Maria's Silence

Maria's Silence

cesare bedogne

cesare bedogne

Italy Greece

Beijing International Short Film Festival 2017
Beijing
China
Chinese Premiere
Official Selection
Italian Institute of Culture, Athens, Greece (2018)
Athens
Greece
Greek Premiere
Photography and Film-Making Retrospective
Concrete Dream Film Festival 2018
Los Angeles
United States
American Premiere
BEST FILM (Philippe Mora Award for Avant-Garde Cinematography))
Rome Independent Prisma Film Awards 2018
Roma
Italy
BEST EDITING
AMIIWorkFest 2018
Vilnius
Lithuania
BEST FEATURE NARRATIVE
One Shot Short Film Festival 2018 (Film Without Limits section), Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art
Yerevan
Armenia
Armenian Premiere
Official Selection
FICCSUR 2018
Valparaìso
Chile
South American Premiere
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE
Norwegian Seagull International Short Film Festival 2018
Haugesund
Norway
European Premiere
OFFICIAL SELECTION
BIDEODROMO BILBAO 2018, International Experimental Film Festival
Bilbao
Spain
Spanish Premiere
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Santorini Film Festival 2018
Santorini
Greece
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Foggia International Film Festival 2018
Foggia
Italy
OFFICIAL SELECTION
69th Montecatini International Short Film Festival
Montecatini
Italy
October 25, 2018
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Siren Film Festival 2018
Vasto
Italy
Amazing Shorts 2018
Madrid
Spain
Nuovo Festival del Cinema di Alghero 2018
Alghero
Italy
Cinemistica Film Festival 2018
Granada
Spain
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival 2018
Istanbul
Turkey
Turkish Premiere
Official Selection
Pollino Film Festival 2018
Pollino
Italy
BEST OF FEST, BEST EDITING, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Virgin Spring Cinefest
Calcutta
India
November 29, 2019
Indian Premiere
14th season BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Aphrodite Film Festival 2019
New York
United States
BEST DIRECTOR EXPERIMENTAL
AVIFF CAnnes Art Film Festival 2019
Cannes
France
French Premiere
Official Selection
European Cinematography Awards 2019
Amsterdam
Netherlands
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Il Varco Short Film Festival 2019
Pescara
Italy
HONORABLE. MENTION FOR EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
Harlem International Film Festival 2019
New York
United States
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Vertigo Film Festival 2020
Milano
Italy
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AWARD
Natura e Sogno
Roma
Italy
November 24, 2019
Berlin Revolution Film Festival 2020
Berlin
Germany
German Premiere
OFFICIAL SELECTION
New Wave Motion Film Festival 2020
Hong Kong
New York Cinematography AWARDS 2021
New York
United States
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
New Vision Film Festival 2019
Amsterdam
Netherlands
OFFICIAL SELECTION
London Greek Film Festival 2019
London
United Kingdom
OGA Videoart Exhibition 2019
Rome
Italy
RAGFF 2020
New York
United States
Official Selection
Deep Focus Film Frestival
Brroklyn (New York)
United States
Honorable Mention
Pure Magic International Film Festival
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Best Experimental Film
Timeless Awards Film Festival
Wroclav
Poland
October 29, 2021
Polish Premiere
Best Time Award

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cesare bedogne
Director
Story for an empty theatre
Maria Frepoli
Key Cast
Story for an empty theatre
cesare bedogne
Writer
Story for an empty theatre
cesare bedogne
Producer

This film is based on documentary material but is not, strictly speaking, a documentary film. Nor it is a work of fiction. The film rather appeared to us like a dream, not a nocturnal dream, but one which unfolded day by day while shooting. A dream shared between the photographer-director and the actress (or, better, the woman portrayed in the feature), which nevertheless seemed to follow its own, enigmatic necessity through which the daily shots joined almost magnetically, interweaving in a pattern of superimposed layers that unceasingly merge and dissolve one in another, in the constant flux, crystallization and reshaping of psychic interior. At a certain point, this dream seems to end but in fact it only opens up to another dream, or hallucination, where the film itself abruptly starts to burn, unleashing new and old visions - fragments of reality - until it is put out by a sudden storm and dissolves in a twilight of sea-waters. In this sense, the film is also a meditation on the elements, Water and Fire, Wind, Earth and Skin, inspired by a Sun-Eye that appeared almost by itself in one of the first shots and took possession of the narration, in the endless flow and unfathomable metamorphosis of all things and beings.

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esare Bedogné is an Italian photographer, film-maker and writer. His first, autobiographical novel and his black and white photographs were at the basis of the film "Story for an empty theatre", which he co-directed in 2016 with the Russian director Alexandr Balagura. He later worked at the short films “Maria’s Silence” and “The Last Step of an Acrobat”. All these films won numerous awards internationally and have been screened in prestigious film festivals such as the Montecatini International Short Film Festival, Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno, "L'Europe Autour de l'Europe" Film Festival (Paris), Harlem International Film Festival (New York), London Greek Film Festival, AMIIWorkFest (Vilnius), Concrete Dream Film Festival ( Los Angeles) and many others.
Further information is available on the artist's web-site:
www.cesarebedogne.com
In July 2021 he finished editing a new short film, entitled “Photographing New York" and inspired by his homonymous poem which will be screened in November 2021 at the 75° Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno, at the 16th L'Europe autour de l'Europe in Paris and at the 6th Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival in Vienna.