A whole evening dedicated to Jean Rouch’s experience in Turin with the screening of Enigma and of the doc by Di Castri, Favaro and Pianciola assembled with recently retrieved valuable backstage material.
Cinema Massimo – 20 December 2017, 6.00/8.30 p.m. – Screen Three
A whole evening dedicated to Jean Rouch’s experience in Turin – the ethnologist, anthropologist and French director who died in 2004 - who filmed his Enigma in Turin exactly 31 years ago, while coordinating a seminar promoted by the Festival Cinema Giovani.
Some years after his death, the videotapes containing the backstage of the film shot by young cameraman Giovanni Gebbia and the students of the film school, L'Occhio la Macchina la Città, were found. Di Castri, Favaro and Pianciola made a documentary out of that material, entitled L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino, which retraces the work of the director in the city.
On the evening of Wednesday 20 December there will be a screening at 6.00 p.m. of the restoration of the film Enigma and then, at 8.30 p.m., a screening of the documentary L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino, made thanks to discovery of this precious material. Before the documentary screening, there will be a meeting with the authors. Admission 6.00/4.00 euro.
Wed 20, at 6.00p.m.
Jean Rouch/Alberto Chiantaretto/Marco di Castri/Daniele Pianciola
Enigma
(Italy/France 1986, 95’, DCP, col.)
A mysterious patron calls a forger into his castle on the Turin hills and asks him to create the painting that Giorgio De Chirico did not paint in 1911, when he stayed in Turin. The painter moves in the city between Dechiriquesque suggestions and Nietzschean references, making strange, disturbing encounters thanks to which he identifies the metaphysical aspect of the city. Jean Rouch shot Enigma in Turin together with the three members of KWK (Chiantaretto, Pianciola and Di Castri), while coordinating a seminar promoted by the Festival Cinema Giovani.
Wed 20, at 8.30 p.m.
Marco di Castri/Paolo Favaro/Daniele Pianciola
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino
(Italy 2017, 90’, DCP, col.)
The documentary tells the story of what was truly a “laboratory of ideas” and the birth of the film that came out of it. Enigma. The documentary retraces the two years that passed between Jean Rouch’s arrival and the conclusion of the project through the voices of its main protagonists, in dialogue with some extraordinary material: over twenty hours of the “making of”.
Produced by Atacama Film with the support of the Film Commission Torino Piemonte and presented at the latest Venice Biennale .