Terramatta ( Terramatta: Il Novecento italiano di Vincenzo Rabito analfabeta siciliano ) ( Terramatta: The Italian Twentieth Century of Vincenzo Rabito Sicilian illiterate )

Terramatta (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Terramatta: Il Novecento italiano di Vincenzo Rabito analfabeta siciliano
Alternate Title: Terramatta: The Italian Twentieth Century of Vincenzo Rabito Sicilian illiterate
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
76 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Costanza Quatriglio

Written By:
Costanza Quatriglio

Actors:
Costanza Quatriglio

Synopsis:

In Terramatta, Quatriglio continues her inquiry into invisible subjects and uses the story of an 'invisibile' (as she defines Rabito) to rewrite the history of Italy, not as a historian but as a filmmaker, self-reflexively drawing attention to the history and style of Italian cinema itself. In our discussion of Terramatta;, we analyse Quatriglio's juxtaposition and intersection of the archival footage of official history with Rabito's personal accounts conjured on the screen through the voice of the actor Roberto Nobile, and her filmed images of contemporary landscapes inhabited by Rabito's words. We consider the ways in which the documentary creates a dialogue between public and private history, between the present and the past and between memory and language.

The film is centered around narration of excerpts from Vincenzo Rabito's memoir, Terra Matta. Rabito begins with his background in Sicily. He was born in 1899, and at a young age, he was pulled out of school to earn a wage for his family after the death of his father. As a teenager, he was drafted to fight in World War I. In some excerpts, he relates some of the atrocities he committed during the war, including assisting a friend in sexually torturing a young Italian woman. Following the war, Rabito worked in German mines until the beginning of World War II. At the insistence of his mother, Rabito took a wife, with whom he had three children. The children are shown as fully grown men in present-day Italy, visiting their father's childhood home and relating their own memories of some events Rabito wrote about. Despite remaining distanced from his wife, Rabito took great pride in his children, particularly because they were all fully educated and literate. Rabito did not learn to write until he was an adult; the spelling in his memoir is largely based on phonetic transliterations of Sicilian language. Although Rabito is telling his own story, he is scarcely shown in the film. Instead, his narration generally underscores footage of war, images of Sicilian villages and countrysides, and images of his journals.

Terramatta: The Italian Twentieth Century of Vincenzo Rabito Sicilian illiterate is a 2012 documentary directed by Costanza Quatriglio, based on the memoir Terra Matta by Vincenzo Rabito.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 November, 2015.

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