Author: Arianna Di Iorio

Special Mention ‘Work and Human Capital’

WORDS BY by Martyna Glawocka

Biographical note of the authors
Born in 1982 at Szczecin (Poland). Graduated in 2007 in Cultural Studies at the University of Lodz, she specialized in film and media. She has directed three documentaries: ‘Our Place’ (2012), ‘Good Work’ (2013) and ‘Words by’ (2013).

 Synopsis
‘Words by’ is a film that describes a routine day in Tim’s life presented in his Library-Archive. The author follows some readers along the shelves of the library while they are choosing their books, with the aim of looking through their souls on the basis of their criteria of book selections.

JudgementThis film is valuable for the originality of its subject and for the brilliance of the representation of not just a mere place of goods exchange, but rather of a place of human relations exchange. Work is fully rendered as something more precious than a pure form of subsistence for the worker; it becomes moreover a tool for his social enrichment, a tool which facilitates the encounter between the “individual” and the “other”. Human capital is therefore the essential concept underlying the idea of work.

Special Mention ‘Work and Human Capital’

BONVINI, INSCI’ E COMPAGNIA BELA by Matteo Mattana

Biographical note of the author

He has been working for TV productions as video editor since he was 22. Throughout these years he has perfectioned techniques for video and direction while realizing his independent works.

Synopsis

‘Bonvini Inscì e compagnia bela’ (Bonvini Inscì and all the rest) is a short documentary depicting the story of a traditional bookstore and typography, founded in 1902. Luigi Cambieri was its last worker, in a span of time included between the years 1955 and 2011. His father-in-law is the founder of the shop. At the end of his career, he evokes the story of the shop and of his family. His way of describing the techniques of production recalls the ceremonies of a religious practise or of an art which is about to disappear.

Judgement

The main reason for the recognition of this prize depends on the capacity of representing the printer’s trade throughout its diachronic developments, highlighting the phases of its changes through the artisan’s words. The craftsman suggests the idea of a work in which the relation between the man and the machines is not limited to the utilitaristic use of the tools, but on the contrary it evolves into a sort of a spiritual unity of intents, an inextricable tangle of threads which is at the basis of his own life.

Special Mention ‘Togetherness’ (in collaboration with Modena festivalFilosofia)

COWORKING IN PROGRESS by Luciano de Simone, Andrea Lazslo de Simone, Antonio Orria

Biographical note of the authors

Luciano de Simone: video-maker, director, expert in public and territorial communication. He has specialized in new media, visual communication, web, new technologies applied to public communication and cultural, social and territorial promotion;

Andrea Laszlo de Simone: film-maker, musician and composer. He has created sound tracks for films, documentaries and commercial spots. Between 2004 and 2009 he takes part in the production of various movies;

Antonio Orria: graduated in Italian Literature. As an actor, he has played in various works for theater and performances. He has co-directed and produced various musical video clips. He works as a freelance professional for Palmira Production, a Turin-based company which produces videos.

Synopsis

Coworking in progress is a reportage on coworking experiences. Although coworking represents an increasingly diffused form of work methodology, it is basically ignored by the media. Yet it represents a cultural and social revolutionary process, an alternative to traditional ways to the private initiative. The documentary shows how coworking has already become a consolidated form of work.

Judgement

The best reason for the recognition of the prize to this film is attributable to its capacity of showing a way of working which is innovative under a multiplicity of organizational standpoints, making use of a variety of sources in the narration and of a highly appreciable style in the editing process. Coworking, as the name itself suggests, is a way of conceiving work in which the core of the activity is assigned to the relations between people. This film is able to present this upcoming way of working with a global look both to its theoretical as well as to its practical aspects.

IL LEGNO CHE CANTA
by Emilio Corradini, Bianca Chiarot and Nicolò Messori

Curriculum of the authors
Emilio Corradini graduated at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Science of Communications. He collaborated with the web magazine FORMIZINE realising interviews, editing videos and writing articles. He works at the marketing office of Euroscreen company in Modena.
Bianca Chiarot studies philosophy at the University of Bologna. She attends the National Academy of Cinema in Bologna, where she granted the certificate of participation to the course for directors and screenplay writers in 2010.
Also Nicolò Messori studies philosophy at the University of Bologna. He has collaborated with the web magazine “Love & Sound” interviewing many artists.

Summary
The documentary portrays a traditional, antique and little-known job: the lutist. The movie describes the life and the story of an artisan and expresses in a gentle form the passion for an ancient and solitary job.

Judgment
The movie exalts the qualities inherent to the manual work conducted in artisans’ workshops. The passion of the artisan is illustrated with poetry and gentleness, giving a vision of the work founded on exchange and synergy.

SHAPING GODS
by Jurgen Shafleschner

Curriculum of the author
Jurgen Schaflechner is a Phd candidate at the University of Heidelberg. In 2011 he was a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Theology in the University of Harvard. His objects of teaching at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Heidelberg are grounded on the definition of the concepts of syncretism, mixture and purity.

Summary
The documentary evokes the story of a Pakistani sculptor who carves religious statues for temples in his country. At the centre of this short film, a long interview allows spectators to get into the work of the artist plumbing the depth of his life.

Judgment
This work develops around an original subject rendered with a combination of good technique, irony and perspicacity in presenting intercultural comparisons. The artist has developed a twenty-year long experience in handcrafting works of art, autonomously as well as a chief of a team of work assistants.

TERESINA BARBIERE
by Marta Zen

Curriculum of the author
Marta Zen has worked on several documentaries and short films as a video editor. She teaches multimedia and video editing techniques. Her first project as an author as well as a director has been the full-lenght film “Barbers”, which includes as a short story the work “Teresina Barbiere”.

Summary
Teresina is the only woman registered at the Chamber of Commerce as a “barber”. She has learned the job from her step-father and she has been able to emancipate by virtue of this job. The documentary follows the last year of her activity. Teresina is not willing to abandon her clients, but her accountant gave her indications on the necessity to interrupt the job. Teresina is an excellent barber.

Judgment
The main quality of this work is paid by the strength and the truthfulness of the character, together with the dynamism in the shooting and in the editing processes. Spectators can follow the protagonist while she works and speaks with her customers, so to clearly perceive the “colours” of her job. There is a big effort to present the ancient wisdom inherent to old professions and to compare it to the present mentality through the memories of a woman who describes her own experiences with the language typical of a straight story.