Telling the territory through cinema — Interview with Francesco D’Amato

For you, the voice of art is the expression of culture, music and creativity. How does this idea emerge in your short film?

D’Amato: Culture has been optional for decadence because we live in a world of cultural decay; therefore, it is strong the need for a rehabilitation of culture because the boys who have also, as to say, interpreted some roles have been involved with the awareness of having finally for a certain period to abandon social, abandon the devices and devote themselves to a form of art. This contemplating the revaluation of culture

This short film that you have filmed is drawn from a noir story in which some boys are looking for new clues to discover the arcane treasure of the Country Blue. Tell us about this short film?

D’Amato: First of all, the choice of the yellow is dictated by my last editorial effort: a yellow novel entitled “Il morte di San Felice”, the yellow is perhaps the only one, certainly, literary genre that can in a certain way keep the boys; how to say to have the attention of the boys in a different way because precisely the only fact of having to find out who is the guilty who is the killer as it goes to finish the story in a certain way is a little more careful here.

What places in the Country Blue you chose for short film and why are they significant?

D’Amato: Casamassima was a great revelation. I didn’t know Casamassima and it was very nice to discover some really very exciting views; so much so that in the film I had to cut some for a timely speech; and that I was very sorry!

But I have discovered some architectural realities also artistic; it is very interesting for which I hope, I say so in a manner like saying disinterested, that as it happens to me, I am also a member of the Fai Association, so I like to follow the initiatives that go to reevaluate our territory and I hope that with the short film there is a flow of tourists that can in a different way approach to the territory because it is actually a way to re-evaluate the territory.

How was working with these guys? What has taught you from the experience of these school children?

D’Amato: Working with the boys was a very special experience. I was not at first prepared to approach the boys today; because I expected disinteresting attitudes, but fortunately they did not happen.

In fact, the boys responded very positively and this, therefore, opens a glimpse of a form of hope over the speech that was made at the beginning of the CULTURE, so that the boys can approach in a different way more mature to the culture because today honestly precisely that I already live with experiences in the past in Cinecittà within the context of the cinematography, now with these last three novels that I have written the editorial speech but not because I live from the writer.

I note a certain disinterest in culture and this sincerely hurts