Corvaglia seeks support for his alternative cinema
A film, a book, an exhibit. All this is La cena di Emmaus (“Supper at Emmaus”), a project by producer Gianluca Arcopinto and debut filmmaker Josè Corvaglia, inspired by Caravaggio’s renowned painting of 1606. The initial project is a 35mm, 11-minute film of a child who learns the painful way of the social, ethnic and political conflicts expressed symbolically by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the work, images and designs blend masterfully and frenetically, with film references to Hitchcock, Kubrick and the horror genre.
After winning numerous national awards, the short film has now been "integrated into a museum project", said Corvaglia, which includes an exhibit of 70 paintings of the designs and stills from the film (from July 19-October 19 at the Palazzo Baronale di Vaste, near Lecce) and the publication of a book-DVD set. For this new distribution model, Arcopinto makes his debut in publishing with an out of the ordinary project that comes, he says, "at a moment in which cinema is repeating itself. I prefer to remain at its limits, at the extremes, without ever being a victim of this logic".
Arcopinto and the talented Corvaglia are currently working on a new project, inspired by the mystery of the Tree of Life mosaic in the Otranto Cathedral. The director called it "an alternative model of European cinema” that merits financial support.
(Translated from Italian)
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