Gabriele Gasparotti/The birth of Zelda

by Carole Dazzi e Romina Ciulli

Interview with the author of the short film presented at the Venice Film Festival.

On September 5th in the occasion of the 76a  Venice International Film Festival, the Venice Production Bridge presented Il Futuro del Corto d’Autore, Autori Fedic di ieri e di oggi, within of which they played the short film La nascita di Zelda by Gabriele Gasparotti.

A man who runs, an incessant escape through fields, grassy expanses, heaps of sand. He runs in the daylight and in the dark of a night as red as blood. He multiplies himself and faces his alter ego, becoming protagonist and at the same time witness of a tormented struggle against himself and the visible and invisible world. From this derives an universe where reality and imagination fatally overlap.  Read more →