Movies: Mauro Santini

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The voices, faces and bodies of the students of the Liceo Artistico Mengaroni in Pesaro embody the characters of two novels by Cesare Pavese, La bella estate and Il diavolo in collina. Seventy years later, the "beautiful summers" of Ginia and Guido, ...

Soft steps mark the snow. They follow a blackbird, then find the sea. The third walk gets lost in an echo of childhood games....

Lungomare Adriatico was born following a request by the Mostra del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro to create a new theme song for the festival; the initial intention was then amplified into seven 43-second theme songs, one for each day of the festival. The pr...

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I have always looked for evidence of a lived time in a shaky shot or in unusable queues, or in the temporal dilation of a fragment. With Notturno this research continues within the image, penetrating it, running the pleasant risk of getting lost wit...

"Dove Sono Stato" is a film that tells of the sudden disappearance of a man during a trip and of a friend who follows in his footsteps. All footage was filmed in Portugal in 1994; I wrote the text and edited the video in the early months of 2000 foll...

"The one hundred tables of "Il Fatto" are part of a project for animated cinema conceived and designed by Tullio Ghiandoni in 1970. The film was born from Tullio's desire to see his drawings 'animated', the reason for this gift he gave me in 2002 and...

“Did you have any relatives living there?” asks the lady: in a certain way… The fifth walk descends a park, where once was a street and a hairdresser’s shop, at number 24....

A sloping path is the journey of the second walk, led by the far lapping of the waves. Rêverie of voyages of winds and mermaids across the seas, wrecks and landfalls....

'Petite mémoire' tells of a forgotten woman's face and the attempt to shed light on the memory, to restore clear features to what is indistinct, but the closer one gets, the more the face vanishes, taken away by other images ready to reclaim the same...

Behind a dark window, the childhood home, time is rediscovered. A woman runs into the sunny air ... it is a blast, a color, a reflection of water ... By the sea, one encounters people and things lost....

A school bus stops in the street. Behind the steamed up windows, among the children who are watching the rain, Giacomo surprises me with a look I know well, that of the photos of my childhood. In the distance separating us, the rain hides the tears a...

Flòr da Baixa is the story of a journey that starts from Lisbon, touches Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Taranto, and returns to the Portuguese city. It is a film about absence, about something that is missing, always and everywhere: in one's own room as...

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"In the rolls of film shot by Dinz Rialto during his travels he searched for 'real' images, without filters, paradoxically finding them precisely where the act of filming is most evident. Those looks in the camera surprised me, intimidated me, just l...

"Made following the loss of my father, 'Di Ritorno' is a video very dear to me because it is intimately populated with voices, sounds and people who are no longer here. The movement of the train that takes me back to my childhood home, evoked by a sl...

In 'Flòr da Baixa' the past no longer presents itself by overlapping or burning the present, but is part of the image itself, altering and deforming it from within. Thus an old guesthouse with empty windows becomes an echo, a reminder of an image dre...

A day at the seaside, among fish, swimmers, trains and diving in search of something missing...

"It all started with a flea market and "Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire". A night storm and the cat Vadinho did the rest, leading me on the first walk."...