Sometimes a short film is worth a thousand words… this is the case of a film, created and produced at School of Theater and Cinema of Genoa Zuccherarte founded in 2009 by film-makers Marco Di Gerlando and Ludovica Gibelli. With the work entitled Johnin just over 4 minutes, we learn a very simple lesson about gaming, education, gender stereotypes and prejudice
Giovanni is a 6 year old boy, he is going to the park with his mother. The child pushes a stroller on which a doll is placed. The mother is busy on a phone call, so she shows her son a bench where he can sit and wait for her. On this bench there is also a gentleman in his 60s who is reading a newspaper. The gentleman is amazed to see the child taking care of a doll, and begins to talk to him…
Marco Di Gerlando and Ludovica Gibelli they shot this short film addressing the theme of gender stereotypes with the right “lightness”, with style and class, without shouting or holding “cinematic rallies”. It is no coincidence that he has won numerous national and international awards. Certainly because the theme of sexism is expressed, in this polite and measured film, through the questioning of roles: feminine and masculine merge, creating confusion in the mind of a mature man who, in the end, sees all his prejudices collapse in front of a child’s games.
The story told is taken from an event that actually happened in Piedmont.
