Riverbero

Italian premiere: Festival internazionale del film di Roma 2013
Web premiere: Wired Italy 2013
International premiere: Glasgow Film Festival 2014
US film premiere: Brooklyn Film Festival 2014

“A space that, in the hands of Mybosswas, becomes the mystical setting of a performance that distills bodies and purity of sound. A must-see.”
L’Espresso

“Exploring the unknown with a mix of music, cinema, and graphics. When music, cinema, and graphics come together, the result is always astonishing. And this time, even more so.”
La Stampa

“The film about essential yet unknown lives.”
Il Corriere della Sera

The preparatory short film of Beautiful Things was shot in 2013.

The reverberation chamber, this tremendous, unfamiliar space, moves those who walk over its threshold into an overflow of mystical awe. Yet it is but a measuring tool for those who explore the boundaries of the physics of sound.

Unbeknownst to us, the reverberation chamber is an obligatory rite of passage for most of the objects we use in our daily lives.

The film is based on the interaction between the almost-holy, aesthetic elevation of a once-off musical performance that can only be played within the chamber, and the sheer mathematical aloofness of its ‘priest’.

Giorgio Ferrero and Rodolfo Mongitore (Minus&Plus) composed and recorded a unique and unrepeatable suite for the reverberation chamber, which for the first time abandoned its role as a measuring instrument to become a true musical instrument. It is composed of blown organ pipes, struck walls, and human voices.

Written and directed by
Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasin

Screenplay
Giorgio Ferrero, Federico Biasin, Rodolfo Mongitore, Tommaso Bertani

Cameras
Federico Biasin e Walter Magri

Editing
Federico Biasin,Giorgio Ferrero, Tommaso Bertani

Music and sound
Giorgio Ferrero e Rodolfo Mongitore (Minus&Plus)

Produced by
MYBOSSWAS and RING FILM

With
Andrea Pavoni Belli
Aurora Hysenji
Christel Martinod
Danilo Pastore
Elisabetta Reali
Gabriel Joffe
Jacopo Valsania
Marta Enrico
Oresti Zeneli
Roberta Cortese
Simona Ramella
Stefano Gambarino
Valerio Petrantoni
Adele Di Pasquale
Benedetta Ravicchio
Davide Corbo