productions

  Mauritania, the ancient libraries in the desert (watch the trailer and more)

 

Credits: Devised and directed by Rossella Piccino | Camera: Luca Pivetti | Sound: Fabio Dorio | Editing: Rossella Piccinno | Voice-over recording : Tommaso del Signore | Translation and english voice-over: Maggie Armstrong, Nikolas Gray | Production: DakhlaVision | r.t.: 54’20” | Italy 2006

Log line: Time is running out for historic manuscripts kept in libraries in once-thriving cities of Mauritania, precious documents imperilled by voracious termites and the inexorable advance of the Sahara.    

 

Occhi negli occhi – recollections of a journey (watch the video)

Credits: devised and directed by Rossella Piccino | Camera: Luca Pivetti | Sound: Fabio Dorio | Editing: Rossella Piccinno | Voice-over : Rossella Piccinno | Voice over recoding: Tommaso del Signore | Production: DakhlaVision | r.t.: 08’15” | Italy 2007

Synopsis: The golden sun setting between the soft dunes of the Sahara is the starting point of “Eyes in the Eyes– recollections of a journey”, a personal and deeply felt account in which the author reveals to the viewer a page of her intimate diary.  “Occhi negli Occhi” (Eyes in the Eyes) invites the spectator to open his eyes and share what the author sees of another world, Africa.  It is a meeting of the eyes between those who are there to look and those who return the gaze.

Voices of Native and migrants Women (watch the video)

Credits: devised and directed by Rossella Piccino | Camera: Rossella Piccinno| Sound: Roberto Buttignol| Editing: Rossella Piccinno | Production: DakhlaVision and variemani | r.t.: 14’03” | Italy 2007

 

Log line:  This video, addresses the themes of the difficulties faced by immigrants living in the Salento, particularly focussing on the working conditions experienced by women and the problems related to legal residential status.   

  

 

To my Darlyng (watch the video and more) Credits: Subject: Nicolas Gray, Maggie Armstrong | Directed by Rossella Piccinno and Tommaso del Signore | Camera: Rossella Piccinno and Tommaso del Signore | Cast: Marco Olimpio | Editing: Rossella Piccinno | Sound design and Music editing: Tommaso del Signore| Production: DakhlaVision and variemani | r.t.: 23’26” | Italy 2008

Log Line: Flemish sculptor Norman Mommens and his companion, writer and jeweller Patience Gray, moved to the Basso Salento, Finibus Terrae, in 1970.  They lived in an ancient masseria without electricity, running water or phone, dedicating themselves to an almost monastic regime of creative work and agricultural labour.  Every year Norman devoted the month of October to producing a hand-made book to give to Patience for her birthday, Halloween.  These treasures almost no-one ever saw.  They were her secret, stored in the bottom of a large wooden chest.  In To My Darling Marco-the-Mime reveals a selection of these unique gifts.