Vincenzo Castella
Marina Spada
Italy, 2006, 24’
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Landscapes, urban and natural, investigated pictorially, constitute Castella’s personal journey.
Landscapes, urban and natural, investigated pictorially, constitute Castella’s personal journey.
SYNOPSIS
Castella’s photographic journey began, after studying Anthropology, in the mid-1970s in the South of the United States with research on black music. His interest then focuses on industrial structures, the contamination taking place in cities, the changing landscape.
In 1984 Vincenzo Castella was one of the authors exhibiting in the “Viaggio in Italia” exhibition and his photography, which in those years can be traced back to what was defined as “documentary style”, began to become more intellectual, more sophisticated, very personal. Whether they are interiors of houses or shops, cities and industrial areas, glimpses of archaeological ruins or natural landscapes, his photography is always the result of careful and original observation. The use of large format and low-toned color are his silent, meditative, essential way of framing the world.
One of his narrative lines is the production of images of cities captured from above which outline unusual profiles.
“Photographing doesn’t just mean seeing, it means participating in things”.
CREDITS
Director Marina Spada
Director of photography Valerio Ferrario
Editing and post production Giorgio Neri
Assistant director Federica Bianchi
Producer Renata Soldati
Production assistants Caterina Catalano, Monica Tempestilli
Music Flipper Music
Consultant Denis Curti
Produced by Renata Tardani (Miro Film) for Sitcom
With Vincenzo Castella, Giovanna Calvenzi, Salvatore Porcaro, Anniina Koivu, Diego Locatelli, Pasquale Leccese, Stefano Boeri
