Aside from presiding over the jury of the CineMaOltre: Paladium Film Festival (9-14 March 2021), Dr Alex Marlow-Mann also saw one of his own works screened as part of a special event. The feature-length documentary film ‘That’s la Morte: Italian Cult Cinema in the Years of Lead’, which Dr. Marlow-Mann co-wrote, co-researched and co-produced with the director Xavier Mendik in 2018 examines how the political turmoil and social upheavals of the 1970s in Italy were reflected in popular genre filmmaking.
The film has now been screened in a dozen festivals in the UK, US and across Europe and has won awards at the Underground Indie Film Festival in Florida and Helsinki Education Film Festival International (‘best documentary’, 2019).
Dr Marlow-Mann says, “This documentary, which built on previous academic research projects by both myself and the film’s director, made use of exclusive access to the archives of the famed Dania Film production company as well as interviews with over twenty of the period’s leading film practitioners. After the film’s successes on the international film festival circuit, it was a particular pleasure to screen the film in Rome, where it was shot and where the films it discusses were made.”
Image: Director Sergio Martino and actress Edwige Fenech in conversation in ‘That’s la morte’