LA CUPOLA
Creative Documentary by Volker Sattel
D 2016 | 40 min | DCP | 5.1 | Italian with English / German subtitles
World Premiere: Berlinale Forum Expanded 2016
Director of photography: Volker Sattel
Steadycam / 2nd camera: Thilo Schmidt
Sound: Filipp Forberg, Tim Elzer
Research: Francesca Bertin
Editors: Stefanie Gaus, Volker Sattel
Sounddesign: Tim Elzer
Grading / Mastering: Till Beckmann
Sound Mix: Jochen Jezussek
Tuned by Kirberg Motors / Caroline Kirberg
Funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn
Synopsis
The portrait of a house without supporting walls. A bold dome made of concrete, an open space – right in the middle of the bizarre rock formations of a rugged coast made of reddish granite. In the late 1960s actress Monica Vitti and director Michelangelo Antonioni commissioned architect Dante Bini to design their secret holiday home in a remote area of Sardinia.
The emptiness of the “cupola” and the deserted quality of the site are the starting point for speculating – seemingly at random, gures wind up in the image and enter the dome, and even today, the utopia of an alternative concept of living seems to oat above its form.
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photos © Volker Sattel 2016