Faberfilm

BIBIONE BYE BYE ONE
un film di Alessandro Rossetto
Italy/Germany, 1999
b/w, 35mm
75’

Bibione, the Adriatic Sea, 100 kilometres north of Venice. A black-and-white journey between characters and situations, in full unprecedented emersion. Again astraddle harsh realities and real absurdities, the movie camera seems to move in a world of its own that may be anywhere or nowhere, recording a memory that is being created during the summers that follow one another like interchangeable wedges that are ideally never-ending. Time and space blend together, becoming both bonding agent and setting. The passing of time is blocked for one day, the flow of summer allows itself to be grasped and reveals a wise and disquieting humanity that is both comical and bitter at the same time.

“Each frame is a legacy within the history of cinema. The ballad we are invited to recalls the great cinema of the past: Rossellini, Antonioni, Fellini but even the heritage of Jacques Tati and the photography of Robert Frank. A mysterious ballad, both beautiful and painful, more bitter than sweet”(Jean Perret)

A production by Alessandro Rossetto in collaboration with ZDF Arte