IL MONDO A SCATTI

THE WORLD IN SHOTS

cinematography
Paolo Pisanelli
editing
Matteo Gherardini
music
Admir Shkurtaj
Egisto Macchi
sound
Simone Altana

with
Cecilia Mangini
Stéphane Batut
Agnès Varda
Roberto Perpignani
Babak Karimi

producer
Federica Facioni
production
OfficinaVisioni
with Rai Cinema
co-producer
Enrico Bufalini
co-production
Istituto Luce-Cinecittà

with the support of
ISRE Sardegna
Archivio Cinema
del reale
Archivio audiovisivo del
Movimento Operaio e Democratico

contact
Istituto Luce-Cinecittà
www.film.cinecitta.com

italian press office
Lucrezia Viti & Livia Delle Fratte
lucreziaviti@presspress.it
www.presspress.it

The World in Shots is a film that intertwines images from today and yesterday, still photos and moving images alike, through a dialogue between two people musing over things that are visible and invisible in the world. Cecilia, in her 90s yet unstoppable - photographer, documentarian, screenwriter - is filmed by Paolo, photographer, director, and curator of cultural events. Cecilia Mangini, who relies on analog technology, developing and printing her film, decides it's time to venture into digital, which she feels shut out of. Ever since the cave drawings, images have always had a magic power. Photography is also magic, while cinema at times crosses over into witchcraft, enchanting the eye.

IL MONDO A SCATTI 1

The World in Shots

Cecilia Mangini

Main filmography

2013 In viaggio con Cecilia

(doc, directed with Mariangela Barbanente)

1974 La briglia sul collo (doc)

1969 Domani vincerò (doc)

1967 La scelta (doc)

1965 Tommaso (doc)

1964 Essere donne (doc)

1964 Felice Natale (doc)

1962 La canta delle marane (doc)

1962 All'armi siam fascisti!

(doc, directed with Lino Del Fra and Lino Miccichè)

1961 Divino amore (doc)

1960 Stendalì (Suonano ancora) (doc)

1960 Maria e i giorni (doc)

1959 Firenze di Pratolini (doc)

1958 Ignoti alla città (doc)

Paolo Pisanelli

Main filmography

2014 Buongiorno Taranto (doc)

2010 Ju tarramutu (doc)

2009 Un inverno di guerra (doc)

2007 Il teatro e il professore (doc)

2006 Il sibilo lungo della taranta (doc)

2004 Enrico Berlinguer

Conversazioni in Campania (doc)

2002 Tunza tunza

Italian djs electronic productions (doc)

2002 Don Vitaliano (doc)

2001 Roma a.d. 000 - Nel nome dell'orgoglio (doc)

2000 Roma a.d. 999 - Per l'anno del signore (doc)

1998 Il magnifico sette (doc)

1998 Io calcoli infiniti (doc)

1997 Nella prospettiva della chiusura lampo (doc)

Cecilia Mangini and Paolo Pisanelli

2021 Il mondo a scatti (doc)

2021 Grazia Deledda la rivoluzionaria (doc)

2020 Due scatole dimenticate

Un viaggio in Vietnam (doc)

2019 Facce (doc)

"The World in Shots is a documentary, an essay film, an autobiographical film - it can't be pigeonholed as belonging to one film genre, but it is definitely a film that takes as its point of departure thoughts about images, still images, photographs that have stopped time: The World in Shots. What we are calling a world in shots can be contained in a sequence of still images. Click…click…click…each shot has stopped time, the time one click takes, yet still images screened in quick succession magically become images in motion. The shot stops time; men, women, things - everything is trapped inside that rectangular portion of the world." [Cecilia Mangini and Paolo Pisanelli]

Cecilia Mangini (Mola di Bari, 1927 - Rome, 2021) was the first woman to make documentaries in the post-war period. She was a screenwriter, scripting several features films and over forty shorts, some of them made together with her husband, Lino Del Fra. Her camera explored Italy from the late 1950s and up to the early 1970s, often dwelling on southern Italy and specifically Puglia, seeking the rituals of an ancient culture being swept away by the rapid-fire transformations imposed by Italy's economic boom. In 2009, Mangini received the President of the Republic's Medal in Florence. In 2016, she started making short films and documentaries co-directed by Paolo Pisanelli.

Photographer and filmmaker Paolo Pisanelli (Lecce, 1965) has a degree in architecture and another from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. After working as a photo reporter and a set photographer, he started directing documentaries in 1997. His work has received awards at festivals in Italy and abroad. He also teaches and does audiovisual training, and has worked at the University of Teramo, the CSC in L'Aquila and Palermo, the DAMS at the University of the Salento, and the Gian Maria Volontè Film School in Rome. He is the founder and artistic director of the festival Cinema del reale, a showcase of audiovisual works that takes place in the Salento region every year.