La realtà è un invito - In viaggio con Francesco Zizola | Film database

Francesco Zizola was the first Italian photographer to win the World Press Photo of the Year in 1997, with an image on the effects of anti-personnel mines in Angola. His photographs have been published in the largest international magazines and have obtained the greatest recognition for a photographer. For thirty years, with a very personal style, of great expressive power and ethical depth, Zizola has narrated wars, suffering, injustices and poverty in every corner of the planet, with the aim of stirring the consciences of readers. In the 2000s the digital revolution caused the collapse of the world of traditional printing and publishers stop supporting the work of great photojournalists. It's an epochal change.Francesco Zizola uses digital technology, which has decreed the end of the great photographic reportage, to enter new territories of representation and begins to create an impressive photographic project on the relationship between man and nature. In his new photographs, reality becomes an invitation to discover and abandon oneself to new and mysterious dimensions of the imagination.

The intention of the film is to tell, through the compelling personal story of a great photographer, fundamental social and cultural issues of our time and for the future of humanity. Francesco Zizola is an author recognized and esteemed throughout the world for the stories that in his thirty-year career he has chosen to tell and for the ethical gaze with which he has brought them to the general public. In an era marked by the exasperated creation of photographic images and the lack of knowledge of visual language, the story of Zizola's career and works is more urgent and necessary than ever. Through his figure and the expressive power of his visions, the public will be stimulated to ask questions about the relationship between photography and reality and that between human beings and nature.

Director

Francesca Frigo

Story

Francesca Frigo, Andrea Parena

Screenplay

Francesca Frigo, Andrea Parena

Director of photography

Gherardo Gossi

Film Editor

Enrico Giovannone

Sound

Sandro Ivessich Host