring monastery, is mixed with poems, excerpts from novels, and classical music. Only now and then – in a reflection in a window or from a seemingly banal conversation – do we learn something about the people behind the camera.
Carla Vestroni ran courses on Italian cinema for specialised Italian schools and for American students at the Gonzaga University in Florence and the British Council in Bologna. She contributed articles and essays to the cinema magazine Cinema Sessanta.
Filmography
The Sorting Game (2007), In the Bench (2008), 1959, The diesel and the first kiss (2009), A Life Away (2010), A Volatile Tale (2017), While talking of the river (2024).