Kind of Blue
2013
Kind of Blue, Lui e Lei (Him and Her) and Un uomo solo (A Man Alone) are three short videos available both for projection and installation.
Director Cecilia Bertoni creates video portraits exploring herself and the performers of the two first parts of the Trilogia dell’Assenza
(Trilogy of Absence) as people without a role, as if they were nothing else but themselves. These short films, premièred on 18 May 2013, were created for the performance Kind of Blue.
Kind of Blue 
VIDEOINSTALLATION
2013
by Cecilia Bertoni
music, sounds and noises Carl G. Beukman
texts Cecilia Bertoni, Serge Cartellier and Mauro Carulli
assistant director Alice Mollica
camera Mauro Carulli, BAM
editing Mauro Carulli, Cecilia Bertoni
technical director Paolo Morelli
duration 24’46” - format 4:3 - 2013
available in Italian or in English
Tre donne in cucina (Three Women in the Kitchen)
Cecilia Bertoni, Claire Guerrier, Mees
Tre Uomini Diroccati (Three Crumpled Men)
Marco di Campli San Vito, Piero Leccese, Luigi Petrolini
Due Donne (Two Women)
Marialucia Carones, Serena Gatti
Lui e Lei (Him & Her)
Cecilia Bertoni, Serge Cartellier
Un uomo solo (A Man Alone)
Carl G. Beukman
Narrator Mauro Carulli (Italian version), David Geysen (English version)
Kind of Blue_video
In the video Kind of Blue the director, Cecilia Bertoni, creates portraits exploring her fellow performers as people without a role, merely themselves. In a circular narrative structure, five stories follow one another, linked by an intimacy that displays itself through environment, objects and the everyday clothes of these same performers. The director explores their physical and mental obsessions and their relationship to creative act. The bathrooms of their own homes, of a hotel or a dilapidated building, become the places in which their secrets, their acts of madness and their disappointments become explicit, while a kitchen becomes the nerve centre of the creation, but also the prelude and the epilogue of an endless wait. A voice off-stage, which the viewer assumes is the narrator, is only seemingly arbitrarily connected.
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Lui e Lei (Him and Her)
by Cecilia Bertoni
music, sound and noises Carl G. Beukman
text Cecilia Bertoni and Serge Cartellier
with Cecilia Bertoni and Serge Cartellier
assistant director Alice Mollica
camera Mauro Carulli
additional camera IPOD Cecilia Bertoni, Serge Cartellier
editing Mauro Carulli and Cecilia Bertoni
technical direction Paolo Morelli
duration 6’45” - format 4:3- 2013
available in Italian or in English
Lui e Lei
In the video Un uomo solo (A Man Alone) the director Cecilia Bertoni creates a portrait of musician and long-time colleague Carl G. Beukman, investigating his physical and mental obsessions and their relationship to creative act. The eye of the camera follows him from an increasingly close-up angle and from above. In the isolated and claustrophobic space of his bathroom, immersed in a bath and surrounded by objects that increasingly reassure him, the action unfolds into a shamanic ritual. Cloaked in his own solitude, he conducts a silent and invisibile orchestra. He will emerge transformed.
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