After "Tim, the eternal child of Burbank" and, also in collaboration with the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, the publishing house Bakemono Lab and Roman director/illustrator Stefano Bessoni bring to bookstores "Greenaway - Death and Decay of Cinema.", a volume dedicated to Peter Greenaway, the director of the The cook, the thief, his wife and the mistress and The Venus Zoo.
Greenaway - Death and Decay of Cinema. has already been available in bookstores and online stores since June 20.
Con il suo stile riconoscibile e personale, Stefano Bessoni continua a raccontare le vite e le opere di straordinari autori della settima arte, scrivendo e illustrando speciali quaderni di cinema che sono un po' racconti biografici, un po' filmografie illustrate ma di certo volumi capaci di trasmettere meraviglia e coinvolgimento.
Secondo Domenico De Gaetano, Direttore del Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino: «This volume by Stefano Bessoni is an absolutely original guide to delve into the "controlled complexity" of Greenaway's cinema... Between grain and pixels, paper and pencil, the narrative proceeds in parallel between the interpretation of his films and the creation of the drawings, to highlight what Greenaway was able to nurture and enrich with his artist's gaze, to celebrate the death of "a" cinema and the birth of much more".
Per l'autore, Stefano Bessoni, Greenaway - Death and Decay of Cinema. è "A notebook of notes, reflections and illustrations on Peter Greenaway, the one who made me realize that a film is nothing but an unlimited container in which to lock up concepts, theories and obsessions. He is one of the most important authors of contemporary cinema, an artist who feeds on painting, writing, music, theater, dance and every form of expression imaginable. His complex, encyclopedic and contrived cinema is an endless creative game that winks at Lewis Carroll, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, a fairy-tale, often cruel, bewildering territory in which to stray to explore the most unexpected facets of the human soul, intellect and body".
- GREENAWAY - Death and Decay of Cinema.
Author: Stefano Bessoni
Publisher: Bakemono Lab Editions, in collaboration with the National Cinema Museum of Turin
Cover: Stefano Bessoni
Preface: Domenico De Gaetano
Specifications: Hardcover hardback, 17 x 24 cm format, 120 pages; Text in Italian and English
Available June 20
