Winter Harvest
Alessio Tasca, a Portrait
Riccardo De Cal
Italy, 2010, 40’
Languages: Italian
Subtitles: English
Languages: Italian
Subtitles: English
Discovering the sculptor, ceramist, and designer Alessio Tasca and the old Rivarotta furnace.
SYNOPSIS
Fast hands, accustomed to working, mashing, kneading, knocking. The shots are now deafer, now more accurate sound. It all starts from the material: clay, indeed, the “crea” what’s his name in the Veneto. And like an initiation, the man, the potter, goes first where everything has its origins: the quarries. Mountains of clay. It’s a strange, quiet place where everything is the same color as the moon and looks like a different planet. Who is this old silent, his face framed by white curls in the form of flames, which create the impression of a Hellenistic head? What is his history as a man, potter, and artist? The film attempts a path in his life and the symbolic place to which he devoted enormous effort, in which he has lived a long time: the old Rivarotta furnace.
CREDITS
Director Riccardo De Cal
Photography Pier Paolo Giarolo, Riccardo De Cal, Manuele Cecconello
Editing Riccardo De Cal
Production Cabiria
With Alessio Tasca, Lee Babel
