Author: Luca Mosso and Giulio Sangiorgio (eds.)

Year: 2025

Pages: 191

Publisher: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; Minimum Fax

ISBN: 9788833896618

Description

The new series of «Bianco e nero» opens with an issue dedicated to the incubator of the best recent Italian cinema: the documentary, or—as it was once called—the cinema of the real. Not a genre, but a set of practices that move beyond the cinematic screen: from the essay film to the first-person diary, from the portrait to true crime. And from cinema to galleries, from television to new media. Every documentary is a stance toward the world, an aesthetic and ethical choice that interrogates the relationship between the filmmaker, the subject, and the viewer.

Over the past twenty-five years, Italian documentaries have navigated History and its traumas—from the G8 in Genoa to the pandemic—questioning how to portray power, mediated reality, migration, and the self. They have renewed their forms, engaging with the masters of the past and offering tools to authors such as Pietro Marcello, Alina Marazzi, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Michelangelo Frammartino, and Alice Rohrwacher.

This volume seeks to convey the complexity of a creative and critical ecosystem, from practices to theories, from schools to funding institutions. A mosaic of images that continue to teach us how to see.