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Il capo marble quarry. Il capo a short film looking at an italian marble quarry. The filmmaker focuses on a quarry boss who uses hand gestures to guide the excavation to the moment when huge. Italian artist and filmmaker yuri ancarani captures the otherworldly landscape of a marble quarry in the apuan alps northwest italy as il capo the chief guides his men through the extraction process. Ll capo the chief.
In the marble quarries men and machines dig the mountain. The chief manages coordinates and guides quarrymen and heavyduty machines using a language consisting solely of gestures and signs. It has taken nearly a year filming on the monte bettolgi in the carrara region of the apuan alps in northwest italy where the italian director followed a marble quarry boss as he guided his men through the extraction process using a. In the documentary il capo the chief by yuri ancarani the visual is stunning.
Nowness recently shared the breathtaking documentary il capo the chief from filmmaker yuri ancarani. A surprisingly poetic documentary short shot in an italian marble quarry il capo finds the strangeness in the spinning wheels and giraffe like necks of heavy machinery and the grace in the weathered face and nonverbal gestures of the man directing the machines. Directed by yuri ancarani pietro savorelli. Il capo franco barattini at his marble quarry 67th venice film festival yuri ancarani and the town mayor of carrara angelo zubbani il capo film d ouverture festival du cinéma du réel centre pompidou paris france.
Nowness recently delivered a breathtaking excerpt from filmmaker yuri ancarani s documentary il.