Movement

These words close Ceste's latest film, which gave rise to the idea of ​​making Walls and Borders (2009, 290′), a collective film made on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and which involved eighty-three directors.

The Strait of Sicily has become the largest underwater cemetery in the Mediterranean. The most conservative estimates speak of twelve thousand drowned people in the last ten years on the routes between Africa and our southern coasts.

These words close "Movement" the latest film of Armando Ceste made in 2008 and previewed at the Under Eighteen Film Festival of the same year. As the author stated, the film took inspiration from the homonymous poem by Aldo Palazzeschi:

“I want… you go… yes you go…
But don't ask where
they would tell you a lie:
where is unknown.
And it's so beautiful when one goes.
I want… you go… yes you go…
why just go
in a world of the blind
it's happiness."

Armando Ceste has always had the ability to read and understand in advance the many contradictions of the present denouncing them through cinema; in this sense “Movimento” is a very important example with respect to the more than ever current drama ofimmigrationThe film was supported from below, today we would say through crowdfunding, thanks to the contributions of friends and colleagues.

From this film was born the idea of ​​making “Walls and Borders” (2009, 290′) a great collective work twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Thanks to the coordination of Claudio Paletto e Magdalene Merlino eighty-three directors, including Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, Mimmo Calopresti, Giorgio Cugno, Daniele Gaglianone, Davide Ferrario, Mario Balsamo, Luciano D'Onofrio, Gianni Sartorio They tell in seventy short episodes the walls and geographical, physical, mental and social borders that mark the societies in which we live in a kaleidoscope of points of view and expressive approaches, from documentary to fiction, from video art to animation.

The proceeds of the project supported International Help Onlus.