Credits
Written and Directed by
Roberta Cortese
From
The Odyssey in Six Sonnets by Barbara Hamby
Producers
Federico Biasin, Giorgio Ferrero, Rodolfo Mongitore, Marco Quartana
Co-Producer
Roberta Cortese
Creative Producers
Federico Biasin & Giorgio Ferrero
Executive Producer
Giorgio Ferrero
With
SIMONA NASI
as the Siren Leucosia
SARA D’AMARIO
as Circe
OLIVIA MANESCALCHI
as Penelope
FRANCESCA VETTORI
as Anticlea
IRENE IVALDI
as Calypso
VIOLA SARTORETTO
as Nausicaa
GIANLUCA GAMBINO
as Odysseus
Assistant Director, Editor, VFX
Carlo Cagnasso
Director of Photography
Niccolò Arcostanzo
Color Correction
Davide Santilli
Music by
Rodolfo Mongitore & Giorgio Ferrero
Voice
Roberta Cortese
Script Consultant
Luigi Chiarella
Development Manager
Margot Mecca
Production Coordinator
Cristina Sangiorgio
Set Design
Roberta Cortese & Cristina Ugo
Costumes
Roberta Cortese & Alessandra Berardi
Make-Up
Silvia Galeazzo
Camera Assistant
Matteo Moretti
Production Runner
Alessandro Rapisarda
Production Sound
Marco Marasciuolo & Rodolfo Mongitore
Sound Design
Nadir Naji
Mix
Giorgio Ferrero & Rodolfo Mongitore
Post-Production Studio
MYBOSSWAS, Turin
Title Design
Arianna Grasso
Location
Villa Bona, Carignano (Turin)
Catering
La Mosca Bianca – Taste Experience
“Sirens’ Song”
Text by Barbara Hamby
Music by Giorgio Ferrero & Rodolfo Mongitore
Voice by Roberta Cortese
Special Thanks to
Museo di Storia Naturale Don Bosco
A film by
Roberta Cortese
Odysseus has reinvented himself as a manfluencer and fills social media with his macho stories. He is recording a video in front of an abandoned building when he is interrupted by the siren Leucosia, who takes away his phone. Odysseus flees into the building, Leucosia follows him, and there she finds the women of the Odyssey: Nausicaa, Circe, and Calypso. She films their accounts, revealing a very different version of the myth. Odysseus is scolded by his mother, then the women gather around Penelope, whose final video message overturns the myth.
The short film develops from the irreverent poems of Barbara Hamby’s The Odyssey in Six Sonnets. Roberta Cortese sets the story in an abandoned palace, occupied by women united by centuries of resistance to the Odyssey’s patriarchal rhetoric, who inhabit rooms evocative of their islands. The narrative, characterized by subjective shots and a powerful soundscape, follows the siren’s journey as her “tell-all interviews” reveal the women’s strength and independence from the man, Odysseus.
With the support of
Creative Europe Media
Film Commission Piemonte
MIC
Stadt Wien Kultur
Federal Ministry Republic of Austria / Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
