A unique cinematic experiment. A grotesque fairy tale staged in real life by the real protagonists. The story of Artaserse, retired worker, boxer, trainer and painter all his life.
A unique cinematic experiment. A grotesque fairy tale staged in real life by the real protagonists. A completely self-produced film, conceived, directed and shot by two visual artists to tell the story of Artaserse, retired worker, boxer, trainer and painter all his life. All immersed in the scenario of an industrial Terni now in decay, the bay of steel without sea, where it is difficult to dream of being an artist.Artaserse was born from the need and the urgency to tell this character and his world, Artaserse, "Serse" for all, is 74 years old, a worker of the Thyssen Krupp steelworks in retirement. Thyssen Krupp steelworks in retirement, was a talented boxer in his youth, is coach a bit 'played but passionate and still active, and still active; but passionate and still active, and finally, for all his life, a painter. Reality, as we know, is the richest and most unpredictable source of inspiration and at a certain point, almost four years ago, we realized that he was giving us the implant of a story. There was already everything in that provincial world that we frequent and that we know so well, starting with from the hero protagonist, the artist boxer Artaserse, to the secondary characters linked to him: a compulsive a compulsive collector and fixer, an innkeeper friend who charges lunches and dinners with paintings, a talking cricket, an old friend and a talented electronic musician with a tormented life, as well as many other characters.
Tormented life, in addition to the many other masks, no less interesting, which are the corollary. We have fantasized about the script that in our opinion could fit better to animate this world and we found it easily. This world and we have found it easily in what to us, that we are called Versus not by chance, it succeeds best: the clash of the characters by chance, succeeds best: the clash. The narrative key was the one that in our opinion would make the best, so we have called our hero and his friends to act out their own lives in a grotesque fairy tale that sees Artaserse engaged in a futuristic encounter-contrast with the world of art. More generally we can say that all our suburban knights, live a constant battle, each in its own way, with life itself and with the contemporary society itself and with the contemporary society of which they are more or less consciously on the margins. The all is dipped in the Umbrian province, in the Terni "bay of steel" where we were born and grown up too, with a "dream that sticks like glue to the soul" and with all the risks of the case. Who is the artist? Who can be defined as such? Who decides? Who writes the story and who remains in the shadows? In our opinion Artaserse is a great artist in all respects, an incredible talent in drawing and the value of his work is undeniable.
