“Often - and especially in recent years - the theater has been the cinema we have been missing. There were and are many (too many) well-dressed and well-mannered Italian films. They lacked the essential quality: that dimension of "vigilambulism" (Artaud) which alone could plunge them beneath the surface of things, determining a very different necessity, a social utility. A very notable exception, Pippo Delbono's cinema knows how to be aesthetic and ecstatic, it breaks through appearances, thus also making us perceive the off-screen nature of things and beings. It comes from experiences rooted in a hard and joyful experience at the same time and therefore knows how to deal with the tragic and the sublime. He innovated on the usual methods of production, inventing a procedure where creation comes from the laboratory. It signaled an urgent border crossing, an immersion in a first-person cinema that feeds our independent scene with ideas, style and technique." (Marco Müller)
Marco Müller is a researcher in ethnomusicology and visual anthropology. Film critic and historian. Festival director (Electric Shadows, Turin; Pesaro; Rotterdam; Locarno; Venice; Rome). Producer (Fabrica Cinema; Downtown Pictures; OneArt Produzioni). Cinema teacher (Barbarano CineLab, Viterbo; CISA, Lugano; University of Italian Switzerland, Mendrisio).