Meeting with the public, Via della Creatività session 5

The resident artists of Via della Creatività in Gorizia Eleonora Cao Pinna, Vincenzo Pandolfi, and Mauro Conciatori meet the public to present the projects they developed during their residency: A documentary exploring Pasolini’s poetics, a claustrophobic thriller about chess, and a horror film reflecting on the world of social media.

The team of creative people who have come to Gorizia to find inspiration and focus in Via Rastello is growing thanks to the PNRR Borghi.

From 28 April to 19 May, the new session of Via della Creatività is dedicated to genre cinema and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

The three authors chosen by the selection committee coordinated by ANAC President Francesco Ranieri Martinotti are from different backgrounds, generations and education.

From London, the writer and director Eleonora Cao Pinna, and from Rome, the screenwriter Vincenzo Pandolfi, dye the walls of the Bottega delle Storie with ‘yellow’, where they will spend three weeks: two thriller stories with horror overtones, ‘HERself’ a story inspired by Julia Ducournau, director of Titane, and ‘Sixty-four’ and a claustrophobic noir based on chess, the oldest and most ruthless game. The project ‘Solo l'amore conta - Pier Paolo Pasolini’ by director Mauro Conciatori is dedicated to the poet from Casarsa.

As usual, guests of the residency will be able to count on the Co-working space located in BorgoCinema, on a logistic support curated by Marco Clemente, on the creative consultancy of Cristian Natoli, and on the interaction with various artistic and cultural realities of the cross-border territory, such as the state archive, the Gorizia Mediateca fund, the Pier Paolo Pasolini Study Centre, the Arci Gong club...

Of particular interest are the professional experiences and projects presented by the guests:
Eleonora Cao Pinna, Roman by birth and based in London, Glasgow and Rome, is a writer, director and visual artist who combines abstraction and realism to create stories with a strong social impact.

Trained in Filmmaking at the University of Westminster and in an intensive workshop at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Eleonora draws on psychological horror, magic realism and neorealist suggestions.

Her residency project, entitled ‘HERself’, tells the supernatural descent of Emanuela Rossi, a young Italian artist emigrated to London, forced by a mysterious user ‘lilitha666’ to physically embody every social character she creates, undergoing disturbing mutations.

Through claustrophobic atmospheres and grotesque sequences, the film explores social media narcissism, socio-economic inequalities and the price of digital authenticity.

‘I hope to find in Gorizia the necessary concentration for the development of the project,’ said Eleonora Vincenzo Pandolfi, born in Terracina in 1971, he graduated in Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on space and time in films based on Edgar Poe's short stories and obtained a diploma in directing and screenwriting at the New York Film Academy in London.

He is the author of the short film Anatomy, awarded ‘Best International Film’ in Houston, and is the author of scripts for feature films in development such as ‘Golden Blood’ and ‘Underneath’, winning numerous awards for horror scripts.

During his residency, he will work on SESSANTAQUATTRO, a psychological thriller in which Francesco, a 50-year-old chess master, finds himself embroiled in a fatal game with the obscure ‘K’ that forces him to put not only the king on the chessboard but also the most unmentionable secrets of his life at stake.

Mauro Conciatori combines his experience as a critic, documentary filmmaker and cultural organiser: he was director of the online magazine ZabriskiePoint (1999-2013), today he is artistic director of L'AltroCinema FilmFestival in San Salvo and curator of Primo Piano sull'Autore in Assisi, after having worked as assistant director for Michelangelo Antonioni and assistant director in the United States in the 1980s.

He signed films on Ilaria Occhini and Elena Cotta (2019), as well as the medium-length film Libertà (2021) and the animated series Le visioni di Tim (2021). In 2022 he edited the docufilm Over the Rainbow, which was awarded Best Director at Ifest, and the short film H2No received a special mention at the Roberto Rossellini Award.

His project-in-residence, ‘Solo l'amore conta - Pier Paolo Pasolini’, explores the life/death axiom through a polyphonic path: Pier Paolo Pasolini's poems dialogue with texts by Bellezza, Merini and Montale, Giovanni Cerri's paintings, sections of contemporary dance and the metaphysical architecture of Casarsa and suburban Rome. Conciatori intends to render an evocative and non-hagiographic portrait of Pasolini, merging cinema, painting, poetry and movement in a single sensorial narration.

Alessio Boni's participation in the project is also confirmed.