2025 - 50' – Italian, Spanish (Available subtitles:Italian, German, English)
When joking, you have to be serious. Piero, his students and Katia show us a light-hearted way of being profound.
I am Fabrizio, I’m 29 and I come from Rome. I’ve spent most of my life there, but as soon as I turned 18 I started travelling around. Once in my 14-16 I experienced for the first time that feeling of connection with something greater than me, that feeling you get when your thinking becomes clear as water and sharp as a blade. I craved for more ever since. After a few years of wandering between a job and another experimenting other me, I enrolled in my first cinema school where I had my first approach with a camera. Since then filming is all I have wanted to do. I’ve made a couple of independent short films, and I've been working as a camera operator for some television documentaries, mostly about hunting, nature or social themes. But this didn’t keep me from studying. I attended several classes for acting, editing and writing, working on my projects and talking about cinema. Finally I felt it was time to take some years to focus on studies only, then I applied to ZeLIG.
I, Max Hörner, was born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany. Growing up I was lucky enough to have a mother that was always pushing us children to educate ourselves in all kinds of arts. After I graduated from high school in 2017 I went to Bayreuth to study Media Science and Media Praxis. There I quickly discovered my passion for documentaries and also cinema in general. I never really liked to write paper after paper but rather wanted to make movies myself. In 2020 I went for an Erasmus year to Rome where I learned Italian and started looking for opportunities to study documentary filmmaking in Italy. That's how I discovered ZeLIG.
Riccardo Brugnara, born in Trento in 1997, thanks to my parents I could be in nature and travel from a young age becoming the curious guy I feel to be today. When I was 16 I started working in warehouses or in bars during Summer after my father made me notice that I had too much free time, so after getting my diploma in computer science and enjoying an Interrail through Europe I wanted to make some more experience abroad and went working in England. I then decided to go for a degree in politics and while doing that I discovered the existence of ZeLig, cinema was always there in my life. My love for stories and freedom created this idea of me that I want to make real, "starting" from this experience at ZeLig.
What does it mean to have a clown within? It is the ability to tell your own story playfully. Playfulness is what I loved watching Piero’s play and following him with the camera behind the scenes. As a clown he is a wise child, but as an entrepreneur is eclectic and hyperactive, strategic and prepared.
Country of production: Italy
Shooting Format(s): HD 1080@25p
Original Master Format: HD 1080@25p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Screening Format: DCP, Apple ProRes or any on request
Audio Format: Stereo (2.0)
Running time: 49’20"
Subtitles available: Italian / German / English
Director: Fabrizio Orsola
Cinematographer: Max Hörner
Editor: Riccardo Brugnara
Soundrecordist: Riccardo Brugnara, Fabrizio Orsola
Sound Design / Mix: Philippe Gozlan
ZeLIG is located in Bolzano, Italy, a multilingual city where different cultures live together. The school is a place of exchange for students, teachers and film professionals from all over the world.
At ZeLIG the spoken languages are German, Italian and English. This creative approach to linguistic variety opens the gates to the international markets and to future opportunities.
