DA VINCI a flm by Yuri Ancarani

Italy, 25 min colour no dialogues

Da Vinci is the title of the fnal chapter of Yuri Ancarani's trilogy, which is centred on the theme of work. Conceived and made as artist documentaries, the frst two chapters, as well as being able to boast several important names, such as Maurizio Cattelan as producer, were presented at the 67th and 68th Venice Festivals. The three chapters will become a feature flm in episodes which will be presented as a special event in 2013. The flm Da Vinci is entirely set inside an operating room, an imaginative journey into a microcosm where the hope and expectation felt from the outside are confused with the clear and rational objectivity of the machine and the surgeons. An unintentional drama is triggered by the working process, with time marked by the waiting, moments of pathos, a sense of routine normality that leads us viewers to be fascinated by such serenity and professionalism in the doctors and operating room staff. Ancarani sought and captured the innovation of the Da Vinci system which consists of this: the patient's body who will never be touched directly by the hands of the physician, but only by the arms of the robot. During the course of the entire operation the extraordinary images captured by the robot will guide, in addition to our own, the expert eyes of the physician surgeon. The flm has been shown in an International Premiere on November 15, 2012 at the , in the new section entitled "Cinema of the twenty-frst century", in collaboration with the MAXXI National Museum of XXI century Art.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Synopsis Robotic surgery department. A surgeon performs an entire operation, controlling the robot's motions using a joystick.

Director's quote When I walked into the operating room, I realized how complex and heavy the role of a surgeon is. Then I started to flm and it was then that I wondered if it was right to show what I was looking at.

Crew Director and Editor YURI ANCARANI Producers MAURIZIO CATTELAN IVAN FRIONI GIORGIO GALLENZI ANTONELLA RODRIGUEZ BOCCANELLI WARLY TOMEI Co-producer MUSEO MARINO MARINI, FIRENZE Executive Producer ALBERTO SALVADORI sound MIRCO MENCACCI music LORENZO SENNI with the partecipation of REGIONE TOSCANA TOSCANA FILM COMMISSION RAVENNA 2019 CITTà CANDIDATA CAPITALE EUROPEA DELLA CULTURA

Cast OLIVIA FANUCCHI STYLIANOS KORASIDIS FRANCA MELFI EVENTS

Venice Biennal, Venice, CAC, Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Gèneve, Switzerland Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, , France

FESTIVAL Izmir Short Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey l'Alternativa, 20th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain BIEFF Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania RIDM- Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, Montrèal, Canada CIFF- Camden International Film Festival, Camden, Maine Dokufest- International documentary and Short Film Festival, Prizren, Kosova Guanajuato Internation Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico New Horizon International Film Festival, Wroclav, Poland Melbourne International Film Festival, Melborune, Australia 21th Art Film Fest, International Film Festival, Slovakia IKKF Hamburg, International Kurzflm Festival, Hamburg, Germany IndieLisboa, 10th International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival , Toronto, Canada Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, USA 51th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA True/False Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri, USA IFFR- International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Olanda , Rome, Italy

AWARDS Short Film Grand Prize, “IndieLisboa, 10th International Independent Film Festival”, Lisbon, Portugal

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