"DREAMS" is the fourth short film made during the theatrical training project "Future Scenarios" that Fort Apache Cinema Teatro has been carrying out within the Velletri Prison since 2020 with the support of the Lazio Region, in collaboration with IISS Cesare Battisti - Velletri – Prison Section.
GENRE: Short Film
LANGUAGE: Italian
LOCATION: Italy
DURATION: 12.35 min
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2024
With the actors detained at the Velletri Prison within the Future Scenarios Project, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Lazio Region
Simone Z.
Marco P.
Fabio Bartolomeo P.
Manuel P.
Luca R.
Marco M.
Salvatore M.
Claudio P.
Marco P.
Donatello F.
Marco P.
Roberto I.
Giovanni C.
Alessandro S.
Bruno Roger D.B.
Francesco T.
Daniele T.
and with the extraordinary participation of
Giacomo Grossi
Written and Directed by Giulio Maroncelli
Director of Photography Alessandro Lazzi
Sound and Video Making Simone Spampinato
Soundtrack Mario Donpero Perrone
Color Correction Lorenzo Squarcia
Productor Brano Sergio Sciambra
Theatrical Instructors Giulio Maroncelli, Simone Spampinato, Valentina Esposito, Gabriella Indolfi
Postproduction Simone Spampinato, Jumping Flea S.l.r.
Tutor Instructor Antonino Marrari
Graphics Studiocromato
Artistic Director Valentina Esposito
Communication, Promotion and Social Media Gabriella Indolfi
A production by Fort Apache Cinema Teatro and Jumping Flea, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Lazio Region, in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice - Department of Penitentiary Administration - Velletri Prison, Guarantor of the Rights of Persons Subject to Restrictive Measures of Personal Freedom of Lazio, I.I.S.S. Cesare Battisti of Velletri - Prison Section
DIRECTOR'S NOTES: SOGNI is a short film composed of dreamlike stories, developed in the shared space of the workshop, through impressions and insights into the activity of private and missing desires, inner vision, and the clash between rationality and the unconscious. We live in an unnatural density. We devalue inner images in favor of artificial ones. Fantasy declines if it moves away from desire. According to Jorge Louis Borges, dreams constitute the most complex and ancient of literary genres. The dream is the genesis of narration. Starting from a reflection on the theme of dreams, with the participating actors, a kaleidoscope of visual stories was built, episodes that traverse the fleetingness of time, the nightmare of death, the distance from affections, and the trauma of psychic annihilation.