This is not a lecture but more a free speech, an invitation to a cinematic journey. This journey starts with a question: which is the goal of someone who wants to make a film? In my opinion it’s not the need to give an information. For me cinema has a different aim, like art and poetry. It has to evoke, to create emotions, to ask questions. In this sense, the desire to construct an “image” refers to the possibility of filming the visible in order to capture the unseen. That’s to say, filming man to refer to humanity, filming the body to perceive the soul. In the end, it is a question of filming the “invisible”. And what is more invisible than breath, that rules the essence of life, not only life on Earth, but life in the universe? Films are made of light and sound; and try to reproduce life. And in order to reproduce life, they have to catch the breath of the world. Breath is a sign of life. But breath is not the same for everyone. So also each film should find its breath, mixing the breath of the real life, captured by the camera and the mics, and the breath of the one who is filming this reality. So a film is alive if it’s breathing with its own breath. In this journey we will see some different breathes and some different ways to try to film the “invisible”…

biografia

Luciano Barisone is an Italian journalist and film critic. Graduated in Literature and Ethnology. Collaborator of the Venice and Locarno festivals (1997-2010). Director of the Infinity - Alba International Film Festival (2002-2007), the Festival dei Popoli in Florence (2008-2010) and the Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland (2011-2017). He is currently art producer, international consultant, and analyst for new film projects. Between 1997 and 2023 he was a jury member at over thirty international film festivals.

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