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Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi

I Want to Go Mad, Raving Mad -L.E.N.Z.-

Fiction | hdv | black and white | 379:19 | Tunisia | 2016

A walk across the mountains leads a stranger to a charitable family. During his stay, the stranger tries to lead a harmonious lifestyle, but soon he is caught by the chaos of life. “ want to go mad, a raving mad ” is the story of a schizophrenic writer. From Lenz by G. Büchner, emerges an anonymous silhouette to cross the chaos. It draws an escape route which is incessantly made and unmade. Lenz is a story of nameless wanderings.

Mauro Mazzocchi, born in 1986 in Italy, holds two degrees in Philosophy and Theater. He is an independent producer and director. As an independent movie maker, he collaborates with Yosr Gasmi in the writing, making and production of their first long-feature film, Θέλω, θέλω μανῆναι -L.E.N.Z.- . Yosr Gasmi, born in 1984 in Tunisia, is a graduate of French language and literature from Paris-Sorbonne University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Tunis. She has a particular interest int the image, under its diverse artistic and scriptural expressions. As an independent director, she collaborates with Mauro Mazzocchi in the writing, making and production of their first long feature film Θέλω, θέλω μανῆναι -L.E.N.Z.- . Y. G-MM- The two directors consider themselves as a technical and expressive multiplicity. They work together in the solitude of their reflection, hence taking care of all the aspects of cinematographic production, making and post-production. It is from this technical plurality that is born the sense of experimentation with a creation free from functional fragmentation and from hierarchy, shaped at the image of a body free from organs