A Tammurra

Le tambour

Switzerland, April 2012
FILM, Documentary, 7 min.

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directed by
Lorenzo Di Ciaccia
Written by
Lorenzo Di Ciaccia
Status
In distribution

Music of wind and rustling of weeds announce the cymbals which in turn call the voice. A percussion of instruments marks the rhythm and the beginning of the song. This black and white film shows us and makes us listen to a performance by Antonio Accurso, his tammurra and his dancers, singing an old Neapolitan popular song. It transports us to a place of memory, an old pavilion in ruins in a Roman park. Song and dancers seem to be spirits of the past who, for a few moments, give back life to these abandoned places, tortured by change of culture and oblivion.

La musica del vento e il fruscio dell’erba annunciano i cimbali che a loro volta richiamano la voce. Una tammurra segna il ritmo e l’inizio del canto. Questo film in bianco e nero ci fa vedere e sentire Antonio Accurso in un antico canto napoletano legato alla cultura popolare. Siamo trasportati in un luogo della memoria, un padiglione in rovina in un parco a Roma. Il canto e la coppia di danzatori sembrano essere spiriti del passato che fanno rivivere, per qualque tempo, questi luoghi abbandonati, martoriati dal cambiamento di cultura, dall’oblio.

credits

World Premiere
April 2012
Original Version
Italian,  b/w, HD Cam, 7 min.
Production
Haute école d'art et de design - Genève (HEAD – Genève) Département Cinéma
Producer
directed by
Lorenzo Di Ciaccia
Written by
Lorenzo Di Ciaccia
Cinemato­graphy
Cristiano de Vincenzi, Lorenzo Di Ciaccia
Editing
Lorenzo Di Ciaccia
Sound Editing
Lorenzo Di Ciaccia
Re-Recording Mix
Adrien Kessler
Music
Antonio Accurso
Location Sound Mix
Luigi Porto

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