By Giorgio Di Marzo
Where is Italian cinema going? For sure every year The Times BFI London Film Festival attracts a good deal of Italian filmmakers and their films, and this it hosted directors (and their films) such as, strictly in alphabetical order: Andrea Adriatico (Andreas and Me), Saverio Costanzo (In Memory of Me), Daniele Lucchetti (My Brother Is an Only Child), Salvatore Maira (Valzer), Alina Marazzi (We Want Roses Too), Ermanno Olmi (One Hundred Nails), Ferzan Ozpetek (Saturn in Opposition), Silvio Soldini (Days and Clouds) e Gianni Zanasi (Don’t Think About it).
Definitely a few big names, but in this case we would like to stress that Italian cinema has created, and the LFF has highlighted, a new talent: Ursula Ferrara. Not exactly new, but new to the masses as in Italy shorts films, especially when lasting just a handful of seconds, are the neglect brothers of feature films, despite Ursula has won a plethora of prices all around the world, but you know: nemo propheta in patria…
Ursula Ferrara is an author in its true meaning as she makes everything by herself and by her hands: she is a painter, a poet, a painter, a composer… She started off with animation cinema – yes, animation cinema is cinema! – in 1986 with Lucidi Folli, an erotic dream, and has been going through other seven shorts with a mixture of contemporary visual art, moving humanity, a colorful Sunday breakfast, the place we live in, a football match were football is missing, a personal breaking-news journal. All her shorts were screened, at the LFF, before other Italian films: a tasty introduction to savoury films!
This is Ursula’s complete filmography:
Lucidi Folli (1986), Past Future (1988), Asymmetrical Feel (1990), As People (1995), Almost Nothing (1997), Five Rooms (1999), The Match (2002), News (2006).
But it is high time to talk about “serious” cinema, so I would like to point out our interviews to two Italian directors: Andrea Adriatico and Gianni Zanasi. To watch the interviews please go to: www.giorgiostudio.co.uk/eng/videos.htm.
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