Why not?
By Valentina Biondini, literature amateur
In the second episode of the “Who’s Next?” column, we are going to focus our imaginary camera on an Italian woman who successfully moved into the fields of screenplay and direction, in the first two decades of the last century. This woman goes under the name of Elvira Notari and she is universally known as the first Italian film director and one of the first in the world (together with Alice Guy-Blaché, French director and film producer). Read more
by Carole Dazzi e Romina Ciulli
Interview with the author of the short film presented at the Venice Film Festival.
On September 5th in the occasion of the 76a Venice International Film Festival, the Venice Production Bridge presented Il Futuro del Corto d’Autore, Autori Fedic di ieri e di oggi, within of which they played the short film La nascita di Zelda by Gabriele Gasparotti.
A man who runs, an incessant escape through fields, grassy expanses, heaps of sand. He runs in the daylight and in the dark of a night as red as blood. He multiplies himself and faces his alter ego, becoming protagonist and at the same time witness of a tormented struggle against himself and the visible and invisible world. From this derives an universe where reality and imagination fatally overlap. Read more