TWO HEADED MOUNTAIN

short, 2022

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The dualism shown in the film is one of the great contradictions of this historical period. The differences in the various countries’ political choices create paradoxical situations in which everything reveals its opposite. The worldview we have built for ourselves can radically and quickly be reversed, profoundly changing the way we understand everything surrounding us. On the one hand there is an inhabited, populated, domesticated landscape; on the other, there is the void, which has allowed nature to reclaim possession of its spaces. The same objects a few steps away appear entirely different. Balances change and the sense of reality changes.

Synopsis

The Matterhorn is among the highest mountains in the Alps. It overlooks Breuil-Cervinia village in Italy and Zermatt in Switzerland, two well-known tourist destinations. The cities, divided by the mountains, have always been connected by winter sports enthusiasts and professionals. In 2020, the Covid19 pandemic broke the balance. In Switzerland, the new rules of access to the facilities have not prevented people from experiencing the mountains. In Italy, the total closure has annulled tourism, causing a loss of about 7 million euros, according to Cervino Spa. A new paradoxical normalcy, symbolizing a human condition of inner conflict, which in times of difficulty shows itself more clearly. In the Swiss part, tourists adapt to new behaviors with daily habits. In the Italian part, instead, deprived of the human element, the pylons, the Christmas lights, and the ski lifts become natural objects; snowcats, iron giants lost in time, working for months for no one, with a wandering melancholy.

Exposure

70° Trento Film Festival Trento, Italy.
25° Cinemambiente Torino, Italy.
Festival del Cinema Europeo Lecce, Italy.
25° Cervino CineMountain Aosta, Italy.
Mountain International Swiss Mountain Film Festival Lugano, Switzerland
Nuovi Mondi Film Festival Cuneo, Italy.
Sestriere Film Festival Sestriere, Italy.
Verona Mountain Film Festival Verona, Italy.
17° OFF Orobie Film Fesival Lombardia, Italy.
IDFA Market

Distribuito in sala da TFF365
Pubblicato su National Geographic International

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Credits

Regia, direzione della fotografia, suono
Jacopo Marzi
Fotografo e co-direzione della fotografia
Davide Bertuccio
In collaborazione con
National Geographic
Produzione
Aquarela Studio
Sound Design
Lorenzo Sattin
Operatore drone
Lapo Pecchioli
Colorist & Visual Effects
Gino Liegi
Produzione National Geographic
Maura Friedman
Cervino SPA Team Head
Daniele Herin
Zermatt Bergbahnen SA Team Head
Mathias Imoberdorf
Assistente di produzione
Annalaura Cattelan