Treviso, September 2011. Fabrica, the creative lab of the Benetton Group, announces the participation of its recent production, Deragliamenti, in the official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, as part of the Short Cuts Canada Programme.

 

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. During her time at Fabrica Chelsea McMullan also made the documentary Chaîne, a series of portraits which explore the experiences of African immigrants in Europe, inspired by the writing of author Saïdou Bokoum, and Not to Be, a short documentary investigating the concept of life, death and personal identity. Through the interpretation of a scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet a group of very young would-be actors are faced with the theme of death.

 

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

 

SHOWINGS:

12 September 2011 at 8 p.m.

13 September 2011 at 5 p.m.

 

Jackman Hall

Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West -Toronto

 

For further details please contact:

Loredana Rigato

Fabrica Press Office

+39-0422-516340

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/sccprogramme4