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program information
Director
Tommaso Santambrogio
Production
Rosso Film, Chiotto Production
Producers
Ivan Casagrande Conti, Marco Malfi Chindemi, Tommaso Santambrogio
Executive Producer
Ivan Casagrande Conti
Cuban Executive Producer
Matteo Faccenda, Coralmente Film
Screenwriter
Tommaso Santambrogio
Cinematographer
Lorenzo Casadio Vannucci, Tommaso Santambrogio
Editor
Matteo Faccenda
Sound Design
Tommaso Barbaro
Set Designer
Edel Figueredo
Costume Designer and Make Up
Anisleidys Boza
First Assistant
Director Giselle García Castro
Cast
Lav Díaz, Gustavo Fleita, Mario Limonta, Mayra Mazorra, Armando Omar Pérez Pedroso
Critical text
In this unusual and inspiring film by Italian director Tommaso Santambrogio, the legendary Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz (whose first retrospective FILMADRID showed in 2015) is in Cuba teaching a film course. His guide and confidant is Gustavo, a taxi driver who has lived in Havana all his life. As they drive around the city, they share their visions of art, existence, and their intimate and collective pasts. It is then that the film dynamites its device and reinvents itself, opening itself to a lucid reflection on those wounds of history that are impossible to close, on the traces of colonialism and authoritarianism that remain all too vivid. Through precise compositions in lustrous black and white, Santambrogio captures the nuances of an unfathomable ethical and material darkness in a relentless portrait of the validity - albeit crouched in the shadows - of the eternal structures of power and oppression. Taxibol is the materialisation of an imaginative cinema that resists classification and discovers new narrative paths. A journey from kindness to cruelty, from the present to the bloodstained vestiges that still cloud the mind, in which we hear a speech that will never leave our memory: "Do you know what I will do? I'll shoot him in the head. I'll smash his head out. And I'll eat his brain. I'll eat his brain. That's a ritual that I'll do." JAVIER H. ESTRADA
BIOGRAPHY
Tommaso Santambrogio lived and studied in Milan, Paris, Roma and La Havana and he worked with several international acclaimed directors, like Werner Herzog and Lav Diaz. His last short movies (The Last Scene and The Oceans Are the Real Continents) were both presented at the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia and in many other important Festival all over the world.
11 – 16JUNIO 2023
11 – 16 JUNIO 2024