MACERATA - It is signed by Dante Ferretti Scenaria, the first international scenography festival that was born in Italy and specifically in Macerata, his native land.
A review conceived by the artist Mauro Mazziero, and in some way inspired by the work of the award-winning Italian master of world scenography with the Oscars won for The Aviator by Martin Scorsese (2005), Sweeney Todd by Tim Burton (2008) and Hugo Cabret, direction by Martin Scorsese (2012), but also collaborator of Pasolini, Zeffirelli, Elio Petri, Fellini.
"The scenography is inhabited art, it is the representation of a world - says Ferretti - I am pleased to have inspired and participate in the Scenaria project. I hope that the scenography can be the means for a renewed season of the arts". The purpose of the festival is to make known a magical art, in all its forms from the historical and artisan ones to the technical ones, up to the latest technological and spectacular innovations of the great cinema, theatrical and television productions. In 2022, prizes will be awarded for the best scenography in the cinema, theater and television sectors and an award for students, comparing great protagonists and emerging talents. "The space and its authors thus become protagonists of stories and creative processes that acquire an independent value with respect to the contents of films and shows" reflects Mazziero. Waiting for 2022 and in time of coronavirus, Scenaria opens its business with films and reports dedicated to the enhancement of the scenography. The first Marche, a land of scenographers, a short documentary directed by the director Tommaso Malaisi and edited by Cristina Tilio, is visible from today on the website www.scenariafestival.it. It is a journey dedicated to the great protagonists of the scenography of yesterday and today, many of Marche origin or linked to the region. Like Gerolamo Genga, from Urbino, the first to draw a scene with a perspective view in the 15th century. Or Giacomo Torelli, from Fano, exponent of the Baroque theater and inventor of the change of scene on sight which aroused a sense of wonder in the 17th century spectators. Up to more recent years, Aldro Tomassini Barbarossa from Macerata, where Ferretti himself, Carlo Cesarini da Senigallia (Studio Uno, Canzonissima), Mario Garbuglia (Il Gattopardo, Rocco and his Brothers, The Great War) moved the first aces , Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Oscar winner in 1988 for the scenography of The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci. Memories alternating with the testimonies of university or academy professors, professionals and creatives of today such as Benito Leonori, Henning Brockhaus (director of the Traviata 'degli specchi' with scenes by Josef Svoboda), Raffaele Curi, artistic director of the Fendi Foundation, Giancarlo Basili, Giancarlo Colis.
