Diary of a Sane Man

Overview

Sara is led by her grandfather through the mise-en-scene of a film being shot in ltaly. The landscape in which they walk is the film's plot, masquerading as a state of mind, Its sub-plot woven in with a selection of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The young girl sights Venus strolling through these landscapes, an ‘agent provocateur’ from the country of myth. A filmmaker, In whose imagination this plot is unraveling, approaches a group of producers to fund his film "Aphrodite". The film begins to shift back and forth between archaic and modern notions of myth, highlighting the distinctions between myth and story and the relationships between history and biography.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Micha Bergese

The Sane Man

Julia Langley

Antonin Artaud

Sara Donadoni

grandchild

Charles Shuts

grandfather

Gad Hollander

film-maker

Monty Ray Garrison

poet

Raffaella Monti

Venus/Aphrodite

Antonio Celiento

Adonis