La Manza
Umbria in Celluloide

About marechiarofilm: 

Founded by Antonietta De Lillo, the company has always been able to count on her know-how and thirty years of experience as a director and entrepreneur, always transversal between different formats, genres and languages. An experimental aspect that has become a peculiar feature of marechiarofilm, especially standing out in the project of the participatory film, which, in 2016 made her creator Antonietta De Lillo win a special Silver Ribbon for her innovative journey in the cinema of reality.

SYNOPSIS 

The film is about profound contradictions and the attraction for the dark. The man who embodies all of this is a giant who enters into symbiosis with the animals he looks after. With the head bent a little to the side, the eyes rotating upwards to chase the images being narrated, which are actual and mixed with noises and smells like the stables he is regularly in. 

He is an expert in animal husbandry using intensive farming to produce the maximum.

Cows, horses and large-scale distribution are inherent part of his life and he talks as if nothing else existed. You enter his mind as in a dream. The cow, the Chianina cow, the Maremmana, the genetic research of its forms, fattening and the inexorable end. Determining the animal’s body, enlarging it at the right places, increasing muscle mass. The flesh of the animals cannot be distinguished from his, he wraps them, touches them and evaluates them, only gradually we can understand who is who, the bodies are revealed, the story of the cow is revealed, his life is revealed.

This man lets us enter a world that reveals his and our contradictions, the rawness of breeding, the deep relationship between him and the beasts.

Logline
Cows, the weigh, gigantic somatism, the hooks, the slaughterhouse, trotting horses and this big man whose eyes move out of control between two dimensions, between blood and tender affection.