Synopsis
Scordatura: original way of tuning stringed instruments practised in the Renaissance and allowing to create uncommon harmonies. The tension of the modified chords produces unusual sound effects.
Federico, young cellist, goes to visit the a workshop of a French stringed-instrument maker settled in Rome to get back an instrument made from fragments of a damaged violin. When the stringed-instrument maker's assistant offers to fix the chords, Federico opposes it. A dialogue, then begins, revealing the history and the value of this instrument, in resonance with the internal movements which live inside the protagonists. From this painful narrative will be born a music with unexpected tones: a metaphoric scordatura.
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- Screenwriter : Anne-Camille Charliat
- Director of Photography : Andrés Arce Maldonado
- Assistant director : Célia Ballini
- Editors : Andrés Arce Maldonado, Anne-Camille Charliat
- Sound Recordist : Francesco Geraci
- Costume designer : Sandro Ferrone
- Producer : Anne-Camille Charliat
- Voice-over : Federico Guglielmo Grillo
- Production Manager : Martin-Pierre Charliat
- Sound Editor : Luca Cafarelli
- Production Designers : Anne-Camille Charliat, Claude Lebet
- Sound Mixer : Marco De Carolis
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Accidents, Music, Memories
- Production language : Italian, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 16 min 30 seconds
- Visa number : 140.081
- Visa issue date : 20/11/2014
- Production formats : HD 2K
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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