Fourteen masters of Italian cinema exhibit the drawings, paintings, visual notes, and photographs – some of them for the first time – that illuminate and give testament to the creative journey made during the ideation and realization of their films.
The different approaches underlie different conceptions of the creative work, which implies taking different stands, setting up different production economies, and setting goals more or less markedly oriented to research and experimentation – all of which is likely to resurface in the actual films.
De/Signs can tell the time of imagination before or after shooting and editing as well as the journeys of the mind that may depart from a sign, a dream, or an intuition. From time to time and from medium to medium, these can enhance further explorations and outcomes.
Directors: Marco Bellocchio, Giovanni Columbu, Alberto Fasulo, Michelangelo Frammartino, Matteo Garrone, Carlo S. Hintermann, Pietro Marcello, Mario Martone, Maurizio Nichetti, Stefano Odoardi, Enrico Pau, Franco Piavoli, Ettore Scola, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani
Cagliari, Musei Civici, July - September 2015
The De/Sign of cinema. The genesis of a project
Anna Maria Montaldo
The De/Sign of Cinema. Re-inventing the World
Giona A. Nazzaro
Designing Openness
Daniele Dottorini
Marco Bellocchio. Inner Drawings
Anton Giulio Mancino
Giovanni Columbu. Design, the Unconscious of Cinema
Domenico Monetti
Alberto Fasulo. The Line of Boundary and the Margin of Inclusion
Beatrice Fiorentino
Michelangelo Frammartino. Beyond the Trees, Across the River
Chicca Bergonzi
The Dance Between De/Sign and Filmed Image
Giona A. Nazzaro
Matteo Garrone. Painting the Silence
Andrea Bruni
The Sign of Makinarium
Giona A. Nazzaro, Marzia Marino
Carlo S. Hintermann. The Animated Sign
Gemma Lanzo
Pietro Marcello. Recondite Illuminations and the Fickle Gesture
Daniela Persico
Mario Martone. Atlases
Bruno Roberti
Maurizio Nichetti. The Transparent Sign
Massimo Causo
Stefano Odoardi. The Multiplicity of Perception
Cristina Piccino
The Sign and the Emptiness
Giona A. Nazzaro
Enrico Pau. The Films Dreamed
Mariella Cruciani
Franco Piavoli. Taking the Finite to Infinite
Cecilia Ermini
Ettore Scola. Cartoonist of Cinema
Piero Spila
Paolo e Vittorio Taviani. The “materials” of the Taviani Brothers
Bruno Torri
Lina Nerli, Witness of Working Between Doing and Ethics
Giona A. Nazzaro, Marzia Marino
Biographies
Selected Bibliography
