Now that virtually everyone under thirty always has a mobile camera with them, democratisation of the image is unstoppable. However it is not yet clear whether this provides more quality, because that always demands talent and craftsmanship. Vedozero is made up of visual material shot with seventy tiny cameras in mobile phones handed out to Italian teenagers. With the inimitable project Video Nation, the BBC did something similar about sixteen years ago by allowing ordinary people using video cameras to maintain video diaries. Vedozero goes a step further and makes it more more massive, lower threshold, cheaper and more volatile. The fragments show the average life of school children in a welfare state. Let the generations themselves fight about whether this is the future of cinema.
Film details
Productieland
Italy
Jaar
2015
Festivaleditie
IFFR 2010
Lengte
93'
Medium/Formaat
Betacam Digi
Taal
Italian
Première status
International premiere
Director
Andrea Caccia
Producer
Massimo Schiavon
Cinematography
Massimo Schiavon
Production design
Massimo Schiavon
Production company
Roadmovie, ROADMOVIE SRL
Sales / World rights holder
Roadmovie, ROADMOVIE SRL
Principal cast
Students of three high school in the city of Palermo