DIRECTOR, CAMERAMAN AND EDITOR : PASCAL BERNHARDT
He was born and raised in the Parisian suburbs and has lived in Genoa for 13 years. He executes a master’s degree in social, visual, and cultural anthropology in 2011 and is trained in directing, and camera through various experiences with video maker collectives. He experiments with directing video clips, short films, and dwells on directing documentaries on social and political issues, experimenting with existential narratives of the individual to reveal how the political, social and economic dominations sculpt people’s lives. For more than a decade he has been making video ateliers, music videos in the purpose of giving growth tools to young people in need. He works freelance as a live sound engineer, cameraman and editor.
SOUND ENGINEER : PALOMA SUAZO JARA
She is Chilean, raised in the city of Santiago. She is an architect by training but retrained in different artistic practices and paths, illustration, collage, embroidery, comics. She is also a tattoo artist. She is concluding a new course of study at Belli Arti in Genoa illustration and comics section in the aim of elaborating comics on social and political issues. She experienced many struggles in her native country. She was already akin and sensitive to the themes covered in the documentary and participated passionately in the reflective path that opened up for her and her companion.
Pascal and Paloma discovered each other and grew even closer on the field of making this documentary. They have come together on the path of discovery and encounters, maturing reflections, astonishments and interrogations. Paloma embarked as sound engineer to replace at the last minute the sound engineer who due to personal problems could not come.
MUSICHE : STEFANO D'ARCHANGELO
Composer and musician of Compagnia Fantasma participates in radio experiences in Rai and Radio Città del Capo. He works at Teatro San Martino within the Gruppo Libero Teatro participating in the stagecraft of shows by Fortebraccio Teatro, Aldes, Stefano Questorio and many others.He has taught at Laboratorio 41 and produced Larp for years with the Chaos League.Producer and composer for film and theater, member of the Bhutan Clan and the Melologos project, he writes and arranges music for numerous artists. In recent years he has devoted himself to the language of podcasts by conceiving and producing works for writers and publishing houses. He is the composer of the BO of the documentary and the sound design of the film.
Stefano d’Arcangelo was introduced to the director by Wu Ming, because he collaborates with them on numerous projects composing the musical environments for various live shows they have worked on here or for experiments in recordings to their credit. As soon as he heard about the project he threw himself into it willingly and with great enthusiasm being very much akin to the cause of the film.
WU MING is a collective of Bologna-based writers who have experimented and invented numerous literary and other experiments around Luther Blisset’s mystery entity. They are the authors of Q, 54, Manituana, Altai and other internationally known works of historical fiction, a form they practiced for many years until they decided to move on and use history in other ways. The last historical novel in the sequence that began with Q in the 1990s was The Army of Sleepwalkers (2014), which already heralded changes.
Today they treasure what they have learned from exploring that genre and forcing its conventions, and they turn to new experiments, seeking an uncanny balance between history and fantasy. That is what they tried to do with The Invisible Everywhere (2015), Proletkult (2018), The Wind Machine (2019) and UFO 78 (2022).
After the first dive and round of filming, studio time begins for the filmmaker to learn more about a region he had never been to before. And that’s when he discovers and reads the texts and critical readings WU MING developed around the flood and decides to engage them to contribute their analyses and voices to the documentary’s narrative.
