The World of Luigi Ghirri
Introduction
"The documentary is developed with the way of looking that Ghirri He himself suggested and taught us with his photographs: to develop an environmental vision, which is an emotional way of looking at things." (Gianni Celati)
Synopsis
The World of Luigi Ghirri It is a story about Ghirri's research, a celebration of his life and works that takes as its focal point the small theatre of the Fontanellato castle – as if attending a show – and Ghirri's house in the Roncocesi countryside.
For Ghirri, the castle of Fontanellato represented a place of worship.
In fact, here there is a “camera obscura” from the early nineteenth century, where images of the square are reflected through a hole, inverted as in a photographic lens.
For Ghirri this was proof that photography is not just a modern technical invention, but a very ancient idea of vision.
From the “camera obscura” of Fontanellato Castle, the images take flight on a journey through the Reggio Emilia countryside, preserving the sense of an ongoing exploration.
The plains and the typical architecture of those areas are the key that allows us to understand the spirit of the place, a spirit that manifests itself openly when the group of friends gathers for an open-air banquet, on a spring evening, on the banks of the Po, with a projection of Ghirri's photographs...
Film info
Screenplay: GIANNI CELATI
Photography and filming: LAMBERTO BORSETTI, PAOLO MURAN, GUGLIELMO ROSSI
Sound: STEVE MARKS and STEFANO BARNABA
Editing: LAMBERTO BORSETTI
Digital Camera Control: Giuseppe Bonazzi, Filippo David, Francesco Logulla, Gianluca Valdiserra
Music: GUY KLUCEVSK (Angelica 1994, Cai-Cai editions)
Production Secretary: MICHELA ROSSI
Production Assistant: TIZIANA CORNETI
Organization: LUCA BUELLI
Production: PIERROT AND THE ROSE
(in order of appearance)
ALBERTO SIRONI, ERMANNO CAVAZZONI, MARIANNE
SCHNEIDER, GIANNI CELATI, ILARIA GHIRRI, MAURIZIO MAGRI,
GIORGIO MESSORI, BRUNELLA TORRESIN, JEAN TALON,
LEDA CALZA, CRISTINA LASAGNI, GIUSEPPE RICHERI,
MASSIMO MUSSINI, DANIELE DE LONTI, ALESSANDRO PELLI,
UGO CORNIA, CATERINA SPADA, FIORENZO BOMBARDINI,
IVAN LEVRINI, STEFANO BARNABA, MICHELINA BORSARI,
VITTORIO SAVI, LUCA CARBONI, CARLO FELTRINELLI,
DANIELE BENATI, SAM WHITTSITT,
JOSEPH DALAI (KNOWN AS "GRINGO"), ALFREDO GIANOGLIO,
MARILINA DI STASI, GIANNI LEONE, ATTILIO CONCARI,
ROBERTA GHIRRI, MARIA EDRIA TOFFOLI, ALBERTO FERLENGA,
LUCIANO BARALDI, DAVIDE FERRARIO, MANUELA TEATINI,
PAOLA GHIRRI-BORGONZONI, ANNA D'ELIA,
ELENA BORGONZONI
and in addition:
PAOLO GANDOLFI, ALBA BALDI, FRANCA BERGAGNOLI,
LAURA GERONAZZO, SARA VECCHIETTI, ADELE GHIRRI,
FIORELLA BALZANI, MARIO LUPANO, MARIA LUISA FRISA,
GIANNI GIANNI CELATI, PAOLO PAGNONI, ANTONELLO GIORGI,
ANNE GOY, ENRICO BASCHIERI
and others with background voices.
Festival
Camera's films
The Mexican suitcase
The World of Luigi Ghirri
Paolo Ventura – Vanishing Man
Horst
On top of the world
Turin Film Festival – the selection of Streeen
Lucus a lucendo
Uppercut Sonata
Now I know Snow
Where everything is
The "cool" of the regime
I would do it again tomorrow
Maximum respect
Reflections on the big toe
Two or three things
Timeless
I was making nugatine
Before Berlusconi
The fighter
The World of Luigi Ghirri
Erri De Luca after Genoa
Zone 18 Limon, Guatemala
Octavio Mario Mai
Requiem
Miss Effe
Rata neće biti (There will be no war)
We are not like James Bond
Sanperè
Without asking permission
The body of the duce
Something About Us
ANAPESON
Walking with Red Rhino
Here
Gipo, the gypsy of Barriera
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