Synopsis
A journalist and a musician met in Latina in 2005 and decided to create a music broadcast on a local TV.
The program is initially dedicated to the realities of the territory and then moves on to host musicians from all over Italy who will contribute to telling, through interviews and performances, different ways of experiencing art from the second post-war period to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The docu-film is also an opportunity to talk about the evolution of the language of local television, from its birth to the switch-off to digital terrestrial.
The R-S was shot with a smartphone.
Director's notes
When I was presenting, with Maria Corsetti, the television program Gli amici della musica, I found myself working with makeshift means, sometimes without the certainty of being able to record the episodes. But the guests continued to come on the show, they were able to describe the world of music to viewers effectively.
I decide to tell this adventure that lasted 6 years in a documentary. Where to start? From the recovery of old episodes? Certainly, but I think it is important to make the shots with the same freedom, the same imperfections that characterized the television program. At this point it is the proposal of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg that attracts me: the "technological storm" described by Dogma 95 is not over, the smartphone is the ideal camera to carry out the project.
La-R-S was not shot in compliance with the rules proposed by Dogma 95, it was inspired by the manifesto of the two Danish directors.
Credits
Produced by Antonio Fraioli and Luca Lardieri
Subject: Antonio Fraioli
Screenplay: Antonio Fraioli and Luca Lardieri
Director: Antonio Fraioli
Filming and photography: Luca Lardieri
Aerial shots: Alfredo Tranchida
Editing: Luca Lardieri and Antonio Fraioli
Live audio: Nicola Valente
Color correction: Antonio Petrianni
Voice-over: Gabriele Bròcani
Original music: Antonio Fraioli and Agostino Giordano
Stage photographs: Matteo Del Vecchio
English subtitles: Angela Castellano
Participants: MARCELLO DE DOMINICIS, journalist, MARIA CORSETTI, journalist, ANTONIO FRAIOLI, musician, MICHELE PLASTINO, journalist, MASSIMO GASBARRONI, guitarist, MAURO ZAZZARINI, saxophonist, ALESSANDRO CARBONARE, clarinetist, ANGELA LONGO, clarinetist, IRENE VENEZIANO, pianist, LIDANO GRASSUCCI, journalist, ARJAN MELONASHI, cameraman, PIETRO DE MARIA, pianist, QUARTETTO DI FIESOLE (Alina Company and Daniela Cammarano, violins – Pietro Scalvini, viola – Sandra Bacci, cello), CARLO MICHELI, saxophonist, ECOENSEMBLE TRIO (Morena Mestieri, flute – Paola Fundarò, oboe – Anna Bellagamba, piano), TERESA PROCACCINI, composer, VALERIA SERANGELI, clarinetist, CINZIA GIZZI TRIO (Cinzia Gizzi, piano – Gigi Rossi, double bass – Marco Rovinelli, drums), STEPHANIE ZELNICK, clarinetist (translation by Alessandra Rotondi), CALOGERO PALERMO, clarinetist, BANDA DI LATINA "GIOACCHINO ROSSINI", RAFFAELE GAIZO, conductor, NICOLA FERRO, trombonist and composer, MAURIZIO BERNARDI, journalist, STARK QUARTET (Antonio Fraioli, Simone Saccoccio and Vinibaldo Baccari, clarinets – Sergio Brusca, bass clarinet), LATINA PHILARMONIA, FRANCESCO BELLI, conductor, DITTA RAMPONE & CAZZANI, CORO ANNUNTIATAE CANTORES DI SABAUDIA, ELIO TATTI, double bass player, ORCHESTRA DEL CONSERVATORIO DI PALERMO, SALVATORE PIAZZA, conductor, RICCARDO CEROCCHI, president of the International Campus of Music of Latina, MARCO LO RUSSO, accordionist, FRANCESCO STELLA, wind instrument repairer, FRANK FERNANDEZ, pianist, ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA NACIONAL DE CUBA, GIOVANNI PUNZI, clarinetist, RICCARDO CELLACCHI, flutist, ANDREA CELLACCHI, bassoonist, CLAUDIO PARADISO, creator of the project "Casa della Musica di Latina"