tevere (52 min.) video, colour, 2008. Direction :
Catia Ott, Image : Pino Di Giambattista, Editing : Guillaume Maurice, Sound :
Julien Broyer. Trailer
The documentary is a boat trip – or an attempt at
a boat trip – down the Tiber from the outskirts of Rome down to the old sea
port.
Tevere is narrated by a visitor to Rome,
returning to the city after a long absence and wanting to see it from a
different perspective to the one he thinks he knows too well, and seeks
out the little-travelled river route, attempting to see the city with fresh
eyes. Often his journey is frustrated: boats fail to materialise, or landing
stages no longer exist, and sections of the water are inaccessible. But he
persists, and in his journey we trace both the present city of Rome and its innumerable
pasts, layer by layer as the flow of time is echoed by the flow of the river. The
documentary has been screened at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
List of Screenings:
-Screening during the multimedia exhibition “RIVER (S)” at the Photomonth East London International Photography Festival 2011
-Selection at the 2010 DocMiami International Film Festival, May 2010
-Bartlett Urban Film Society, University College London, May 2010
-Screening at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, October 2009
-El Capitan Film Award 2009 (Best Documentary), Yosemite Film Festival, October 2009
-Selection at the Environmental Film Festival Washington DC, March 2009