Nowness recently delivered a breathtaking excerpt from filmmaker yuri ancarani s documentary il.
Il capo marble quarry.
Il capo franco barattini at his marble quarry 67th venice film festival yuri ancarani and the town mayor of carrara angelo zubbani il capo film d ouverture festival du cinéma du réel centre pompidou paris france.
Directed by yuri ancarani pietro savorelli.
Ll capo the chief.
The chief manages coordinates and guides quarrymen and heavyduty machines using a language consisting solely of gestures and signs.
Conducting his dangerous and sublime orchestra against the backdrop of the sheer slopes and peaks of the apuane.
In the marble quarries men and machines dig the mountain.
The filmmaker focuses on a quarry boss who uses hand gestures to guide the excavation to the moment when huge.
This is a short excerpt from the film ll capo.
It has taken nearly a year filming on the monte bettolgi in the carrara region of the apuan alps in northwest italy where the italian director followed a marble quarry boss as he guided his men through the extraction process using a.
A striking look at marble quarrying in the italian alps https youtu be hc5gyhdrhbu italian artist and filmmaker yuri ancarani captur.
In the documentary il capo the chief by yuri ancarani the visual is stunning.
Il capo a short film looking at an italian marble quarry.
A surprisingly poetic documentary short shot in an italian marble quarry il capo finds the strangeness in the spinning wheels and giraffe like necks of heavy machinery and the grace in the weathered face and nonverbal gestures of the man directing the machines.