In Natural Resistance, director Jonathan Nossiter combines his love for wine, cinema and Italy. A former sommelier, Nossiter previously made Mondovino, documenting how globalizing trends threaten to drive out distinctive wines. He didn’t foresee returning to the topic until last summer when he found himself in Tuscany, seated with Italian winemakers dedicated to resisting the prevalent use of chemicals. Joining them was Gian Luca Farinelli, a crusader for film preservation and the director of Cineteca di Bologna. Their conversation, in Nossiter’s words, was “joyously anarchic and personal” –one might say: Italian–, drawing connections between film culture and agriculture. Nossiter instinctively turned on his camera and continued to follow these subjects against the sun-kissed backdrop of Italian vineyards. And there’s also a complementary thread of discussion with the Cineteca director Farinelli, who struggles against the erasure of film history. TP
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P: Jonathan Nossiter, Paula Prandini, Santiago Amigorena, Giacomo Claudio Rossi
CP: Les Films du Rat, Prodigy, Goatworks Films, Cineteca di Bologna
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An American and Brazilian citizen, he was born in Washington D. Cans currently resides in Rome. Some of his works as director are Resident Alien (1991; Berlín), Searching for Arthur (1998; Locarno), Making Mischief, Losing the Thread (botf in 2001 and screened in Rotterdam),and Mondovino (2004; Cannes).
