Cento anni fa: 1912: Programma 8: Due canti per due cortometraggi
Saturday, 30 July 2012, Piazza Maggiore (Bologna, Il Cinema Ritrovato). E-subtitles in Italian and English.
The Catalogue: "Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso have been working since the 1970s on the traditional repertory of their homeland Sicily, which seized their imagination while in England looking for work. The music and traditional instruments used by the Mancuso brothers will create a bridge between Sicily and England as the duo provides a backdrop of sound to films showing nature in its most powerful form: from Eruzione dell’Etna shot in 1910 to Mare del Nord filmed along the English coast the year before."
Enzo e Lorenzo Mancuso: “We imagined the bellows of the harmonium as a continuous breath, the surf of a tide of sound crashing with the voices of another time, sounds like submerged volcanic islands that appear and disappear following an alternation suggested by the images seen. The bows and chords of the baglama, the minute voice of the sipsy, the beat of the drum and sansula flow together in a unison of extreme latitudes, underlining in each one the value and testimony of human expression.”
AA: Two powerful movies about the forces of nature: a volcanic eruption and a storm at the North Sea. The music of the Mancuso brothers was fascinating and different from the others.
L’ERUZIONE DELL’ETNA / L'Eruption de l'Etna. IT 1910. PC: Società Anonima Ambrosio. 35 mm. 118 m. 7’ at 16 fps. Col. French intertitles. Da CNC – Archives Françaises du Film. Musiche eseguite dal vivo. Strumenti: voci, armonium, saz baglama, saz divan, violino, sipsy, campana tubolare, tamburo, sansula. - AA: Red tinting is effective in this actuality film about the volcanic power and the lava movement of the Etna.
NORTH SEA FISHERIES AND RESCUE / [the title on the film is in German]. GB 1909. D: Joseph Rosenthal. Mare del Nord: pesca e salvataggio. PC: Rosie Film Company. 35 mm. 210 m 10’. a 18 fps. Tinting. German intertitles. From: BFI National Archive. Musiche eseguite dal vivo. Strumenti: voci, armonium, saz baglama, saz divan, violino, sipsy, campana tubolare, tamburo, sansula. - AA: A magnificent non-fiction film about a storm in the North Sea. "Nordsee Mordsee" is an impressive intertitle in this German-titled version. Among the dramatic sequences there is a rescue of sailors from ship to land with a windlass via a very long rope. The visual look of the print is slightly duped but still good, and with very beautiful toning.
Saturday, 30 July 2012, Piazza Maggiore (Bologna, Il Cinema Ritrovato). E-subtitles in Italian and English.
The Catalogue: "Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso have been working since the 1970s on the traditional repertory of their homeland Sicily, which seized their imagination while in England looking for work. The music and traditional instruments used by the Mancuso brothers will create a bridge between Sicily and England as the duo provides a backdrop of sound to films showing nature in its most powerful form: from Eruzione dell’Etna shot in 1910 to Mare del Nord filmed along the English coast the year before."
Enzo e Lorenzo Mancuso: “We imagined the bellows of the harmonium as a continuous breath, the surf of a tide of sound crashing with the voices of another time, sounds like submerged volcanic islands that appear and disappear following an alternation suggested by the images seen. The bows and chords of the baglama, the minute voice of the sipsy, the beat of the drum and sansula flow together in a unison of extreme latitudes, underlining in each one the value and testimony of human expression.”
AA: Two powerful movies about the forces of nature: a volcanic eruption and a storm at the North Sea. The music of the Mancuso brothers was fascinating and different from the others.
L’ERUZIONE DELL’ETNA / L'Eruption de l'Etna. IT 1910. PC: Società Anonima Ambrosio. 35 mm. 118 m. 7’ at 16 fps. Col. French intertitles. Da CNC – Archives Françaises du Film. Musiche eseguite dal vivo. Strumenti: voci, armonium, saz baglama, saz divan, violino, sipsy, campana tubolare, tamburo, sansula. - AA: Red tinting is effective in this actuality film about the volcanic power and the lava movement of the Etna.
NORTH SEA FISHERIES AND RESCUE / [the title on the film is in German]. GB 1909. D: Joseph Rosenthal. Mare del Nord: pesca e salvataggio. PC: Rosie Film Company. 35 mm. 210 m 10’. a 18 fps. Tinting. German intertitles. From: BFI National Archive. Musiche eseguite dal vivo. Strumenti: voci, armonium, saz baglama, saz divan, violino, sipsy, campana tubolare, tamburo, sansula. - AA: A magnificent non-fiction film about a storm in the North Sea. "Nordsee Mordsee" is an impressive intertitle in this German-titled version. Among the dramatic sequences there is a rescue of sailors from ship to land with a windlass via a very long rope. The visual look of the print is slightly duped but still good, and with very beautiful toning.
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