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docs for sale IDFA 2022

Journey into the Twilight

Viaggio nel crepuscolo
Written, shot, directed and edited by Augusto Contento
Documentary essay
2021
France,Italy
142 min
Italian, French, German, English
Tags
  • animation
  • european culture
  • fascism
  • communism
  • totalitarianism
  • memories
  • culturology
  • artdoc
  • psycodelie
  • chronique
Festivals
  • Romania BUZZ IFF 2022 (Documentary section)

  • Russia Pacific Meridian FF 2022 (Documentary section)

  • The Netherlands Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 (Cinema Regained)

  • Italy Trieste Film Festival 2022 (The Corso Salani Competition) Special Mention of the Jury

  • Italy Venice Film Festival 2021 (Out of competition)World Premiere

Synopsis

Journey into the twilight retraces the roads that lead to the cold darkness of Italy’s decline: of the family, of the patriarchal society, of the school system, of religion. This is a land where the interior of the communal, public, shared space is made out of a colourless, amorphous egoism, where even the revolutionary, socialist, communist ideals mixed with the Manichean Catholicism have transformed into fideistic, totalitarian dogmas. From the opening credits, the animation expresses a combination of places: ghostly, austere, decadent, elegant, and decrepit.

Continuously mixing fiction and documentary, the film structure is able to radically deconstruct narrative forms.

Bellocchio’s films, which the director started from, become poetic verses that, arranged in a particular narrative order, create a new meaning. The same happens with the archival materials, as their use is functional to poetry, and not to the narration anymore.

Journey into the Twilight is based on a “quantum” editing. The director employs multiple writing styles and cinematographic genres, as if they were parallel universes that mirror, multiply and split into each other, determining form, rhythm, and content of the film space-time. The ultimate goal is to talk about the main Italian and international issues from unusual points of view, starting from Bellocchio and going forward, as if travelling on a thin border line towards a universe that wants to give voice to the factory workers and to the farmers, identifying some historic turning points. The ending scene, a horse vanishing on the icy road of a non-place that can be anywhere and nowhere, in a different, utopian universe, is symbolic of the whole film.

Crew
General producer Giancarlo Grande
Producers Ivan Olgiati, Chiara Galloni
Executive producer – France Giancarlo Grande
Executive producer – Italy Alessandro D’Alessandro; Ivan Olgiati e Chiara Galloni – Articolture Adriano Aprà
Production Manager – Italy Rino Sciarretta
Animation Marco Belli
Soundtrack and music Paolo Cantù
Musicians and voices Mark Stewart, Laetitia Sadier, Margareth Kammerer, Jucara Marçal, Thiago Franca
Lyrics Augusto Contento, Mark Stewart
Live sound recording Stefano Agnini; Daniele Cevasco
Sound editing and mix Giovanni Frezza
Archive Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico Fondazione Ansaldo Rai Cinema Viggo Kavak
production by Cineparallax
Cast
Marco Bellocchio
Paola Pitagora
Roberto Herlitzka
Roberto Perpignani
Paolo Mereghetti
Emanuele Severino
Massimo Salvadori
Adriano Prosperi
Gad Lerner
Michele Serra
Gherardo Colombo
Guido Salvini
Giuliano Turone
Valentina Stoppani
Alice Gera
Silvia Costa
Michela Lucenti
Maurizio Camilli
Balletto Civile
Notes from the director

I’m convinced that our rational side is the least authentic one. I believe that our oneiric dimension says much more than appearances and our assumed identity do. Journey into the Twilight investigates the 1960s and 1970s starting from some films by Marco Bellocchio. I use them as an investigative tool with which I dissect the Italian mentality, society, and some key episodes of its history. The artists, intellectuals, and thinkers who are the protagonists of the heart of the documentary never actually appear in person, but only in animated form with a painted animation technique, because the research for beauty, for poetic and historic truth is an adventurous challenge, a mission fit for explorers who do not fear the unknown.

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