(ANSA) - VENICE, 05 SEPT - A dream remains for Abel Ferrara: "Making a film without a script: going out on the street with latroupe and seeing what happens".
Thus the director of 'Ilcattiva tenente' at the Lido where he presented, out of competition, 'Sportin' Life ', the sixth incarnation of the international artistic project Self, curated by the creative director of SaintLaurent, Anthony Vaccarello.
The New York director, who has been living in Rome for years where he has lived with his partner Cristina Chiriac and his daughter Anna, will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award, again as part of the 77th Venice International Film Festival. As for 'Sportin' Life 'it is a film collage in which there are, at the same time, traces and clips of many of his films, elements of his unorthodox life in the past, moments of daily life during the lockdown and also his singular vision of 'art. For the director "the positive aspect of this nightmare that was the lockdown is that each of us found himself taking stock of his own life. And then - he adds - I found myself spending a lot of time with my daughter Anna and with the beauty of solitude of Rome, of the emptiness that was ". And again the director on the working of Sportin 'Life: "Many things, I self-report, I shot them secretly, around my house. Necessity, you know, is the mother of all creativity. I was thrilled to have done that. the occasion is a bit like a journalist, something that always happens when you make a documentary ". (HANDLE).