The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio

A film account of the creation of the famous Piazza Vittorio Orchestra, the documentary combines music, interviews, a sense of solidarity and the human comedy. Created at the instigation of Mario Tronco, a film score composer and pianist with the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel and the collective Apollo 11, this musical group has its roots in a working-class district of Rome where the Italians are “an ethnic minority”. Shot over a five-year period, from the irth of the orchestra to its recent successes, the film brings together thirty street and professional musicians of various nationalities (some of them llegal), five cameramen, and three sound engineers. The film highlights and echoes aspects of contemporary Italy, representative of a varied sociological and cultural mix. The result is an extraordinary alliance of sounds, harmony and life stories.

Born in 1971, he studied at the Faculty of Arts, Music and Performance at Bologna University, then joined Ermanno Olmi’s group Ipotesi Cinema. He next worked as an editorial coordinator for various television and radio stations for the Italian community abroad, before becoming an assistant director to Silvano Agosti and Nico Cirasola. In 1993, he directed Poco Più della Metà di Zero, his first short film, followed by Opinioni di un Pirla, in 1994. In collaboration with the director Giovanni Piperno, he made the documentaries Intervista a Mia Madre (1999) and Il Film di Mario (1999-2001), then founded the Apollo 11 group who ran a cinema of the same name which became a hub for Roman culture. In 2003 and 2005 he made the docu-music videos Gli Avion Travel in seduta di registrazione and L`alluvione del`43 di Pino.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA