Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Benzina idea was born one evening driving the car while I was returning home, traveling about twenty kilometers of provincial roads totally surrounded by wheat fields. That evening I noticed a petrol station. The grass growing on the tarmac, the faded, ripped and fluttering red and white bands that indicated the out of service gas pump station made me speculate that it had been closed for a few years. The booth on the side of the square was small, smeared and old newspapers covered the windows to obscure the inside: from that moment on, I have done nothing but imagine the guy who worked there. From all these thoughts comes the character of Vincenzo and consequently the need to tell it. I've always been very attracted to gas stations. As a child, they meant to me a short break on my father'slong journey to Puglia: moments that are sweet memories for me. The distributors are often isolated, places where you go only by chance or if you have to: they are a small world unto themselves where everything else runs fast alongside them. I wanted to create a world apart, with its own rhythm and identity. With this approach I want to create Benzina by bringing out all the complexities of Vincenzo that suddenly impact to make him another unexpected Vincenzo.