Diary of a Sane Man 1990 Directed by Gad Hollander
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.
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
Carla Fioravanti
Fortune Teller
David L Hirst
farmer's voice
Ian Hinchliffe
studio chef
Lol Coxhill
fat producer
Paul Lawrence Davies
thin producer
Tony Green
producer with hat
Gerry Fitzgerald
second fat producer
Angela Abelini & Baby
motionless women
Marina Chiarelotto
motionless women
Marta Donati
motionless women
Marta & Alice Mottura
moving children
Ali
1st. tractor driver
Palmiero Pisani
2nd. tractor driver
Christopher Duke
bike rider
Graham Gussin
(god)
Sotheby
dog
Adi Hollander
home-movie stars
Gavriel Hollander
home-movie stars
Noam Hollander
home-movie stars
Mimi Hollander
home-movie stars