27/08/2019
The writer and director who broke the mold, Enrico Ghezzi
On
Friday, August 30, at that hotbed of culture that is our Villa degli Autori,
Enrico Ghezzi in person transports the Giornate audiences to his world - a world for which he imagined the unimaginable, anticipated trends to come and dreamed up cult shows like
Blob, the late-1980s hit that became a byword for Italy's popular culture.
Today Ghezzi has joined forces with Malastradafilm, Zomia, and H12 - the merry band that has become his creative team of late - to develop a film using the material he has filmed over his thirty-year-long career on over five hundred video cassettes. Private life and master filmmakers; faces, places, journeys and critiques, are all packed into the same tapes: it's a new genre.
"Cinema is the first time the world gets a second look at itself," Ghezzi had mused a few years ago, here in Venice, as it happens. "So we all know it's not real, it's a bag of tricks […] It's a little setup - mechanical, banal, simple, and corruptible - but all that is needed for a second look." And his team adds: "We never cared about doing this film without living it or loving it. We never once thought of making this film for any other reason."
"Fuori orario brought a different kind of cinema to at least two generations of TV viewers," says Giorgio Gosetti. "Thanks to it, those late-night audiences discovered cinematic gems discarded by mainstream entertainment. We at Giornate are delighted to welcome the founder of this cultural revolution from the turn of the current century, so we can hear, in the words of someone whom we like to think marches to the beat of a different drummer, the story of his ‘next big thing': a new chapter in film history, and his own personal vision."
