“My approach to the set remains that of a photojournalist ready to catch a gesture, an expression”. The Neapolitan photographer describes his work on the set, a microcosm where reality meets the imaginary, fantasy flows into reality and innumerable stories of photography, echoes of the cinematographic tale, are generated.
A journey through the sets of pornographic movies, behind the scenes of a parallel world that reveals itself in its paradoxical, everyday life. De Luigi moves on the edge of cinematographic representation, unveiling the complicated reality of the staging and dwelling on unusual personal aspects of the protagonists.
The actor, an established photographer, tells us how a lifelong passion for photography was born, which allowed him to capture, in an original way, moments of life on set. A surprising black and white visual album, which offers a spontaneous vision of the “behind the scenes” in countless films.
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.
The photographs of young Kubrick as a brilliant and promising photojournalist for the magazine “Look”, before starting a career in filmmaking: a precious testimony of the precocious and extraordinary narrative ability of the future director.
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.
Woven with familiar and archival footage as well as images shot by the author in Venice, the film shows a sensitivity to the image close to photography. To photography as an introspective practice, as self-knowledge through the places that led the director to investigate both his father and the city.
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.
From photography to cinema: the stages and the brilliant pioneers that led to the birth of the seventh art.
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