Hasta La Ideas

Abbiamo fatto due chiacchere con il collettivo Canada in occasione del loro primo corto girato nel nostro bel paese Beyond Mountains More Mountains presentato durante l’ultimo MFF in collaborazione con 55DSL.

Beyond Mountains More Mountains is your very first film. What kind of difficulties have you found approaching this new exciting adventure?
It is not really our first short film. We’ve made others but not recently. The extra difficulty comes with the length, and that is finding the narrative, or something that keeps the audience watching the piece until the end.
It was very hard work, indeed, but we are happy with the results.

How did you come out with the idea of building the film over the image of a young girl loosing her boot?
We pictured our trip around Italy as our own personal experience trying to figure out if the idea we had of Italy still existed, We also were trying to find a plot that we’d be able to develop within a shortfilm length but also featuring many different situations and outfits, that last one brand-wise.
So eventually we decided to go for this boot idea, very naïve and a bit of a joke, but we felt it was good as a place to start and not to pretentious for the kind of film related to a brand this was meant to be after all.

With Beyond Mountains, More Mountains you said you wanted to start a trip around Italy with the aim of verifying if that beautiful old country full of arts, culture and literature still exists nowadays. So, have you find the answer to your quest?
I guess Italy it’s hidden over there somewhere. But the quest is what really matters, and I guess it never ends, and it is good for it to stay like this.

On the 19th of September, Beyond Mountains, More Mountains will be presented as world premiere at Milano FIlm Festival. A bit scared by the eventuality of receiving any bad feedback/ review?
We don’t really think about that. We always try to make the best film possible within the possibilities we have in place. That’s what we can control, the rest is out of our boundaries. Of course we’re happy if we get a good reaction, our aim is always to do something as beautiful and entertaining as possible.

How did your collaboration with 55DSL help you to complete the film?
We were given quite a lot of freedom and at some point they were keen to help us getting the right music for the film, so all fine.

What about your future plans? Any new film ideas?
We’ll keep on doing this the best way we can, of course we’re interested in features, but we don’t have any particular project in this direction so far.