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Michelangelo Antonioni

Ferrara, IT, 1912 – 2007, Rome, IT

Gente del Po, 1943 – 1947 Documentary, 9 min Dvd version

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“Po di Volano belongs to the landscape of my early childhood. To the Po of my youth. The men who would pass on the levees, dragging along the barges with a rope at a slow, rhythmic pace; and later the same barges dragged along in a convoy by a tugboat, with the women intent on cooking, the men at the helm, the hens, the cloths hanging out – true wandering houses, touching. They were images of the world of which, little by little, I was becoming conscious. That landscape, which until then had been a landscape of things, motionless and solitary – the muddy water, full of whirlpools, the rows of poplars that would get lost in the fog, the Isola Bianca which, in the middle of the river at Pontelagoscuro, divided the current in two – that landscape was moving, it was filling up with people and regaining strength. The things themselves were claiming a different attention, acquiring a different significance. Looking at them in a new way, I was taking control of them. Beginning to understand the world through the image, I was understanding the image, its force, its mystery. As soon as it was possible for me to do so, I returned to those places with a camera. This is how Gente del Po (People of the Po Valley) was born. Everything that I did after that, good or bad as it was, started from there”1.


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ADAM BUDAK: "PRINCIPLE HOPE"

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