Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 47'
A sudden shower causes a temporary suspension of electricity during the director Luciano Emmer's visit to the Pamphili Collection. An art critic, who encouraged the setting up of the collection, takes the director into the dark suites of the exhibition hall. In the darkness, there's only the luminous eye of the torch that keeps accompanying us around, following the two men, bringing us to the discovery of carved and painted sculptures that are materialising in this night reverie. A relentlessly wide open eye makes us (over)see, makes us catch a full sight. This is a situation reminiscent of Galleria Borhese visited by Emmer in the night and here "dreamt" by the director while coming clean in front of the critic. How beautiful are, by night, the Pamphili Collection and the Galleria Borghese. Then, everything is swallowed up by darkness, "by gloomy(ness), neologism".
"Bella di notte, Bella di notte. I kept re-playing Luciano Emmer Bella di notte tape on and on…" (Elisabetta Sgarbi).
Biography
film director
Elisabetta Sgarbi
(Ferrara, Italy) is the creator and director of the publishing house La nave di Teseo. She created and for nineteen years has been the artistic director of the festival La Milanesiana, dedicated to literature, music, cinema, science, art, philosophy, and theatre. Since 1999 she has been the director and producer of her films, which were often presented at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Frammenti di una biografia per versi e voce (cm, 1999), Projeto meninos de luz (cm, 2000), (non sempre) merci beaucoup (cm, 2000), La consolazione e la spina dolorosa (cm, 2001), Alladin Flash(-back) (cm, 2001), Belle di notte (mm, 2001), La notte che si sposta - Gianfranco Ferroni (mm, 2002), Rue de Varenne (cm, 2002), Notte senza fine (2004), Due contro una (mm, doc., 2005), NevicheRò (2006), Il pianto della statua (mm, 2007), L’ultima salita - La Via Crucis di Beniamino Simoni (doc., 2009), Deserto Rosa - Luigi Ghirri (doc., 2009), Cosa è l’avanguardia? (doc., 2011), L’invenzione di Ariosto - Tullio Pericoli (doc., 2011), Racconti d’amore (2013), Per soli uomini (2014), Il pesce siluro è innocente (2014), Colpa di comunismo (doc., 2015), La lingua dei furfanti (cm, doc., 2016), L’altrove più vicino. Un viaggio in Slovenia (mm, doc., 2017), Extraliscio - Punk da Balera (doc., 2020), Vittorio Sgarbi In un tempo fuori dal tempo (doc., 2022).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Elisabetta Sgarbi.
Director of photography: Elio Bisignani.
Editor: Luciano Marenzoni.
Cast: Luciano Emmer, Vittorio Sgarbi.
Production company: Betty Wrong, via Ceradini 3, 20129 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-50952666, fax +39-02-76110882, e-mail elisabetta.sgarbi@rcs.it.
Director of photography: Elio Bisignani.
Editor: Luciano Marenzoni.
Cast: Luciano Emmer, Vittorio Sgarbi.
Production company: Betty Wrong, via Ceradini 3, 20129 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-50952666, fax +39-02-76110882, e-mail elisabetta.sgarbi@rcs.it.