Until 20th January, the initiatives dedicated to Fellini, "Fellinianno 2013", will keep on taking place in Rimini, with exhibitions, meetings, movies and documentaries, performances, launches of publications, with the participation of famous people who shared a collaboration or even a friendship with the “Maestro”. Of all these initiatives, the exhibition “Fellini all’opera” (Fellini at work) is certainly the most important event in the Secon part of the programme dedicated to the Maestro.


The exhibition is set in the suggestive spaces of Galli Theatre, entitled to the composer Amintore Galli and now under renovation.
The set-up is by the designer Mario Brattella with the collaboration of Erasmo Massetti and Giuseppe Ricci’s archival researches. The aim is to transform the spaces and the main architectural elements of the theatre (such as foyers, stairs, and the Ressi room) into scenes recollecting “fellinian” visions and dreams, a sort of a great magic lantern.
Inside this surprising form, interpreters and artists of images, sounds and words re-write an re-invent photos, books, costumes and images, in a series of actions whose main characters are the artists themselves and their works: “Federico Fellini. I libri” by Rosita Copioli; “Unfinished Fellini” by Marco Bertozzi, Massimo Salvucci and Andrea Felli; the kinematictriptych by David Loom; “Le parti non vere” by Diego Zuelli; the project “Il visionario è l’unico vero realista/2” by Ambra Galassi, Giacomo De Luca, Andrea Marini, Stefano Aguzzini, Andrea Felli and Angela Piegari.

kinematictriptych
figurative installation
Conception, shootings, edition, original musics, construction and set-up by David Loom

It is a self-built electronic device, made up by 100 original microfilms which converge in a circular cinematographic triptyque, resembling a dreamlike merry-go-round where light and mirrors lead visions and animated scenery in a Pindaric flight. The modus operandi and the dreamlike Fellini’s  phantasmagorical imagery.become the incentive and the suggestion for other personal and visionary re-interpretations, in a work where the known places become some other things and the fiction become credible. The executive ability of one person only playfully meditates on the artistic action and the intellectual vivacity of a character who was able to inspire loads of generation in the world.

about kinematictriptych
David Loom
Some notes, preparatory annotations and pictures of the making of kinematictriptych

Federico Fellini. I libri
video e set-up by Rosita Copioli
The video tells how and where the books enters Fellini’s movies. Starting from passions and meetings, it analyses eleven movies focusing on their relationship with literature: Il miracolo (1948), Il bidone (1955), La dolce vita (1959), Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio (Boccaccio ’70 episode, 1962), Toby Dammit (episode from Tre passi nel delirio, 1968), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Il Casanova by Federico Fellini (1976), Prova d’orchestra (1979), E la nave va (1983), Intervista (1988), La voce della luna (1990).

All Fellini’s books exposed there come from his library in Corso Italia in Rome and now belong to Francesca Fabbri Fellini. They document Fellini’s relationship with those writers who have been an inspiration for his movies, or those who were his own friends, and with the figures who defended and fed his imagination, from Carl Gustav Jung to Ernst Bernhard. Moreover, these books also reveal Fellini’s interests, such as detective stories, fantasy, mythology, psychology, psycanalysis, esoterism, oriental religions, circus shows, variety shows, cartoon. Most of all, each one of them shows his confidence in the symbols which inhabit his own dreams.

Le parti non vere
Video installation by Diego Zuelli
“Le parti non vere” refers to Fellini’s typical interlarding the reality of the narrated parts of his movies with memories and petrifying inventions of both characters and directors. Some forms, inspired to possible elements appearing in the movies, are built by computer design 3d and are shown through framings and settings which seem to be in contrast because of a cause/effect relationship and a spatial dislocation, or in a sort of backstage and photos on stage. Diego Zuelli examine the computer design 3d effort to verisimilitude and adhesion to the reality and, in contrast with this, its own fiction, present even in its own making. The title of the video simply describes the images, leaving to the spectator the task “not” to guess which are the non-true parts (“le parti non vere”).

Unfinished Fellini
Conception and direction by Marco Bertozzi
Shooting and editing by Massimo Salvucci
Music and sounds by Andrea Felli
A found footage movie realised with the documentary materials by Rai Teche and the photos by Davide Minghini, taken on the set of Amarcord and kept in the photo archive in the Municipal Library of Rimini. “Unfinished Fellini” mixes movie frames and pictures in order to offer a poetic evocation of the Maestro from Rimini. The result is a narration of a non-stop work in which Fellini plunges and by which he is totally absorbed. Like some construction sites, his set become his natural habitat, and also a unique experience for the troupe and all those who happen to live them. A magic and whispered atmosphere that the reuse of “Unfinished Fellini” tries to re-offer. A cross-eyed vision created to evoke something indissoluble but not suddenly perceivable: the relationship between the Maestro and his boroughs, Rimini and Cinecittà. That’s why Fellini and his troupe are always on scene, ready to immortalize the eternal coming and going of a personal cosmogony, the eternal show by the most genial “citizen of the cinematograph” Italy has ever had.

Il visionario è l’unico vero realista/2
Project by Angela Piegari and Andrea Felli
visual design by Ambra Galassi and Giacomo De Luca - Officina Otomops
motion graphic by Andrea Marini for Officina Otomops
music and sounds by Andrea Felli
mix e mastering by Andrea Felli - Farmhouse Studio, Rimini
sculptor Stefano Aguzzoni
A dreamlike space dedicated to the great director from Rimini: the world seen through his eyes, totally engaged by the images and the sounds, in order to explore the “fellinian” un/reality. The space is animated by lights and shadows, while words and sounds give life to a poetic and fascinating narration, which interlaces mystery and reality, tragedy and comedy. The installation “Il visionario è l’unico vero realista/2”, from an idea by Angela Piegari and Andrea Felli, allows the public to enter the language, the sounds and the visions thanks to which Fellini was able to turn reality into imagination and imagination into reality. Other people who participated to the artistic production are Ambra Galassi and Giacomo De Luca – Officina Otomops, Stefano Aguzzoni created the sculpture, Andrea Marini the motion graphics and the sounds are by Andrea Felli. Thanks to the collaboration of Marco Bertozzi, the installation was enriched with rare and precious materials.
The exhibition is open until 6th January 2014
Time: 10am – 1pm, 4pm – 7.30pm; closet on Monday


Other dates dedicated to Fellini are:

Friday 22nd November (at 9pm), in Cineteca, it will be broadcast in a re-edited and restored version of “Seguendo la nave” by Fellini, the backstage that Ferruccio Castronuovo, a collaborator of the Maestro, shot on the set of “La nave va”.

From 28th November to 20th January, at the Palazzo del Podestà, there will be again “I disegni del Libro dei Sogni”, an exhibition born from an idea by Felice Laudadio, the director od Bif&st in Bari, and by Francesca Fabbri Fellini, the Maestro’s nephew. The exposition shows one of the countless possible ways of immersion in that fascinating abyss of images, feelings and suggestions represented by Federico Fellini’s Book of Dreams (Libro dei Sogni), which is permanently exposed at the City Museum.

Friday 6th December (at 9pm), in the City Museum (Sala del Giudizio), Gianfranco Angelucci, scriptwriter of “Intervista” and friend to Fellini, will present his latest book “Segreti e bugie di Federico Fellini”. An editorial event which will be the starting point of a dialogue between the author and the writer Marco Missiroli.

Sunday 15th December (at 9pm), few weeks before the preview at Festival del Cinema of Rome, the Atti Theatre will present “L’altro Fellini”, the documentary movie by Stefano Bisulli and Roberto Naccari whose main character is not Federico Fellini but, for the first time, his younger brother, Riccardo, whose dreams to become a director were shattered because of that heavy surname, after his debut with “Storie sulla sabbia”. The two directors will be present at the event.

The last date takes place on Saturday 21st December (at 9pm), at the Surgery’s Domus. It is a show by Loris Pellegrini and based on the conference “Le lingue di Federico”, with Mirco Gennari, Francesca Airaudo, Giorgia Penzo and Francesco Tonti, which belongs to the programme of “Biblioterapia 2013” and which was born from a Fabio Bruschi’s intuition, “Lingue di confine”.


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