Essentiality, nature, beauty, the difficult balance between man and nature. Arsa is about 18 years old: she is beautiful, closed and wild. It collects the waste beached on its island, nature reserve. He lives in the mourning of his father, an artist forced to create statues “beautiful per fake”, bending to the needs of consumerism. She creates small sculptures in her laboratory-Silos with the finds of archaeoplasty it collects on the coast. One day he lands on the island Andrea and upsets his world.
After the success at the “Arsa” Rome Film Festival, New feature film by Masbedo, the artistic duo Nicolò Massazza-Iacopo Bedogni, arrives in theaters. “I am very happy to present in Syracuse, my hometown, the film” Arsa “, produced by my production company Eolo Film Productions in collaboration with Alcion and Rai Cinema, and distributed in theaters by Fandango – explains Beatrice Bordone Bulgari -. It is a project that is particularly close to my heart; shot in Stromboli, he captures the essence of a wild and fascinating place. I remember when the island was without electricity as a girl, and the silence of the starry nights, the sound of the cicadas and the rustle of the wind among the reeds were magic. These suggestions are reflected in the film, thanks to the extraordinary vision of the Masbedo, who have visited the island for 20 years and have been able to perfectly embody the soul. Arsa, the young debutant gala zohar Martinucci, is a bold female figure, who detaches himself from social conventions. The narrative explores his inner journey, the challenges he faces, highlighting the determination to affirm himself ».
Arsa is an independent girl, who feeds herself since she was a child of the strength of her imagination. His fragile and strong figure is in tune with the natural power of the island. “Stromboli is an island of cinema and those who have shot him in the most obvious parts, instead we shot in the wildest part, of the great reeds – explains Nicolò Massazza -. AND The volcano is not seen in our film. We wanted to give an idea of the nature reserve that reflected the Mediterranean and was not Stromboli. There is no shot on the volcano. “
Wild as the protagonist …
«Exactly, in all terms, emotionally, existentially, and the protagonist is like that nature. Its same colors, the color of the eyes, the color of the skin. There is loneliness, silences, body, physicality, in a very solipsistic situation, therefore Gala was exceptionally good ».
An eighteen year old who has no relationship with technology and lives on imagination, of creativity: is it an almost surreal thing today?
«In pre -future I hope not. In America there are clear signs of boys who leave their cell phone, they find themselves around the bookstores, they meet when they have to meet. So I would say that it is a possible scenario that this world at a certain point implodes. She is an other form of communication, she is an island in the middle of the current: if she wants to dialogue, meet someone, she has to face a different time, much slower, an emotional time, the time of things that enter. I hope that there will be a future in the new generations where there will be a radical cut. Thus she is, a Emily Dickinson without mobile phone. A pre-future dimension. The artists usually anticipate, said Freud, so we hope … ».
Is Arsa the environment around it?
«Arsa is an existentially environmentalist character: he does not do so by political or action spirit. It does so because it existentially recognizes that it is necessary to start from the waste: find these plastic materials that the world delivers and does something to us. That’s why it does not need to desire a new object, as it is typical of all these generations, but on the contrary it uses it, it does something, it builds through imagination, that is, it basically defends itself from the violence of this world “.
The script is by the Italian writer Giorgio Vasta in collaboration with Masbedo. In the cast Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Lino Musella, Tommaso Ragno, Giovanni Cannata, Luca Chikovani, Michele Sinisi, Maziar Firouzi, Matilde Lift.