Un mito antropológico televisivo / An Anthropological Television Myth

Year2011 Duration56 min. DirectorMaria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli, Alessandro Gagliardo WriterMaria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli, Alessandro Gagliardo PhotographyFabio Costanzo, Roberto Maravigna EditorDomenico Liggeri, Ezio Costanzo, Salvo Salomone, Luca Mirone

Coproduction: Ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum
Sponsorship: MMAV (museo mediterraneo di antropologia viva)
Audio postproduction: Riccardo Nicolosi

Festivals

2011 Torino Film Festival
2012 Viennale
2012 “Prix George de Beauregard” Fid Marseille
2012 Jihlava Film Festival
2012 DocLisboa
2012 Valdivia Film Festival
2012 Award RTP2 for best Research film Doc Lisboa
2012 Entre Vues, Festival du Film de Belfort, Francia
2012 Sulmona cinema Film festival

Spanish premiere

The stories on TV have penetrated so deep in the fabric of society that they actually build a part of history of a Nation outlining its character and problems, describing its deepest nature. The camera gathered fragments of daily life and now gives it back after years, still able to recount our society, inviting us to make a sort of anthropological study on the culture of television. “Un mito antropologico televisivo is an excuse to introduce television anthropology into the culture debate, reading the history of a country and its people through the archives of hundreds of private TV stations scattered throughout Italy. Otherwise this material would end up disappearing permanently”.

Maria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli, Alessandro Gagliardo

Maria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli and Alessandro Gagliardo collaborate with Malastrada.film. A company based on research starting from the idea of discovering, to create, gather, conserv and share thoughts and visual expressions using cinema to develop analysis and deliver new economical, political and cultural overtures.