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REPLAY EUROPE

By Marco FANTACUZZI

Environmental - Development 2017

RePLAY EUROPE, conceived as a series of episodes for a pan-European TV-series format, is a project that explores the ever-growing movement of artists and designers embracing a new consuming philosophy and practicing up-cycling all around Europe.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Environmental, Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY, GERMANY, FRANCE, SPAIN, AUSTRIA, DENMARK
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 260 mn
- Director(s)
- Marco FANTACUZZI
- Producer(s)
- Marco FANTACUZZI (CINEMA KEY), Roberto CAVALLINI (CINEMA KEY)
- Synopsis
- The idea of a project on up-cycling – a growing cultural movement that influences not only art, but different creative fields such as design, jewelry, clothing, furniture, food and architecture – was triggered by an exciting experience occurred during the shooting of a reportage for a non-profit organization in 2014. While touring Italy from North to South on a funny vintage van, following two art curators, we had the chance to meet a bunch of very special artists that practice the philosophy of up-cycling. They are creative people who live their life working silently, hidden in their ateliers. They don’t appear much in TV nor give public speeches on the importance of reusing materials to reduce the amount of waste. They rather prefer to change the world day by day and little by little, crafting objects from waste with their own hands. And they seem to be unimportant, not relevant in a mass society where buying a new object is less expensive than repairing an old one but actually they have a lot to say. They are the pioneers of a reuse and consuming philosophy that everyone will embrace sooner or later: hopefully before waste will literally invade our planet.
  Given the small budget at disposal and with some investment from our production company, Cinema Key, the reportage was roughly assembled into a film that has been selected in Cinemambiente – Enviromental film festival. The film has been premiered on the 8th of October 2015 in Turin. The distribution of the film in Italy is expected between Spring and Summer 2016.
  
  With this background, the idea for REPLAY EUROPE is to expand the geographical scope of the previous film into a pan-european project, with the intention of filming a 10000km journey throughout different countries. The casting of the project will start with travelling all over Europe in search of the best and most visually or conceptually striking up-cycling artists and projects. At the same time we will take actions to establish relationships with important art institutions, or renown galleries, for the final presentation-installation of artworks. We aim to have a development fund to have all this before going to write the final outline of the series, with the episodes and the real protagonists involved.