presents
ALLEGRO MODERATO
The Esagramma Symphony Orchestra. Nothing unusual so far. There are many orchestras the world over and many of them are harmonious masterpieces. Esagramma stands out from all the others for one simple reason: the musicians are youths and adults with serious psychological and mental problems and educators that teach them to play and love the cello, the harp, the violin, timpani, and other instruments. Esagramma is a real orchestra, with extraordinary professionals, a special orchestra that the documentary depicts exploring the creases of things not said and musical gestures.
The narrative and stories within the Orchestra intertwine with the atmosphere of Milan, a cold city by definition which in fact is quite welcoming, alive and with few clouds, less than the ones people seem to remember. You just need to know how to look at the city. Just like you need to know how to look at the musicians rehearsing: they apply themselves, make mistakes, laugh, in order to discover that music is true life even for those whose lives did not start on equal conditions as others.
Musicians among musicians, even Stefano Bollani played with the Esagramma Orchestra in a rehearsal full of improvisations and fun, shot and told in the documentary.
A great Italian film actress gives voice to the vision behind the lens: Barbora Bobulova, a sensitive presence that sustains and marks the tempo of the documentary.
Technical CrewDirected by Patrizia SantangeliAssistant Director Raffaella Milazzo Director of Photography Stefano Palombi Editor Cristiana Cerrini Sound Editor and Mix Tiziano Crotti Original Music Antonio Romano Camera Operators Andrea Beer, Ilaria Maruccio, Paolo Ferrari Produced by Kpr&Key - Rome - www.kpr-key.it Duration 78 minutes Produced in 2008 CastBarbora Bobulova NarratorStefano Bollani Musical guest The Esagramma OrchestraDirectors: Licia Sbattella, Marco VolpiMusicians: Maria Aluigi, Matteo Asnaghi, Davide Bagliani, Luca Baldan, Francesco Baldessari, Nicolò Bernardi, Lorenzo Casini, Mercedes Ceccarelli, Giulia Cordaro, Elena Della Rocca, Marta Fededegni, Dafne Forloni, Pinuccia Gelosa, Erika Guidotti, Jane Harris, Valentino Jamin, Andrea Mazzola, Sally Mc Allister, Daniele Mocerino, Fabio Monduzzi, Riccardo Moratti, Tiziana Motta, Massimiliano Pidò, Simone Pagani, Carlo Pensa, Dario Portosa, Lucia Professione, Andrea Quaglia, Paolo Quarantelli, Emma Ramacciotti, Diego Ragazzo, Andrea Ribolzi, Alessandro Robbiati, Riccardo Savini, Marco Sciammarella, Roberto Sticco, Raffaella Verni, Elena Vernocchi, Annalida Viganoni, Barbara von Weiss, Jacopo Wiquel, Tatia Zarate Nicho The following participated in the documentaryFrancesco Ponzi – Musician in the Esagramma Orchestra (first ensemble)Chiara Mauri - Musician in the Esagramma Orchestra (first ensemble) Mariachiara Rabaiotti – Student in the Esagramma Orchestra |
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Blackout. It’s how the beginning of a symphonic performance is announced. It’s what follows the end of a dream. They are two ways of seeing the same thing: one full of energy and the other full of fear. With Allegro moderato I chose to follow the first route in order to narrate a world as difficult as it is rich in creativity and the magic that makes even the toughest things special.
Being behind the camera is a job for people who ask themselves lots of questions, but this time the questions were more numerous than usual: to tell the story of an orchestra where the majority of the musicians are youths and adults with disabilities means facing a complicated project because it demands entering a community with very precise rules unknown to us.
Once work began the small crew of the documentary shot people, situations and atmospheres on the tip of its toes, without disturbing. They had to become invisible like Stefano Pavesi, who shot photos of the orchestra before us, said in an interview. It was a curious statement that helped us get involved without too many worries. The creative errors made by the musicians helped in giving a behind-the-scenes tone to the shooting of stories and people without the need of useless superstructures.
So, very naturally, during editing, Allegro moderato became a documentary about passion lived through music and the stories about people who live in a different world from ours and one where we can learn a lot from.
Patrizia Santangeli currently lives in Rome where she is a creative director at Kpr&Key. It all began from the microphones of a private radio in 1984 when songs like Tears for Fear’s Shout, Paul Young’s Love of the Common People and De Gregori’s La donna cannone filled the airwaves. Then the music changed and her love for written creativity arrived, so much so that in the early ‘90s she became a copywriter and began working freelance in a communications agency.
At the same time, in 1994, her passion for directing led to the creation of various films for business communications. She also directed documentaries for Rai 3: L’isola delle tartarughe and Erano paludi. In 2003 he was a founding member of the creative agency Kpr Comunicazione, now called Kpr&Key.
Allegro moderato was produced by Kpr&Key, a creative agency based in Rome that also produced another documentary by Patrizia Santangeli.
Kpr&Key was founded in Rome in 2003 and offers strategic consulting in communications with particular attention on quality and creativity, characteristics that, from the beginning, made every project unique. The originality and effectiveness of the proposals by the agency brought about collaborations with prestigious partners in a few short years. Clients include, Banca Etica, Italian trade Commission, Doctors without Borders, United Nations – Millennium Campaign, Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, RAI, Sky, Unicef.
The Orchestra depicted in the documentary was created following the experience of Esagramma Social Cooperative (Onlus – Italian Social Organization) in Milan that created a Music Therapy for Orchestras program unique in Europe.
The activities of the cooperative revolve around children, youths and adults with serious psychological and mental disabilities such as autism, cognitive disability, infantile psychosis, adult psychiatric patients, children and teenagers with social and familial disturbances, as well as parents in need.
The Esagramma Symphony Orchestra’s repertoire includes orchestral re-elaborations of works by Stravinskij, Dvorak, Mahler, Gershwin, Bartòk, Musorgkij, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Rimskij-Korsakov and others.
There are currently two existing orchestras at Esagramma and Allegro moderato focuses on the second ensemble created.
Patrizia Santangeli
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