Michelangelo Frammartino Made a Movie in the One Place on Earth Where Google Street Won’t Go
Michaelangelo Frammartino was 700 meters deep inside the Bifurto Abyss, a vast cave in southern Italy, when a sudden flood trapped him there. The filmmaker and amateur speleologist, who was in the process of shooting his new movie “Il Buco,” wasn’t too worried.
“Everything was under control,” he said in a recent interview over Zoom. “We could have just waited until the end of the flooding but the media asked for a real-time rescue. We arrived outside the cave and it was strange.” He felt that the TV reporters embellished the rescue to play up a nonexistent drama, which struck an ironic contrast with the immersive cinematic experience he was constructing down below. “Outside the cave, there was this fiction that was far less ordinary and calm than the one we were trying to tell,” he said.
Frammartino doesn’t make movies so much as intangible immersions: In 2010, his acclaimed...
“Everything was under control,” he said in a recent interview over Zoom. “We could have just waited until the end of the flooding but the media asked for a real-time rescue. We arrived outside the cave and it was strange.” He felt that the TV reporters embellished the rescue to play up a nonexistent drama, which struck an ironic contrast with the immersive cinematic experience he was constructing down below. “Outside the cave, there was this fiction that was far less ordinary and calm than the one we were trying to tell,” he said.
Frammartino doesn’t make movies so much as intangible immersions: In 2010, his acclaimed...
- 04/09/2021
- par Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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