After "Tim, l’eterno fanciullo di Burbank" and, again in collaboration with the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, the publishing house Bakemono Lab and the roman director/illustrator Stefano Bessoni bring to bookstores "Greenaway – Morte e decomposizione del cinema", a volume dedicated to Peter Greenaway, the director of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and "A Zed & Two Noughts".
Greenaway – Morte e decomposizione del cinema is already available in bookstores and online stores from June 20.
With his recognizable and personal style, Stefano Bessoni continues to chronicle the lives and works of extraordinary authors of the seventh art, writing and illustrating special film notebooks that are a bit biographical stories, and illustrated filmographies but certainly they are volumes capable of conveying wonder and involvement.
According to Domenico De Gaetano, Director of the National Cinema Museum of Turin, "This volume by Stefano Bessoni is an absolutely original guide to delve into the 'controlled complexity' of Greenaway's cinema. Leafing through its pages, one traces Greenaway's life and career, his influences and obsessions...
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 eye, to celebrate the death of "a" cinema and the birth of much more".
For the author, 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 - Morte e decomposizione del 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