STORIES OF THE HALF-LIGHT
by Luca Magi
synopsis
In Italian, “dormiveglia” designates that blurred state between wakefulness and sleep, in which it is difficult to distinguish dreams from reality. On the outskirts of an Italian town, homeless people are looked after at a night shelter. Rostoom is a suspended place: between its walls, there is no space, no time. At night, around a fire or beneath weak electric lights, the voices of those who keep watch confide in Luca Magi’s camera, in an exercise of extreme intimacy where words become a form of ghostly reverie specific to “dormiveglia”. A polyphonic chant that gives a rhythm to the waiting of these individuals deprived of a future. Stories of the Half-Light is a profoundly political film which, with militant dignity, looks at those who are habitually represented like skinny silhouettes. Like people without bodies, people without names. Here, these men and women re-appropriate a territory that belongs to them alone: that of dreams.
international title: | Stories of the Half-Light |
original title: | Storie del dormiveglia |
country: | Italy |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Luca Magi |
film run: | 68' |
screenplay: | Luca Magi, Michele Manzolini |
cinematography by: | Luca Magi, Andrea Vaccari |
film editing: | Jaime Palomo Cousido |
music: | Simonluca Laitempergher |
producer: | Claudio Giapponesi |
production: | Kiné |