Una giornata nell’Archivio Piero Bottoni
Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Italy, 2022, 35’
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
SYNOPSIS
In a room of the Cineteca di Milano, Giancarlo Consonni and Graziella Tonon watch some
old films that have just been digitized: they tell of the life and projects of the architect,
urban planner, painter, photographer Piero Bottoni.
The film follows the couple’s search among the materials preserved both in the film library and especially in the archive.
They tell of a multifaceted and socially committed artist, who dedicated his life and his work to the primary intent of infusing dream and enchantment into reality, making use of the contribution of all the arts.
Through the multiplicity of materials at our disposal – drawings, films, photos, investigations,
projects, voices – the film shows the realization of Piero Bottoni’s most ambitious project: the
construction of a mountain in Milan, Monte Stella, born from the rubble of the Second World War. Because as Bottoni himself writes: “If Monte Stella was born, grew, covered with trees, paths and roads, it is because it was a dream and a poem and because I believed in it.
Since dream and poetry move, despite appearances, the world”.
CREDITS
Directed by Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Photography Massimo D’Anolfi
Sound Martina Parenti
Music Massimo Mariani
Production Montmorency Film
In collaboration with Rai Cinema
With Giancarlo Consonni, Graziella Tonon
