In Venice, beyond gondolas, canals where tourists come and locals go, there is a parallel world where teenagers pimp up their motorboats, customizing them with dazzling LED lights and powerful stereo systems, turning their barchini into tokens of coolness and virility. Two of these boys will risk their lives in one psychedelic race, chased by police toward the heart of Venice. The decline that erodes the relationships, environment, and habits of a rootless generation unfolds against the backdrop of timeless Venetian landscape, in a film that began without a screenplay and developed over four years of quiet observation by a master of contemporary documentary.
Atlantide
Atlantide
62nd TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Yuri Ancarani
- Script: Yuri Ancarani
- Cinematography: Yuri Ancarani, Mauro Chiarello
- Editing: Yuri Ancarani
- Sound: Mirco Mencacci
- Music: Sick Luke, Lorenzo Senni, Francesco Fantini
- Actors: Daniele Barison, Maila Dabalà, Bianka Berényi, Alberto Tedesco
- Production: Dugong Films, Rai Cinema, Luxbox, Unbranded Pictures, Alebrije Producciones, Mirfilm
- Producers: Marco Alessi, Marta Tagliava, Fiorella Moretti, Hedi Zardi, Dmitry Saltykovsky, Rafael Minasbekyan
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Italy, France, USA, Qatar
- Production Year: 2021
- Duration: 105'
- Contact: Luxbox
Yuri Ancarani
Yuri Ancarani (Ravenna, 1972), is an Italian video artist. His works, which combine elements of documentary cinema and contemporary art, aim to explore aspects that go unnoticed in everyday life. His way of focusing and using the camera with meticulous precision creates his distinct aesthetics, marked by the sculptural depth of the shots and of video works that investigate the hidden elements of daily life and of social codes. His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions and museums in Italy and abroad, including the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), MAXXI (Rome), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), and the Guggenheim Museum (New York). In 2016 his feature film The Challenge won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Festival.
Filmography
2010 Il Capo (short)
2011 Piattaforma Luna (short)
2012 Da Vinci (short)
2013 Ricordi per Moderni (doc)
2014 Séance (short)
2016 The Challenge (doc)
2017 Whipping Zombie (short)
2018 San Vittore (short)
2021 Atlantide
