PHOTOGRAPHING NEW YORK
A film by CESARE BEDOGNE'
This short film is based on a poem I wrote remembering the two weeks I spent in New York in 2004, on occasion of my first photo exhibition overseas. I almost forgot this piece of writing, which I had strangely written directly in English in the course of a feverish night, until it resurfaced to my mind almost fifteen years later, while I was travelling in Portugal. Then I started taking filmic shots inspired by the poem, dreaming about America beyond the long hypnotic waves and the old corroded wharves, at the other end of the lone Atlantic. In the editing, I added some of the pictures taken 15 years before together with a single and especially painful picture taken in a Dutch hospital in 1997, interlacing thus through film-making different periods of my life and different artistic languages in what is more a portrait of psychic interior than a documentary.
Country: Italy/Portugal
Runtime: 8.54 mins
Genre: Documentary / Experimental / Poetry Film
TRAILER
AWARDS
BEST POETRY FILM, TIMELESS AWARDS, Wroclaw 2022
BEST SHORT FILM, LITERATURE IN CINEMA, Buenos Aires 2022
BEST DOCUMENTARY, POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Los Angeles 2022
BEST POETRY FILM, MAKE ART NOT FEAR FILM FESTIVAL, Porto 2022
HONOURABLE MENTION OF THE JURY, JANiE AUSTEN IFF, Bath, UK 2022
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, CANNES CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023
MENTION HONORABLE, BORDEAUX BIENNALE 2022
SCA AMTERDAM 2025 BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM (BRONZE)
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:
6th ART VISUALS & POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Vienna 2021
16th L'EUROPE AUTOUR DE L'EUROPE, Paris 2021
75° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO 2021
MONOLOGUES & POETRY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA 2021
FOTOGENIA FILM FESTIVAL, Mexico City 2021
INTERNATIONAL ART FILM FESTIVAL, London 2021
RIBALTA FILM FESTIVAL, Italy 2022
8th ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL, Roma 2022
5th NEW RENAISSANCE FILM FESTIVAL, Amsterdam 2022
INTERNATIONAL WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, Slovakia, 2022
IFF AKROBAT, Sint Petersburg (Russian Federation), 2022
BLOOMSDAY FILM FESTIVAL, James Joyce Centre, Dublin 2022
VASTLAB Experimental, Los Angeles 2022
SERBEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Kishinev, Republic of Moldova 2022
SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Aubonne 2022
VASTLAB EXPERIMENTAL VLX4 TOURING PROGRAM, Chicago 2023
SCA Los Angeles, 2024
AOTEAROA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Wellington, New Zealand 2024
A review by Gustavo Coletti
"Photographing New York" is a poetic recital by Cesare Bedogne
Last week the first Literature in Film Festival, which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to an end. The winner of the award for the Best Short was notable. Cesare Bedognè's film is of exceptional poetic intensity.
There is a logic to that since his short film is based on a poem. Cesare Bedogné is an Italian photographer, film-maker and writer. His experimental works have been awarded at multiple international festivals.
In the case of "Photographing New York", not only urban geography is the protagonist. So are rain and sadness. Black and white photography is an evocative texture. The lighting framing are exquisite.
This short film is based on a poem I wrote remembering the two weeks I spent in New York in 2004, on occasion of my first photo exhibition overseas. I almost forgot this piece of writing, which I had strangely written directly in English in the course of a feverish night, until it resurfaced to my mind almost fifteen years later, while I was travelling in Portugal. Then I started taking filmic shots inspired by the poem, dreaming about America beyond the long hypnotic waves and the old corroded wharves, at the other end of the lone Atlantic. In the editing, I added some of the pictures taken 15 years before together with a single and especially painful picture taken in a Dutch hospital in 1997, interlacing thus through film-making different periods of my life and different artistic languages in what is more a portrait of psychic interior than a documentary.
Country: Italy/Portugal
Runtime: 8.54 mins
Genre: Documentary / Experimental / Poetry Film
TRAILER
AWARDS
BEST POETRY FILM, TIMELESS AWARDS, Wroclaw 2022
BEST SHORT FILM, LITERATURE IN CINEMA, Buenos Aires 2022
BEST DOCUMENTARY, POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Los Angeles 2022
BEST POETRY FILM, MAKE ART NOT FEAR FILM FESTIVAL, Porto 2022
HONOURABLE MENTION OF THE JURY, JANiE AUSTEN IFF, Bath, UK 2022
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, CANNES CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023
MENTION HONORABLE, BORDEAUX BIENNALE 2022
SCA AMTERDAM 2025 BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM (BRONZE)
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:
6th ART VISUALS & POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Vienna 2021
16th L'EUROPE AUTOUR DE L'EUROPE, Paris 2021
75° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO 2021
MONOLOGUES & POETRY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA 2021
FOTOGENIA FILM FESTIVAL, Mexico City 2021
INTERNATIONAL ART FILM FESTIVAL, London 2021
RIBALTA FILM FESTIVAL, Italy 2022
8th ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL, Roma 2022
5th NEW RENAISSANCE FILM FESTIVAL, Amsterdam 2022
INTERNATIONAL WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, Slovakia, 2022
IFF AKROBAT, Sint Petersburg (Russian Federation), 2022
BLOOMSDAY FILM FESTIVAL, James Joyce Centre, Dublin 2022
VASTLAB Experimental, Los Angeles 2022
SERBEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Kishinev, Republic of Moldova 2022
SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Aubonne 2022
VASTLAB EXPERIMENTAL VLX4 TOURING PROGRAM, Chicago 2023
SCA Los Angeles, 2024
AOTEAROA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Wellington, New Zealand 2024
A review by Gustavo Coletti
"Photographing New York" is a poetic recital by Cesare Bedogne
Last week the first Literature in Film Festival, which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to an end. The winner of the award for the Best Short was notable. Cesare Bedognè's film is of exceptional poetic intensity.
There is a logic to that since his short film is based on a poem. Cesare Bedogné is an Italian photographer, film-maker and writer. His experimental works have been awarded at multiple international festivals.
In the case of "Photographing New York", not only urban geography is the protagonist. So are rain and sadness. Black and white photography is an evocative texture. The lighting framing are exquisite.
