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DESERTO ROSA - LUIGI GHIRRI

By Elisabetta SGARBI, Eugenio LIO (ASSISTANT)

Documentary - Completed 2009

The purpose of the film is to approach to the sources of emotion, which is the essential guide-line of the great photographer Luigi Ghirri's whole work.

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Elisabetta SGARBI, Eugenio LIO (ASSISTANT)
- Writer(s)
- Aleksandr SOKUROV, Diego MARANI, Luigi GHIRRI, Antonio SCURATI, Vittorio SGARBI, Franco BATTIATO (ORIGINAL MUSIC)
- Cast
- Andrea RENZI, Sabrina COLLE, Toni SERVILLO
- Producer(s)
- Elisabetta SGARBI (BETTY WRONG), Rai CINEMA (RAI CINEMA (COPRODUCTION)), Regione EMILIA-ROMAGNA (REGIONE EMILIA ROMAGNA (COPRODUCTION))
- Synopsis
- The purpose of the film is to approach to the sources of emotion, which is the essential guide-line of the great photographer Luigi Ghirri's whole work. Luigi Ghirri's ultimate project, which unfortunately has not been realized, was a "house of seasons": he planned to buy a cottage - appearing in his last works - near his house in Roncocesi, with the aim of using it as a space for the staging of a series of exhibitions, each related to the going season, in order to establish a relation between the time of nature and the time of Art. "Deserto Rosa" is inspired by this interrupted project: the camera "pays visit" to a sequence of landscapes photographed by Ghirri just following the season rotation: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Night Spring.
  Aleksandr Sokurov describes every season represented in the movie, focusing in a narrative form the feeling of time blindness that belonged to Luigi Ghirri.
  Paola Borgonzoni Ghirri described him as follows: “Luigi Ghirri was always there, walking on a rope over a snowy meadow, on a ploughed field or vanishing in the fog, always a little higher than me even on the Adriatic beaches, in the light of one of those summer sunsets, that give this sea his hues of turquoise and emerald.”