28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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The Sailor
The Sailor
The Sailor
The Sailor

The Sailor

director: Giovanni Giaretta
original title: The Sailor
country: Netherlands, Italy
year: 2017
running time: 9 min.

synopsis

The margins and horizons of a landscape that perhaps never existed. A story told using the invented language of the Na’vi (created for the film Avatar), in which rhythm and tone create the narration. A semantic vision of the absence of what is present – birthplace, home, solid ground – questions the imagination about the unclear boundary between what is dream, what is possible and what is real.

“I guess that the memory of a look is always indefinite and compromised by details.” G. Giaretta

biography

Italian artist Giovanni Giaretta (1983) studied production and design in Venice and today lives in the Netherlands. His audiovisual work, which has been exhibited in Turin, Amsterdam and Santander, Spain, is focused on the anthropology of everyday life and explores the boundaries between the imagination and the impression of reality. The Ji.hlava IDFF previously showed his fi lms An Inaccurate Distance (2015) and A Thing Among Things (2016).

more about film

director: Giovanni Giaretta
producer: Giovanni Giaretta
sound: Emanuele Cicconi
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms