Calm and chalk - Travelling with Mario Dondero

original title:

Calma e gesso - In viaggio con Mario Dondero

directed by:

production:

Sol Si Fa audiovisivi, in collaboration with Max Man Coop., Dream Film e Ila Palma Edizioni, Fototeca di Fermo - Archivio Mario Dondero, with the support of Marche Film Commission

country:

Italy

year:

2015

film run:

130'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (05/07/2016)

Images of towns, places, women and men, stories of partisans, incredible, true stories wind on. So do also pictures in black and white and colour slides. Roads and landscapes roll. We are on trip with one of the greatest masters in world photojournalism and this documentary aims to tell the adventurous life of Mario Dondero, photorepoter, through his present always on the go.
A path throughout 5 years spent at the photographer's side, following his researches, his exhibitions, openings, conferences, prize-givings, various events and simple walks. A journey through thoughts and actions from which it emerges a cross-section of the national and global chronicle experienced in first person and at the forefront by the fifthies till today. The discretion of our photojournalist and his total extraneousness towards the sensationalism of the paparazzi shines through those lucid and profoundly narrative releases. There is no rethorics in his attitude, but only love, irony, indignation, exposure and research of the truth.
In Fermo, where he lives, in Milan, in Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Naples, Florence, we find ourselves hanged together and curious around the infinite facts immortalized by our protagonist. Each time it seems like being inside the world archive.
From Corrado Stajano to Ermanno Rea, fro Gianni Berengo Gardin to Uliano Lucas, from Vinicio Capossela to Don Andrea Gallo, in this doc many will try to tell what he is, moved by deep esteem and friendship, even if Mario is, as usual, unseizable, and he is already shooting at a new destination with his Leica on his shoulder, because he knows too well that there will always be a future next, not to be forgotten.