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14.07 - 10.00 Nairi Cinema, Small Hall
14.07 - 18.00 Nairi Cinema, Small Hall
2006, USA, 85 min.

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Documentary Films

Script/Dir.: John Maringouin, Dir. of Phot.: John Maringouin, H.E. Dishman, Edit.: John Maringouin, Molly Lynch, H.E. Dishman, Prod.: John Maringouin, Molly Lynch.

After years of working in Hollywood, and after a twenty-five year absence, filmmaker Maringouin returns as the prodigal son to his Terrytown, Louisiana birth home. He films a most intimate, frank and strange portrait about the complex relationship between the filmmaker’s estranged father, the Dadaist painter Johnny Roe, Jr., and Roe’s self-destrucive common-law wife, Virgie Marie Pennoui. Johnny is a New Orleans legend, known for being a career heroin user, a street-fighting pimp, and an accused murderer. He also once tried to kill his son. A lament for lost time, the film is a dark, engaging hyper-real fable, shot with a Southern Soul, and always on-the-edge.

John Maringouin

Born 1973, New Orleans.
In 1993 he started out as a designer and editor. He has worked for David Lynch and Billy Bob Tornton. As a filmmaker, he is interested in people who live on the seamy side of society. John has directed several feature length films about personal and bizarre subjects. He recently produced and directed Just Another Day in the Homeland, an apocalyptic-themed documentary about the first thirty days of the Iraq war, which premiered at the Rotterdam IFF in 2004.

Filmography
Just Another Day in the Homeland (2004), Running Stumbled (2006).

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Script/Dir.: Marco Bellocchio, Dir. of Phot.: Alberto Marrama, Compos.: Ennio Morricone, Prod. Design.: Gisella Longo, Edit.: Silvano Agosti, Prod.: Enzo Doria.
Cast:. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Stefania Troglio, Jeannie McNeil.

On a rural estate live three brothers, a sister, and their blind, religious mother. Three of the siblings have epilepsy, the fourth and eldest, Augusto does not, and he's about to break away from the family: he's in love with Lucia and planning to move to the city. Augusto's sister Guilia tries to frustrate the lovers, while another brother, Alessandro, hatches a far-reaching plot to free himself of his mother's demands and other family responsibilities, to give Augusto the wherewithal to leave with Lucia, and, perhaps, to pursue incestuous impulses with his sister.

Awards
Silver Ribbon - Best Original Story, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1966; Silver Sail, Locarno IFF, 1965.

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Documentary Films

Script/Dir./ Dir. of Phot./Prod.: Cristobal Vicente, Compos.: Carlos Canales, Toto Alvarez, Sound: Mario Diaz, Rafael Huerta, Cristobal Vicente. Edit.: Cristobal Vicente, Carlos Klein.

This film presnts a record of the last working year of the old prison of Valparaiso, which closed in 1999. It is a homage to the prison and to the values and customs of the men, who have secretly lived within it during its 150 year history.

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