From The Special Need to FEFF 17, here to play, in just 40 seconds, with the iconography of the Far East!
April 3rd 2015 press release
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UDINE – The ability to synthesize information is definitely a talent that can also cross over into virtuosity. And it can as well turn into an extreme sport. Just ask all the filmmakers, from Pang Ho-cheung to Matteo Oleotto, who through the years have taken on a very complicated task: creating Far East Film Festival’s very own trailer. Or you could just go ahead and ask him, Carlo Zoratti, who, from that mission, has just come back a winner!
FEFF 17’s trailer, shot in Amsterdam and produced by Brenninkmeijer & Isaacs with art direction by Marina Rosso, bears his mark. It is the mark of a young Udinese video-maker, well-known for his award-winning first work, The Special Need, who in just 4 words and 40 seconds has summarized the spirit of and the meaning behind this Festival: “the emotional chain reaction”.
A set, a director (watch out for his hat: it is a tribute to the one and only Ozu!), a group of actors: each character represents one distinctive trait of Far Eastern filmmaking and each of their actions determines and effects the other, just like with domino tiles, creating an emotional chain reaction. The wrath of an elegant samurai lady causes the awkward maneuvering of a karateka, whose awkward maneuvering gets in the way of a suicidal attempt (pure Kitano style!) and the suicidal attempt, in the end, blurs into a couple’s love kiss…
«I’ve been attending FEFF, as a spectator, for more than 10 years - says Zoratti - and all the movies have always stricken me for the extreme creativity and the incredible ability to floor the audience. I’d walk in expecting to watch a comedy and I’d end up going out crying. I’d expect to watch a family drama and then I’d find myself clutching the armrests while a dead kid haunted his poor father! So when C.E.C. asked me to work on the trailer, I decided to give tribute to that: an emotional chain reaction. Because that’s how FEFF is: an insane and fun emotional chain that always ends up with a kiss or with confetti falling from the sky…».
Carlo Zoratti, born in 1982, graduated from the University of Torino in Interaction Design. He worked for the Interactive department of Fabrica (Benetton’s communications research center, founded by Oliviero Toscani) and then as a freelancer in Holland, Italy and Germany. He is the director of many video clips, took part in the founding of web tv “Pronti al Peggio” and was the artistic director of Jovanotti’s 2013 tour. He debuted as a filmmaker in 2014 with The Special Need, distributed by Friulian distributor Tucker Film.
Most awaited as always, in Udine, fromApril 23rd to May 2nd, FEFF17 will showcase more than 60 films from the best Asian productions: from smash hit blockbusters to soon-to-be cult movies, passing (as usual) through outsiders worth betting on. Numerous distinctive realities (Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan) under the broad and keen scrutiny of both the organizers, who supervise the quality range without any artistic discrimination, and the audience, who is looking forward to sliding, wandering and getting lost… away from the West.
To watch the new festival trailer, please click here: