Fabrica, the creative lab of the Benetton Group, announces the participation of its recent production, Deragliamenti, in the official selection at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, as part of the Short Film Programme, scheduled from Jan 26th to Feb 5th.

 

Deragliamenti tells of Milo Manara’s experience and joint work with Federico Fellini to transform the screenplay of the film Il Viaggio di Mastorna detto Fernet into a comic strip.

 

Originally written by Federico Fellini, Il Viaggio di Mastorna detto Fernet has been defined as “the most famous film never made”. Fellini’s decision to abandon the project just before the start of filming is shrouded in mystery. The most likely explanation is that the film in some way brought him face to face with his own death. It tells in fact of the wandering journey of a cellist in the afterlife and the project was described by Fellini himself as “the story of a man who is dead without knowing it”.

 

At the age of seventy-two Fellini started work with a longstanding friend, one of the world’s best known illustrators, Milo Manara, on a project entitled Il Viaggio, to transform the screenplay of Il Viaggio di Mastorna detto Fernet into a comic strip and in this way exorcise the lack of closure of the film. Ironically Il Viaggio was Fellini’s last work before his death in 1993.

 

Deragliamenti was produced entirely by Fabrica and directed by Chelsea McMullan, a young Canadian resident in the video area who has already produced experimental videos and documentaries.

The short documentary participated in official selection at the 2011 edition of Toronto and Vancouver International Film Festival, while its trailer features at the first anthological exhibition on Milo Manara, set up at the Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, in Siena, open until April 9, 2012.

 

Watch the trailer: http://www.fabrica.it/deragliamenti

 

SHOWINGS:

Saturday, January 28, at 4.00pm

Thursday, February 2, at 7.00pm

 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

1130 State St. , Santa Barbara , CA 93101

 

For further details please contact:

Loredana Rigato

Fabrica Press Office

+39-0422-516340