Diego et Luca Governatori

Diego and Luca Governatori
Period: 2008-2009
Profession: “Our mother is French, our father Italian. We grew up and lived for twenty years in a house in the southwest of France, in the middle of the woods. When we were teenagers, in the vicinity of our father, whose profession was painting, we discovered the desire to link our lives to cinema, and to share the road to it. We moved to Paris to study, where we made our first sketches. Then, in 2003, we entered Femis, one in the directing section, the other in the editing section, and for four years we were able to work side by side, forging our own vision. We made several short and medium-length films. Inhabited by painting, and eager to bring cinema into dialogue with it, we first sought to make films in which the sensory work on the image took precedence over everything else. Then life, in its simplest appearance, seemed to us to conceal a richness of its own that cinema has the power to bring to the fore. And so, without renouncing the demands of form, we sought to expand our territory of research, to open it up to more real, sometimes documentary, perspectives. Our graduation film,
Vita di Giacomo , took as its source the series of “little priests” by Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli, and sought to invent its cinematographic variation in the space of fiction. It follows the itinerary of a seminarian in the days leading up to his ordination, against the backdrop of Italy’s soccer World Cup.
Vita di Giacomo was selected for the Cinefondation section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, and has gone on to win several awards at some twenty French and international festivals. We are linked to Italy by our origins and tastes, by the way we live there, by the sensuality of its landscapes. A small town on the Adriatic coast south of Rimini was the setting for our graduation film, and will again be the setting for the project we’re working on, a fiction film about a small French family’s chaotic beach vacation. We’re not twins, although some people sometimes think we are.”