Gianluca is a true friend; with him, you can play seriously and imagine getting into mischief together that I've always wanted.
On November twentieth two years ago, Gianluca Farinelli, who directs the Cineteca of Bologna, inaugurated the Modernissimo cinema, a magnificent old hall that had been under restoration for ten years. A few weeks earlier, I told Gianluca that I would like to choose a film from those scheduled every day, design a poster, print it, and place it at the entrance of the Modernissimo. One poster a day for a year. Gianluca said, let's do it.
Among the five or six films shown each day, one had to be chosen, watched, studied, and an image sought. Sometimes it surfaced immediately, and other times it honestly seemed impossible. Restored archeological films, premieres, cartoons, comedies, documentaries, truly iconic images that are in our memory and sentimental appointments with films that have changed me, my girlfriend's favorite, my brother's, my closest friends.
Every day, I had a different reason to go to the table and engage with a fragment of cinematography, drawing in color to search for the lights and the reasons behind this cosmogony of stories that have come to life from a human chorus made up of voices that are surprising and unique to me. Stefano Ricci
We will be expertly welcomed by Chiara Alpago Novello at 9:30 for breakfast with coffee, tea, all the good things needed to start the day right: cookies, yogurt and cheeses, fruit jams, and whatever the morning and the season inspire, all from 0 km. At 12:30 a light lunch, greetings, and toast. In between, chit-chat, questions, and great ideas. As much as you want.
