THE FIELD OF MIRACLES

By Michele BIZZI

KINEDIMORAE - as PROD

Black comedy - Completed 2018

Fox and Cat, thugs and best frenemies, are digging in the dark looking for Pinocchio’s coins, when they start to argue.

Festivals
& Awards

Cannes Mediterranean Film Festival 2019
Best Short Movie 2019
Visioni Italiane 2019
New York Movie Awards 2019
Best Picture
Los Angeles Cinematography Awards (LACA) 2019
Best Cinematography of a Short Film
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Black comedy, Comedy
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 9 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Michele BIZZI
    • Writer(s)
    • Alessia ROTONDO
    • Producer(s)
    • Claudia DI LASCIA (KINEDIMORAE)
    • Synopsis
    • Two thugs that no one would like to meet in a dark alley, roam around at night in an empty field dominated by a large and solitary tree. Their nicknames are Fox and Cat.
      Cat is reluctantly digging a hole in the ground, while Fox is watching the work in progress. They convinced Pinocchio to bury his gold coins there and now they are looking for them.
      Due to their opposite personalities, the clash between the two is inevitable: Fox is confident and arrogant, while Cat is submissive and has trouble controlling his anger. The chatter goes from one subject to another and each thread is a possible source of conflict, until something snaps and the tables are turned.
      A common quid pro quo between individuals of dubious morality can have unintended consequences, especially if one of them has a shovel in his hand...
      Only one thing is certain: neither of them wants to divide the loot buried by the naïve Pinocchio. Who will find the coins and keep them for himself?
      Field of Miracles is a three chapter short film, a contemporary spin-off of the very well known Italian fairytale by Collodi with a final twist that leads us somewhere in between Beckett and Tarantino, with a sharp criticism of the narrow mindedness in modern society's values.