TAMARO. Stones and angels. Mario Botta Enzo Cucchi
The film is about two artists: one from the mountains, the Italian-Swiss architect Mario Botta who built a chapel, and the other, the painter: Enzo Cucchi, a man of the sea who painted the frescoes in the chapel, one of which is 70 meters long.
Ticino Film Commission
Imagofilm Lugano
- Dipartimento dell'istruzione e della cultura, Bellinzona; Migros, percento culturale ; Banque de Dépôts et de Gestion; Katholischer Mediendienst; Fondation Christiane et Jean Henneberger-Mercier; Fondazione SUISA per la musica; AET; Ente ticinese per il turismo
(selection):
- Premio del cinema svizzero nomination 1999, Firenze Festival dei Popoli 1998, Giornate di Soletta 1999, Seattle International Film Festival 1999, São Paolo International Filmfestival 1999, Mar del Plata Filmfestival 1999, Haifa Film Festival 1999, Trento Film Festival 1999, Freistadt. Der neue Heimatfilm 2000, Pärnu Film Festival 2000, Rhode Island RIFF 2001.
Restauro 2K:
Laboratorio : Andromeda Film, Zurigo
Color Grading restauro : Patrick Lindenmaier
Contributi al restauro 2K (2023):
Memoriav, Berna; Dipartimento dell’educazione, della cultura e dello sport, Bellinzona; Ticino Film Commission; Succès Passage Antenne; Fondazione Egidio e Mariangela Cattaneo, Fondazione Dr. Hans Dietler/Kottmann.
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Architect Mario Botta and artist Enzo Cucchi worked for several years on the Santa Maria degli Angeli chapel on Mount Tamaro. First came the shell for the stone building, to which the art reacted in turn, and which in its turn influenced the interior space, in its colors above all. Finished in 1996, the work is a synthesis in which the two art forms interact. Their investigation is centered on a spirituality with a Christian orientation, corresponding to its time and expressed in the architecture and painting, as in the case of the two white hands on a blue ground, carved into the inner wall of the apse, filling it with their monumental presence. Interspersed in the chronological account of the construction are views of the mountainous landscape, sometimes visible in the distance, sometimes enveloped in fog, as well as digressions on Enzo Cucchi's origins in the coastal city of Ancona, or on the tradition of stone inlay, practiced in the XVIIIth century in Ticino and in southern Italy: such cross-references and brief allusions blend objective reporting with poetic fable. The grandeur and harmony of the site are highlighted by the music by Paul Giger, Swiss composer and violinist, who recorded a brief oratory, an archaic mass 17 minutes in lenght, in the chapel as yet in construction.
Fairy tale reader and at the piano: Clio Herrmann
Grip: Ezio Conforti
Helicopter pilot: Markus Gluderer
Marian texts: Father Giovanni Pozzi
3D animation: Rainer Maria Trinkler
Graphics: Michela Balmelli
Soprano: Maria Walpen Frey
Music recording: Peter Drefahl
More information about the Curch Santa Maria degli Angeli: www.montetamaro.ch
During the 56th Solothurn Film Festival, director Villi Hermann, architect Mario Botta and Giuseppe di Salvatore discuss architecture and the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5pZghjJC_U&list=PLfXIufrz5_8-SiCBqstio1j6y5fPyCa-I
By making this film, in fact a 'film in progress' (shot between Rome, Ancona, Padula and Lugano), I hope to share my enthusiasm and tell the story of my visits to Botta's mountain in the company of Cucchi, but above all the harmony that has been created between the architect and the artist, the creation of the frescoes and of this 'chapel with four hands'.
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