GARDENS OF LIGHT

13 min, digital, colour, 2009

by Lucia e Davide Pepe

Made in the ambit of the Progetto Memoria/Memory Project promoted by the Apulia Film Commission, the film by the Pepes describes, using cinematic instruments, sometimes experimental, designed to render the freshness of the glance dreamt by a youth, a perceptive and emotional motion across the popular event of a patron saint festival consisting of illuminations and fireworks, enjoyment and litanies, lights and perfumes. The final of the film, like The evening of the day of festivals, leaves joy suspended in a vanishing nostalgia.

Credits

Soggetto: Lucia Pepe
Fotografia: Luigi Martinucci
Musica: Mirko Lodedo
Montaggio: Davide Pepe
Produzione: Apulia Film Commission
Produzione esecutiva: Sattva Films

Festivals

Winner of the special mention of the jury at:
2009 – Padova Videopolis 
2010 – MoliseCinema

Presented at:
2010 – Mambo (Bologna Museum of Modern Art)
2010 – Festival dei Sensi
(looped projection for three days)
2010 – Collective Exhibition “Periferica Attiva”
(looped projection for three weeks)

Selected at:
2010 – the 60th Berlin film festival
2010 – Winterthour short film festival
2010 – Damascus international film festival
2010 – Granada International young filmakers
2010 – Breda international film festival
2010 – Sarajevo international film festival
2010 – Bari international Film Festival
2010 – Bologna Visioni italiane
2009 – Foggia independent film festival