Luciano Lischi, editore, un film di Daniele Segre - Ellipsis

LISETTA CARMI, A SOUL ON THE ROADItaly, 2010, HDV, 54'Movie subject, editing, directing: Daniele SegreCinematography: Franco RobustMusic: Maria Teresa SoldaniDirect sound: Edgar IacolennaAssistant director and editor: Maria Teresa SoldaniProduction: I Cammelli S.a.s.Distribution: I Cammelli S.a.s.Daniele Segre and photographer Lisetta Carmi first met in Ravenna in January 2009 for a monographicexhibition on the photographer, who is originally from Genova. Some months later Lisetta wrote a letter toDaniele and invited him to Cisternino, in Puglia, where she has been living for the last forty years. Shewanted to tell him the story of her life. On that occasion, Lisetta took out of her archives all her photos, toldthe film director about them and, after many years, she played the piano again, her first great passion.Lisetta had an incredible life. She was born on February 15, 1924in Via Sturla 15 in Genova in a middle-class Jewish family. Shestarted studying music when she was very young and she becamea promising piano player. Later, she quit playing the piano and shedevoted herself to photography, the other great passion of her life.As in a great novel of the XX century, stories and painful andextraordinary events took place amidst new choices and a newcondition of awareness. Memories of a world disappeared after thewar, of the racial laws and of when she fled to Switzerland bringingwith her Bach’s “Well-tempered Clavier” sheet music. Then hermemories of Genova in the 1960’s: the intellectuals and the artistswith whom she started her career as a photographer, thetransvestites, the harbour workers, eroticism and authoritarianism in the monumental cemetery in Staglieno,her travels to document the world, the striking photographic encounter with Ezra Pound. Finally, her deepmystical encounter with Babaji and the building of the Ashram in Cisternino, the first Ashram of this kind builtin the Western world, for which she abandoned photography for good. The background and the subjects ofher life’s events are Genova, Israel, Sicily, Sardinia, Paris, Venezuela, Mexico, England, Ireland, Greece,Afghanistan, India and the region ofPuglia. Lisetta Carmi is one of the mostimportant photographers in Italian andinternational history.Her photos, her vision of the world andher passionate work, her alternativeapproach to mainstream trends in thesociety of the 1960’s and the 1970’shave left a mark in the world of art thatis still visible today. Her pictures of EzraPound were awarded the Niépce Prizeand, as many others of her pictures,they were published and exhibited allover the world. Lisetta Carmi is “a soulon the road” in the endless search for truth in people’s life and in the world around her..« It has been very important for me to meet Lisetta Carmi. I did not know her personally; I liked her workvery much, especially the photos of transvestites and of Ezra Pound. I met her on the 17th of January 2009in Ravenna, in occasion of the opening of an exhibition on her work. That’s when I first felt the desire tomake a documentary about her. After many months, Lisetta wrote me a letter. She had listened to aninterview I had given on the radio and she invited me to Cisternino. So I went.I needed to take this journey. Not only was it necessary to portray a great photographer’s work, but also todepict the compassion of a person who has chosen to consecrate her many lives to others, bravelycommitting to this task. » Daniele Segre© I Cammelli S.a.s. – www.danielesegre.itVia Cantalupo 11, 10141 – TorinoP.IVA 03871000018Tel. (+39) 011/56 95 620 Fax. (+39) 011/56 95 619icammelli.torino@gmail.com

BIOFILMOGRAPHY - Daniele Segredirector - professor - producerwww.danielesegre.iticammelli.torino@gmail.comphone (+39) 0115695620fax (+39) 0115695619cell (+39) 3402252624Stadium) (Mazzotta, Milan).Daniele Segre (Alessandria, Italy 1952)is a director of « cinema of reality », offiction films and of theatre plays.He started in Turin as a realityphotographer. Since the middle 1970’she has been making films and videos.Perché Droga (Why Drugs) 1976, Ilpotere dev’essere bianconero (Power toJuventus football team), 1978 arefocused on the real problems of needyyouth. Vite di ballatoio (Life on thebalcony), 1984, shows the dignity andhumanity of lives of great hardships. In1980 he published the photographicbook Ragazzi di stadio (Youth from theIn 1981 Segre founded « I Cammelli » film production company and in 1983 he wrote and directedhis first feature-length film, Testadura (Stubborn), which was presented at the Venice Film Festivalthat year. This fiction is about the small world of a young man, a micro-reality made up of stubbornchoices, of a tiring daily life and of difficult relationships. In his second feature-length film,Manila Paloma Blanca, 1992, Segre looked into the existence of an outcast actor, interpreted byCarlo Colnaghi. To make this film Segre used some of the footage from his video with the sameactor, Tempo di riposo (Resting Time).Daniele Segre directed many documentaries: Dynamite (1994), about Sulcis coal miners, Comeprima, più di prima, t’amerò (Like before, more than before I will love you) (1995) about peopleaffected by AIDS-HIV, A proposito di sentimenti (About feelings), (1999), about the love life ofyoung people affected by Down’s Syndrome, Asuba de su serbatoiu (On the Tank), (2001), aboutthe about the closing of a factory in Sardinia; Tempo Vero (Real Time), (2001), about theproblems of people affected by Alzheimer and their families. In 1995 he also began his career as adirector of theatre plays with Week end by Annibale Ruccello.Other films such as Non ti scordar di me (Forget-me-not), (1995) and Pareven Furmighi (LikeAnts), (1997), focus on cinematographic imagery and the charm of the set, the latter narrates thereconstruction of a real movie-house and the reconstruction of a reality made possible by cinema.In 2002, he wrote and directed the feature length film Vecchie (Old Women), with Maria GraziaGrassini and Barbara Valmorin. This film later became a theatre play, Vecchie- vacanze al mare(Old Women-holidays at the seaside), produced by the Associazione Teatrale Pistoiese- Teatro delTempo Presente. It was performed at the Piccolo Eliseo Theatre in Rome in January, 2003, and waslater performed in other Italian theatres until 2006.From 2002 to 2005, he was co-director at the Bellaria Film Festival with Antonio Costa eMorando Morandini.

In 2003, Segre directed a series of six documentaries (Volti- Viaggio nel futuro d’Italia – Faces- Ajourney into Italian future), produced and shown on national public television (RAI3) sinceJanuary 2004. In June, 2004, Segre made his fourth feature length film Mitraglia e il Verme(Mitraglia and the Worm), with Antonello Fassari and Stefano Corsi. In 2006 this film received theAward Qualità by the Ministry of Culture.In 2005 he directed in HD a video on the Turin CRT Foundation’s Modern and Contemporary Artcollection. Within this project, implemented in 2006, three videos were made. The first on the CRTFoundation’s collection, the second on the Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum and the third onthe Turin Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery.With the students attending the Teatro Stabile School Daniele Segre made the video installationTappati la bocca (Shut your mouth) at the Cavallerizza theatre in Turin in 2006 and the filmDimmi la verità (Tell me the truth) in 2008.During the same year, in collaboration with IRRE Marche (the Regional Institute for EducationalResearch of the Marche Region) and the Macerata Training and Labour Department, Segre ran thevideo workshop L’amorosa visione (A lovely vision). The workshop was addressed to high schooland university students in Recanati and in Macerata and aimed at the production of a film. The filmL'amorosa visione – percorsi giovani di incontro e di abbandono (A lovely vision-young stories ofencounters and abandon) was released at the end of the workshop in march 2007. Soon after thefilm, the book Un’amorosa visione – il cinema della realtà fatto da ragazze e ragazzi (A lovelyvision- cinema of reality made by young boys and girls) by Angela Gregoriani was published.In December 2006 in Porto, Portugal, Segre directed the documentary Conversazione a Porto(Conversation in Porto) about film director Manoel de Oliveira and writer Agustina Bessa Luis.He also directed the video of the theatre play Dossier Ifigenia, by Elie Malka, produced by theTurin Teatro Stabile Foundation and played at Astra Theatre in Turin in November 2007.In June 2007 he started shooting the documentary film Morire di lavoro (Dying of work) aboutaccidents in the building sector in Italy. The film was produced by I Cammelli, in collaboration withFILLEA CGIL and the support of Piedmont Doc Film Fund. In February 2008 the film waspremiered at the Italian Chamber of Deputees in Rome and in March 2008 at the EuropeanParliament in Strasbourg. Morire di lavoro has been screened all around Italy and abroad (France,Germany, Canada, etc.).His most recent documentaries are Lisetta Carmi, un’anima in cammino (Lisetta Carmi - A soulon the road) on the photographer Lisetta Carmi, Je m'appelle Morando. Alfabeto Morandini (Myname is Morando. Morandini alphabeth) on the film critic Morando Morandini, and LucianoLischi, editore (Luciano Lischi, the publisher) on the Nistri Lischi publisher Luciano Lischi.* Je m’appelle Morando. Alfabeto Morandini (2010)* Lisetta Carmi, un’anima in cammino (2010)* Luciano Lischi, editore (2010)* Morire di lavoro (2008)* Dimmi la verità (2008)* L'Amorosa Visione (laboratorio) (2007)* Tappati la bocca (videoinstallazione) (2006)* Il Progetto Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Fondazione CRT (2006)* Un bagno al mare (radiodramma) (2006)* Conversazione a Porto (2005/2006)* Futuro presente (2005/2006)

* Mitraglia e il verme (lungometraggio) (2004)* Vestiti di vita (laboratorio) (2004)* Vecchie (lungometraggio) (2002)* Volti, viaggio nel futuro d'Italia (2002)* Tempo vero (2001)* Asuba de su serbatoiu (sul serbatoio) (2000/2001)* Monda Mondo (2000)* Via due Macelli, Italia - Sinistra senza Unità (lungometraggio) (2000)* Protagonisti, I Diritti del '900 (2000)* A proposito di sentimenti (1999)* Sinagoghe, ebrei del Piemonte (1999)* E pensare che eri piccola (film di montaggio) (1998)* Appuntamento con la pace – il nulla che diventa qualcuno (1998)* Sto lavorando? (1998)* ADI - La medicina del futuro (1998)* Non ti scordar di me (1997)* Parèven furmighi (1997)* Sei minuti all'alba (1996)* Quella certa età (1996)* Diritto di cittadinanza (1996)* Un solo grido lavoro (1996)* Come prima, più di prima, t'amerò (1995)* Dinamite (Nuraxi Figus, Italia) (1994)* Crotone, Italia (1993)* Manila Paloma Blanca (lungometraggio) (1992)* Nord e Sud, ricchezza e povertà in Italia (1992)* Tempo di riposo (1991)* Partitura per volti e voci, viaggio tra i delegati CGIL (1991)* Ospedalizzazione a domicilio (1991)* Cose da matti (1990)* Occhi che videro (1989)* Non c'era una volta (1989)* Sarabanda Finale (1988)* Notte Rock (magazine tv) (1988)* Dall'Italia con amore: Frank Sinatra (1987)* Dall'Italia con amore: Liza Minnelli (1987)* Giaglione la festa della nostra terra (1986)* Andata e ritorno (1985)* Una serata in casa (1985)* T'as compris le truc? (1985)* Vite di Ballatoio (1984)* Cinzia (1984)* Testadura (lungometraggio) (1983)* Tac Cucu, Torino si diverte (1983)* Ritratto di un piccolo spacciatore (1982)* Torino cronaca: Francesca, Anna e Paolo (quinto quadro) (1982)* Torino cronaca: matrimonio di Anna e Giuseppe (sesto quadro) (1982)* Rock (1981)* Marco Cipollino, pugile (1981)* Torino cronaca, quattro quadri (1981)* Tempo di Vacanze (1981)* Ragazzi di stadio (1980)

* Carnevale in quartiere (1980)* Tempo di Vacanze (1980)* Torino, Mercati Generali (1980)* Il ciocco è relativo (1980)* Il potere dev'essere bianconero (1978)* Perché droga (1976)