Il gesto delle mani

by Francesco Clerici

Documentario | Italy | 2015 | 16:9 (e 16mm) | 77 min.

Date sunday 12 july

Location Rustico di Villa Draghi - MONTEGROTTO TERME (PD), via E. Fermi

The documentary follows the creating process of a sculpture by artist Velasco Vitali from wax to bronze at the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia in Milan. A team of skilled artisans operates in a hundred-year-old foundry, their work showing an unchanged technique: lost-wax casting.  

Biography/Filmography:

Francesco Clerici (Milan, 1983) has been holding primary and secondary school workshops on film production and didactic since 2003. He is a fim-maker, documentary director and writer. From 2009 he collaborates on artistic projects with Velasco Vitali and the Internazional Art Cinema Federation (CICAE). 

Direction

Francesco Clerici

Story

Francesco Clerici

Script

Francesco Clerici

Photography

Francesco Clerici

Editing

Francesco Clerici

Music

Claudio Gotti

Cast

Andreas Boccone, Nicolae Ciortan, Mario Conti, Luigi Contino, Simion Marius Costel, Ilaria Cuccagna, Lino De Ponti, Tommaso Rossi, Caled Saad, Elia Alunni Tullini, Velasco Vitali

Production

Velasco Vitali, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Francesco Clerici