First edition, Saturday 18 June 2022, Acme Studios, via Aldo Moro 53, Ladispoli. CinemaItaliano.info describes a meeting between underground filmmakers and an audience, five shorts in competition, music by Luigi Maio and Noemi Palmiero, and a jury that included Luciano Tovoli, Roberto Girometti, Claudio Siniscalchi and Luciano Fontana.
Beyond cinema
Beyond the film
The cultural work sits beside the films and does not take their place. The Etruria Indie Short Film Fest and Critica della Ragion Cinematografica are the two chapters documented most closely.
Artistic direction — 2022 / 2023
Etruria Indie Short Film Fest
Vittorio Russo — artistic direction, as stated by him. The festival was organised by Jolly Roger Arts & Crafts APS. The 2023 press names him president of the association, with Nello Berardo as vice-president.
Second edition, Saturday 9 September 2023, again at Acme Studios. TalkCity reports seven shorts in two strands, Academic and Independent, a public vote, and a close with RAPSOdiSmurina. The programmed shorts are not films by Vittorio Russo.
Published on the Jolly Roger channel on 25 June 2022, a week after the first edition. The description is empty. The frame shows the festival mark and a guest on stage. It is not a portrait of Vittorio Russo.
2023 trailer: no video by that name is on the Jolly Roger channel. The slot stays empty. A trailer from another festival was not used.
Posters and photographs of the screenings were not in the open archives consulted. The gallery uses frames from the channel's videos only.
Projects
Projects
Jolly Roger Arts & Crafts APS
President, by his account and 2023 press
A non-profit association for independent film, working on low budgets with close attention to form. A TalkCity article of 12 September 2023 describes it as led by president Vittorio Russo and vice-president Nello Berardo.
Critica della Ragion Cinematografica
Editorial coordination, by his account
A print journal and a blog. The association describes it as a place where cinema opens onto ethical, social and philosophical questions. Covers of the printed issue were not in the open archives consulted.
La Brigata Narrante
A circle he ran, according to the biography he supplied
The association's writing circle: collective pieces, exchange, experiment. Open to beginners and to people with experience. Photographs of the meetings were not recovered.
Director's Cut
Evenings named by the director
Monographic evenings on the lives and films of directors. No specific programme turned up in the public archives consulted.
Pending approval
Fotografitineranti
An association project named by the director
Photographic trekking in Lazio, meant to open quiet places and then exhibit the pictures. Photographs from the walks were not in the archives consulted.
Guerrilla Filmmaking
Masterclass with Lorenzo D'Amico
Writing about the second Etruria edition, TalkCity reports a guerrilla-filmmaking masterclass at Acme Studios in Ladispoli, starting 8 October, led by Vittorio Russo and Lorenzo D'Amico. The subject was making a low-budget film without giving up care.
Selected writing
Cineprese ribelli e pellicole di contrabbando
It starts from a plain idea: calling a film a “product” shrinks it. The piece looks at cinema that travels outside magazines and outside standard industry. No personal byline is on the page.