INTERSECTIONS – BETWEEN CINEMA AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Two closely intertwined forms of visual communication, which use an optical device to capture a portion of reality and return it to an outside viewer. Photography talks by freezing time in an image, a movie expresses the passage of time by multiplying photographs, or frames that, set in succession, generate the illusion of movement. “Photography is truth and cinema is truth 24 times per second,” said Jean-Luc Godard, underlining how inextricably linked the two arts are. A bond strong from the beginning, when the frames per second were 16 – not 24 like today – and the films were silent, like photographs.

Similar, although clearly distinct from the point of view of perception, purpose, involvement and for the emotions they are able to stir, the two expressive forms have pursued different paths, although never completely losing sight of each other, exchanging aesthetic inspirations, theoretical reflections, suggestions and visions, drawing from each other in a game of references and correspondences. Numerous authors have experimented with both languages, professionally or just following their passion, have been influenced by the “sister” art or, of it, they have told aspects, stories and situations: directors (and actors), photographers (set and otherwise) who have been able to explore the edges of each art, sometimes revealing, or building, unexpected realities.

Photography according to Hitchcock

Forty years after the death of the master of suspense director, an exhibition traces his career through set and backstage photographs taken at Universal Pictures films. One of which, a timeless masterpiece, has as its protagonist not only crime, but also photography.

Wim Wenders – Polaroid stories

Acclaimed director and also an internationally renowned photographer, between the Sixties and the Eighties, Wenders learned the art of cinema and found in the Polaroid a perfect complementary element to his research. With which he “plays” to describe places, spaces, encounters, obsessions.

Time and memory in Andrei Tarkovsky’s photography

Andrei A. Tarkovsky, son of the great Russian director, talks about his father’s intense relationship with Polaroid, which he used on set and in his private life. An irreplaceable travel companion, a visual notebook, a tool to freeze a fragment of reality, to stop time and project it into an infinite and absolute space.