Film Commission Torino Piemonte

This will be a film about the birth of cinema as we know it today, and, more importantly, an exercise in analysis and re-invention of cinematographic styles and techniques. Maciste was born in 1914 when cinema was in its early infancy and looking to shed the sideshow aura that surrounded it and carve out an autonomous identity for itself. Even then, there were those who were already following courses mapped out by others, and those who wanted to innovate and experiment, risking their capital, names and careers. Maciste was born out of all this and later became an expression of it. Our film will therefore provide a playful look at cinema and its styles, from its very origins. Maciste will therefore perform a new miracle – he’ll bring the past back to life at the same time as he tries to innovate in a present world that too often thinks it has no further need of inventing anything new.