Presented in Competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, Below the Clouds is a documentary by director Gianfranco Rosi, winner of the Golden Lion, Golden Bear, EFA Award, and Oscar nominee.
Between the Gulf of Naples and Mount Vesuvius, the earth sometimes trembles and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields punctuate the air. Tracing history, the memories of the subsoil, a lesser-known Naples populated with lives is framed in monochrome. Below the clouds lies a land traversed by residents, devotees, tourists, archaeologists excavating the past, and by those who seek to give life and meaning to statues, fragments, and ruins, in museums. The circumvesuviana trains cross the landscape, carriage horses train on the shore. A street teacher dedicates his time to after-school activities for children and adolescents, firefighters conquer residents' small and large fears, and law enforcement pursue tomb raiders. A Syrian ship unloads Ukrainian wheat in the port of Torre Annunziata. The land around the Gulf is an immense time machine.
"I filmed and lived for three years on the edge of Vesuvius – says Gianfranco Rosi – searching for traces of history, the excavation of time, the remains of everyday life. I collect stories in the voices of those who speak, I scrutinize the clouds, the smoke of the Phlegraean Fields. When I film, I embrace the surprise of an encounter, of a place, the evolution of a situation. The challenge of the story is to follow the frame while the stories come to life. The timing of the film is dependent on the trust engendered in that encounter. I shot in black and white; I looked in black and white. While filming, between the sea, the sky, and Vesuvius, I discovered a new archive of truth and possibility."
Photography and sound by Gianfranco Rosi, story by Gianfranco Rosi with the collaboration of Carmelo Marabello and Marie-Pierre Müller, editing by Fabrizio Federico with the consultancy of Joe Bini, and music by Daniel Blumberg.
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Presented in Competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, Below the Clouds is a documentary by director Gianfranco Rosi, winner of the Golden Lion, Golden Bear, EFA Award, and Oscar nominee.
Between the Gulf of Naples and Mount Vesuvius, the earth sometimes trembles and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields punctuate the air. Tracing history, the memories of the subsoil, a lesser-known Naples populated with lives is framed in monochrome. Below the clouds lies a land traversed by residents, devotees, tourists, archaeologists excavating the past, and by those who seek to give life and meaning to statues, fragments, and ruins, in museums. The circumvesuviana trains cross the landscape, carriage horses train on the shore. A street teacher dedicates his time to after-school activities for children and adolescents, firefighters conquer residents' small and large fears, and law enforcement pursue tomb raiders. A Syrian ship unloads Ukrainian wheat in the port of Torre Annunziata. The land around the Gulf is an immense time machine.
"I filmed and lived for three years on the edge of Vesuvius – says Gianfranco Rosi – searching for traces of history, the excavation of time, the remains of everyday life. I collect stories in the voices of those who speak, I scrutinize the clouds, the smoke of the Phlegraean Fields. When I film, I embrace the surprise of an encounter, of a place, the evolution of a situation. The challenge of the story is to follow the frame while the stories come to life. The timing of the film is dependent on the trust engendered in that encounter. I shot in black and white; I looked in black and white. While filming, between the sea, the sky, and Vesuvius, I discovered a new archive of truth and possibility."
Photography and sound by Gianfranco Rosi, story by Gianfranco Rosi with the collaboration of Carmelo Marabello and Marie-Pierre Müller, editing by Fabrizio Federico with the consultancy of Joe Bini, and music by Daniel Blumberg.
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The earth sometimes trembles between the Gulf of Naples and Mount Vesuvius and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields punctuate the air. Tracing history, the memories of the subsoil, a lesser-known Naples is populated with lives is framed in monochrome. Below the clouds lies a land traversed by residents, devotees, tourists, archaeologists excavating the past, and by those who seek to give life and meaning to statues, fragments, and ruins, in museums. The circumvesuviana trains cross the landscape, carriage horses train on the shore. A street teacher dedicates his time to after-school activities for children and adolescents, firefighters conquer residents' small and large fears, and law enforcement pursue tomb raiders. A Syrian ship unloads Ukrainian wheat in the port of Torre Annunziata. The land around the Gulf is an immense time machine.
