Alongside the film retrospective and the other events part of Fellini 100, a project organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of renowned Italian Film Director Federico Fellini, the “Carnival in a Dream: The Federico Fellini Exhibition“, to be held from 27 November to 13 December at PMQ, will feature rare behind-the-scenes photos, film stills and posters, as well as FELLINI’s hand-drawn sketches on loan from Cineteca di Bologna.
Visitors will receive an exquisite coaster, while stocks last.
Twenty-three and a half films, twenty-seven screenplays, a countless number of drawings, caricatures, and sketches; half a century of inventions, from Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik) to Casanova, from I Vitelloni to Gradisca, from Marcello to Gelsomina, from Zampanò to Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits), from Via Veneto to Rex, from bidonisti to The Clowns… Fellini’s work largely contributed to nourishing our imagination. A heritage of imagination, intelligence and culture that encompasses lightness and depth.
The exhibition opens with the section “Fellini at work”, because Federico never stopped, working incessantly all life long. “It is curiosity that makes me wake up in the morning,” he used to say. Curiosity was his inexhaustible reserve of energy, which made him ubiquitous on the set, behind and in front of the camera, teaching his actors as well as non-actors to become the fictional characters he had in mind. In Fellini Satyricon, he seems to take the lines of his actors, explaining in a few seconds, frame by frame, how Fellini’s films are the work of a complete author.
The “Fellini / Mastroianni” section explores the relationship between these two giants, the playfulness and pleasure of these two men, mirroring each other. “Reality vs Cinema” and “Arts & Graphics” sections affirm his statement: “The only true realist is a visionary”. Fellini had constantly drawn on reality to feed his imagination, transforming his cinema into an infinite search for himself, and sharing it with millions of spectators around the world. Perhaps this is why his cinema remains necessary today.
– Gian Luca Farinelli, Director of Cineteca di Bologna –