Danilo Correale - Diranno che li ho uccisi io
The film is the result of an in-depth investigation on Italian cinema from the 1950s to the 1980s that for various reasons had been kept in archives as a screenplay, or in the minds of directors as an idea, without being developed into a film due to censorship.
Through the birth of the Republic in 1946 and the political hegemony of the Christian Democracy party, Italian cinema has been penalized by a sort of sporadic castration. It happened for political, religious, moral, traditional and often economical reasons, forcing unquestionably prestigious authors to alter style and content choices not to break the 1962 law on censorship that, though with changes and corrections, is still effective to this day.
"They will say I killed them" is a film that tries to recreate fragments of this forgotten cinema, in an immersive game of lights, shadows, and camera work. All the different screenplays emerged from the research and texts that nourished Correale’s desire and investigation feature themes and taboos such as European colonialism, feminism, armed fight, resistance, class difference, and religion, as well as different film styles, which inspired the making of this film.
This film connects six screenplays both in terms of ideas and in a purely evocative way, but also six film genres and six under-represented topics, from the fall of Fascism to the birth of Italian private television.
“In the period of time before the production, mixed feelings were arising, moments of euphoria and dejection that could only become meaningful thanks to an act of resistance against a political present that was becoming less and less habitable. Hence, the necessity of building a counter-narrative for a big little story: not only that of cinema and its contribution to Italian mass culture, from post-fascism to 1984, but also that of a collective cultural history which urgently needs to be undone and rewritten”, writes Danilo Correale in his director’s notes accompanying the book.
Danilo Correale’s work has become part of the public collection at MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto) and in 2019 it will be presented at the exhibition space at MAC Museum in Belfast, partner of the project.
A special screening of the film is going to be presented at Magazzino Italian Art, in Cold Spring - New York, on 17 November 2018.
They will say I killed them was produced by the artist after winning the inaugural Italian Council (2017), a grant competition conceived by the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripherals (DGAAP) of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities to promote Italian contemporary art around the world. As part of the award, the film will become part of the collection of MART - Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.
"They will say I killed them" is also the title of the artist's book published by Nero Edizioni (Rome) due out in September 2019.
BIOGRAPHY
Danilo Correale is an Italian artist and researcher living and working in New York. His work focuses on analyzing aspects of human life such as labor, leisure, and sleep in late capitalism. His projects employs a wide range of visual and collaborative strategies emphasizing kinship between time and body associated with present-time maladies such as fatigue, lethargy, boredom, and stillness.
Correale’s iconic research on Sleep, Free Time, and refusal of work represents an ever-expanding source for new artworks and special projects, therefore the body of work evolves and often adapts to specific commissions and interactions within the audience.
Danilo Correale received his MFA in Visual art and Curatorial Studies from NABA, Milano, IT, and has been awarded by a Research Affiliate Fellowship at Columbia University NY in 2017. He has been part of Skowhegan, school of painting and sculpture among many other residency and grant program in EU and USA.
His Work has been published by NERO publications (Rome), Archive Books (Berlin), FEC (Italy) and Decelerationist Reader (US).
SYNOPSIS
Weaving together six never-realized screenplays across six genres of cinema, "They will say I killed them" follows a reclusive archivist Ernesto Mahieux as he navigates an atemporal bureaucratic space and encounters a cascade of topics that have been underrepresented in the history of Italian cinema. Through an immersive interplay of lights, shadows, and camera movements, the audience is led through fragments of untold stories panning from a film about Italian Colonialism, to a thriller about the history of an Italian terrorist group (BR), to a romantic play about the life of Simone Weil.
TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
Diranno che li ho uccisi io
2018
Written and directed by Danilo Correale
Original soundtrack: Diego Buongiorno
Voice-over: Beatrice Catanzaro, Emanuele Aleotti, Francesco Venturi
Project/script: Danilo Correale
Con Ernesto Mahieux nel ruolo di Archivista, Claudio Morganti nel ruolo di Carmelo Bene, Daniele Balicco nel ruolo di se stesso, Marta Bianchi, Aurora Morelli, Ando, Clara Crescini, Francesco Napoli
Editing and postproduction: Aniello Giordano
DOP and Camera: Roberto Beani
Second Camera: Massimo Mahieux
Gaffer and lights: Simone Tacconelli
Boom operato: Francesco Amodeo
Grip: Cristian Manini, Filippo Negrello
Sound editing and Mixing: Nicola Itro
Set Designer: studio GISTO (Alessandro Mason, Matteo Giustozzi)
Research: Danilo Correale, Vasco Forconi
Script consultant: Massimo Zordan
Script Supervisor: Vasco Forconi
Set photographer: Mauro Baldacci
Service: Moovie
Recording studios: SAE Institute Milano, Show Biz
Production: Careof
Curator and head of production: Martina Angelotti
Coordination and technical service: Marta Bianchi
Logistics and set up: Lia Manzella
Organization and cast: Aurora Morelli
Logistics assistant: Maria Peschiera
Co-production: MAC Museo d’arte contemporanea di Belfast
Acquisizione in collezione: MART - Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento Rovereto
Il film ha tratto ispirazione da sceneggiature e racconti di autori
quali Dario Argento, Carmelo Bene, Claudio Caligari, Liliana Cavani,
J.P Sartre - Sergio Spina e Augusto Tretti.
