French-based gross sales company Lightdox has acquired the worldwide rights to characteristic documentary “The Mechanics of Things” by Italian director Alessandra Celesia, forward of its worldwide premiere Saturday on the Torino Film Festival. The movie had its world premiere at Les Etats généraux du Film Documentaire in Lussas this August. The unique trailer is proven beneath.
The movie’s place to begin is a horrible accident: Tito, a stray cat adopted by Celesia, falls from the eighth flooring, and is paralyzed. The filmmaker herself is combating invisible scars. Together, they embark on a journey to China, trying to find regeneration, each psychological and bodily.
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After her cat was paralyzed, Celesia got down to discover a solution to heal him. Meeting a French affiliation of paralyzed individuals engaged on spinal wire regeneration, she launched into a journey to China for a scientific trial. The scientific discovery and medical trial patented by the affiliation turns into far more than that for her. It is a metaphor reflecting again to her childhood, to a father who suffers from profound disappointment, who she longs to “fix”. In making an attempt to know her father’s melancholic state, she defines despair as “paralysis of the soul.”
She deviates from easy reportage about spinal wire surgical procedures and strikes towards that “gentle madness tinged with the humor needed to speak of destiny, healing and hope in universal terms and without heaviness,” she says in her notes on the movie.
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Celesia describes it as a “contemporary fable.” She provides: “It’s a story of healing, which is ultimately uncertain, since one’s inner wounds are never really healed.”
As nicely as documenting her cat’s dramatic story, she consists of footage from home films – Super 8 and mini DV movies – that present glimpses of her childhood in a bid to show “an older wound.” They are complemented by different Super 8 extracts which are reconstructed particularly for the movie. In the identical format, they characteristic an 8-year-old Celesia and her father, performed by actors, to create “a dreamlike mise-en-scène.” She additionally filmed an EMDR session, a way developed to deal with the deep traumas of conflict survivors, along with her therapist that took her again to a street accident that, she says, “one day turned my life upside down.”
Bojana Maric, head of gross sales and acquisitions at Lightdox, stated: “A showcase of exceptional creative vision and sensitivity, ‘The Mechanics of Things’ is a whirlwind cinematic adventure with multiple layers but ultimately a simple story at heart that is universal: a daughter wishing to heal her father and working on healing herself.”
The movie is produced by Jean-Laurent Csinidis of Marseille-based Films de Force Majeure and co-produced with Dirk Manthey of Hamburg-based Dirk Manthey Film.
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