VENICE 2021 Giornate degli Autori
Tommaso Landucci • Director of Caveman - The Hidden Giant
"Creating a statue where no one would be able to see it is as contradictory as the artist behind it was"
by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso
VENICE 2021: The filmmaker dedicates his documentary to artist and spelunker Filippo Dobrilla, the creator of an imposing marble sculpture that lies in a cave in the Apuan Alps
(In Italian)
Filmmaker Tommaso Landucci, who was formerly assistant director to Claudio Giovannesi and Luca Guadagnino, dedicates his first feature-length documentary, Caveman - The Hidden Giant [+see also:
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