Sic@Sic 2016

Notturno

by Fatima Bianchi / Italy 2016 / 15'

Cast and Credits

Original title / Notturno

English title / Nocturne

Director / Fatima Bianchi

Screenplay / Fatima Bianchi

Cinematography / Fatima Bianchi

Editing / Fatima Bianchi

Sound / Fatima Bianchi, Nicola Ratti

Cast / Claudia Consonni, Rosaria Girotti, Giovanna Gossi, Laura Morelli, Carmen La Corte, Elisabetta Sisti, Florinda Trombetta, Filippa Tolaro; in collaboration with the Milan Institute for the Blind

Production / Fatima Bianchi

Format / DCP, color

Runtime / 15 min.

Synopsis

A group of blind women talk and tell stories, showing their own way of seeing through sensory memory, singing and dreams: an imaginary landscape bordering darkness and reconstructed through their voices.

Fatima Bianchi

Fatima BianchiFatima Bianchi was born in 1981. She is a documentary film maker and a video-artist. She lives and works between in Milan and Marseille. From 2006 her work has been shown in many film festival and art galleries among which Visions du Réel, Cinema Vérité Iran, Les rencontres International, Premio Sergio Amidei, la Fondazione Merz of Turin, Casa Testori. With her short Tyndall (30′) she won the Perspective Prize at the 2014 Filmmaker Festival.