Who needs a home and a family when you’ve got four wheels?
A man leads an organized life. He jogs each morning, works in the office nine to five, picks up the laundry once a week. True, he lives in his car, and he hasn’t seen his wife and daughter for a while. But don’t we all need a little break from the world every so often?
Part character study, part road movie, Respite is the atmospheric story of a modern-day hermit.
Screenplay, Direction, Production: Adriano Cirulli – fallingfilm.com – goo.gl/wNFZgk Cast: Gianluca Cesale – goo.gl/lfz8dB, Sabrina Bartlett – goo.gl/rNQH1b Original music: Eivind Aarset – eivindaarset.com Cinematography: Robin Whenary – robinwhenary.com Editing: Elisa Cepedal – cargocollective.com/elisacepedal Sound design: Tom Lock Griffiths – goo.gl/qbRnjt Art direction: Charlie Marie Austin – charliemarieaustin.com Color: Tim Waller, Adriano Cirulli Additional Cast: Sarah De Winter, Stuart Gee, Robert Scott, Tereza Klucka, Carli Johnson, Alan Sawyer, Pete Smith. Associate Producer: Kevin Ahern 1st AD: Andrea Palladino Production Manager: Kristina Neckel Location Manager: Andrea Mongenie Focus Puller: Jake Martin Camera Assistant: Ola Mesmer Sound Recordists: Tom Harburt, Grant Studart, Matt Price Gaffers: Tom Maine, Ed Riley Make-up: Ala Pangracova Stills Photographer: Angus Young DIT: Richard Perry, Iustin Filip-Mucenic Production Assistant: Joe Miller Runner: Selen Zorlu Film clip from “The Seventh Veil” courtesy of A2B Media Ltd Music clip from “Beautiful World” courtesy of MediaPro Music Entertainment
Winner: Interpretation Award, Gianluca Cesale – Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris 2016. Winner: Remi Award – 49th Worldfest Houston 2016.
Selections: 30th Brest European Short Film Festival, France – 10-15 November 2015. 7th Timishort Film Festival, Romania – 15-18 October 2015. 16th Izmir Short Film Festival, Turkey – 17-22 November 2015. 13th London Short Film Festival, UK – 8-17 January 2016. 18th Spokane International Film Festival, USA – 29 January-6 February 2016. 2nd Manchester Film Festival, UK – 3-6 March 2016. 32nd Sarajevo Winter Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 7 February-21 March 2016. ClujShorts International Short Film Festival, Romania – 04-10 March 2016. 34th International Film Festival of Uruguay – 22 March-3 April 2016. 2016 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival / Mostra CineTrabalho, São Paulo, Brazil – 4 May 2016. A Long Week of Short Films Festival, Shanghai, China – 5-15 May 2016. 10th Llamale H Film Festival, Montevideo, Uruguay – 5-15 September 2016. 4th Festival Les Enfants Terribles, Huy, Belgium – 20-23 October 2016. 15th Reggio Film Festival, Italy – 3-14 November 2016. 14th Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris, France – 24 November-4 December 2016. 5th Smita Patil Documentary and Short Film Festival, Pune, India – 10-11 December 2016. 15th Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht, Berlin, Germany- 21-22 January 2017.
A study of human interaction expressed through movement and sound.
1st Prize Art Lab Award at Festival Internazionale del Cinema D’Arte 2012. Best Experimental Film at Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival 2011.
FESTIVALS: FLOW – Adelaide Dance Festival, Australia – 19-20 July 2018. Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria – 10 September 2016. Animasyros International Animation Festival + Agora, Syros, Greece – 24-27 September 2015. Totem Arti Festival, Ferrara, Italy – 12-15 June 2014. Portsmouth Short Film Night, NH, USA – 29 May 2014. Next Dance Cinema – Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, USA – 9-10 December 2013. Danza Xixon, Gijon, Spain – 22-24 October 2013. Incubate, Tilburg, The Netherlands – 16-22 September 2013. MovingWalls, Ferrara, Italy – 7 September 2013. Dance@30fps, Gateway Film Center, Columbus, USA – 4 April 2013. Brighton Photo Fringe, The Old Market, Brighton, UK – 6 October-18 November 2012. Oklahoma Dance Film Festival, USA – 3-4 November 2012. Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY, USA – 21-27 September 2012. Cinedanse Montreal, Canada – 20-23 September 2012. ICMC 2012, Institute for Sonic Arts Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia – 9-15 September 2012. Incubate, Tilburg, The Netherlands – 9 September 2012. Festival Internazionale del Cinema D’Arte, Bergamo, Italy – 14-21 July 2012. In The Palace International Short Film Festival, Varna, Bulgaria – 29 June-7 July 2012. Dance Camera West, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA – 28 June 2012. Arcipelago Film Festival, Rome, Italy – 15-22 June 2012. L’Hybride, Lille, France – 9 June 2012. ACT Festival (as part of Cinedans On Tour 2012) – Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain – 31 May-3 June 2012. DI_Stanze – International Festival of Sonic Arts, Catania, Italy – 23-26 May 2012. Athens Video Art Festival, Greece – 18-20 May 2012. Leicester International Dance Festival, UK – 12-27 May 2012. Segnali – Rassegna di Arti Audiovisive e Performance, Perugia, Italy – 7-9 May 2012. Mediawave International Film and Music Festival, Gyor, Hungary – 26-30 April 2012. Mecal Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain – 15 April 2012. ECU – European Independent Film Festival, Paris, France – 30 March-1 April 2012. Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands – 14-18 March 2012. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain – 14 March 2012. Mumbai International Film Festival, India – 3-9 February 2012. Dance on Camera Festival, New York, USA – 27-31 January 2012. London Short Film Festival, UK – 6-15 January 2012. Cinedans, Amsterdam, Netherlands – 1-4 December 2011. VideoDanzaBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina – 22-27 November 2011. Mostra Invideo, Milano, Italy – 16-20 November 2011. Dance:Film 11, Edinburgh, UK – 12-19 November 2011. Braunschweig International Film Festival, Germany – 8-13 November 2011. Festival Europeen du Film Court de Brest, France – 8-13 November 2011. Bolzano Short Film Festival, Italy – 8-12 November 2011. Leeds International Film Festival, UK – 3-20 November 2011. Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK – 3-6 November 2011. Cinetoro Film Festival, Toro Valle, Colombia – 2-7 November 2011. Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil – 28 October-6 November 2011. Cinemed, Montpellier, France – 21-29 October 2011. Festival International du Court Metrage, Lille, France – 19 and 24 October 2011. Paris Courts Devant, France – 13-16 October 2011. Ozu Film Festival, Modena, Italy – 13-16 October 2011. VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain – 6-15 October 2011. Message to Man International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia – 24 September 2011. Split Film Festival, Croatia – 10-17 September 2011. Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil – 27-30 August 2011. Kilburn Film Festival, Tricycle Cinema, London, UK – 9 July 2011. Cannes Lions: Part of a 4-Screen Installation for The Mill, France – 19-25 June 2011. Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival, London, UK – 18 June 2011. Toronto CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada – 3 June 2011. 57th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany – 7 May 2011. Aspen Shortsfest, USA – 7 April 2011.
