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ANTONIO CELOTTO ITALy
FIELD TRIP
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E-mail: antonio.fandan@alice.it
Intention
Field trip is the story of a journey into the memories
evoked by a place, a confrontation between past and
present that reveals things we couldn’t see otherwise.
Giacomo is a character afraid of radical changes but
soon he has to deal with the reality that if he doesn’t
evolve, things around won’t wait for him. He realizes
why he can’t keep his promise, simply because life
changes things and people; in this case it happened
that he and Alisia went both in different directions.
The movie will be rich of textures, washed out like far
memories, like painted with watercolours, all focused
around Giacomo: since it is a story focused on a char-
acter’s interiority no one element must force the audience
out of the story or away from his point of view:
motivated camera movement, natural cuts, reaction
shots, natural feeling of the light.
The sea is a meditative point for the story, it represents
the edge, the abyss: at the same time it is a space out
of the ordinary reality: it is lived in two different opposite
moments of Giacomo’s life.
Synopsis
Giacomo and Alisia are a couple trying to adopt a child.
They have the chance to obtain it when, by her initiative,
he is accepted for a better position he doesn’t
want, in a private university. Sonie, his ex-girlfriend
and colleague, suggests him to talk to Alisia about the
issue, but Giacomo and Alisia hardly communicate
and he lies to her instead of resigning.
He decides to join the school field trip in order to get
some time to think. The trip is in a place where he has
been with Alisia in the past. Here, his memories will
show him that the woman he is with is not anymore the
one he loved, and that he is holding to the past. He will
spend a nostalgic moment with Sonie.
But Alisia is going forward with the adoption, unaware
of his lie, and he is forced to stop her when she gives
him the good news. Alisia tracks him down to demand
an explanation and they confront each other, reaching
the conclusion that their relationship has arrived
to an end.
PRODUCTION FACTS
Estimated Budget: 41.000 €
Locations needed: social assistant studio
/ the road to the school / the road for the
bus / Giacomo and Alisia’s apartment / the
school / the seaplace
Will need special make up to make Alisia
and Giacomo look 5/6 years older.
The class is composed of 10 young extra’s
who look about 17/19 years old.
“What does it cost
to keep holding
the past instead of
flowing with life? ”
Director Biography
Antonio Celotto was born in Italy and
has lived in Paris for the past four years.
A musician since youth, his passion has
always been writing. He worked as editor
for fashion videos and director of fashion
shows for five years. At the same time, he
kept writing music and lyrics, and studied
literature independently. After a personal
crisis caused by the dissatisfaction of that
lifestyle, he quit his job and moved to London
to start again from scratch. It’s there
that he discovered the magic of cinema.
He then went on to study at the EICAR
film school in Paris, where he directed,
wrote, edited and was the DoP for several
short movies. He is currently working
on Faithless, the thesis project for his 3rd
year of studies.
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