Domenico De Gaetano starts from the works of Peter Greenaway to whom he has dedicated studies and essays to address the present and future of a cinema increasingly oriented towards digital technology. He takes inspiration from the films of the English director for their connotation of total experiences, in which painting, theater, literature, music and new technologies converge in a happy example of neo-baroque aesthetics but pays particular attention to his new cinematographic-multimedia phase, the one inaugurated in 2000 with the start of the grandiose Tulse Luper project and continued with the film Nightwatching and the installation Repopulating the Palace.
This allows De Gaetano to make some considerations on the expectations that today's audiences have with respect to images thanks to the Internet, laptops, cell phones, YouTube. A challenge and a transformation that cinema is only partly able to face because, as Greenaway claims, "cinema is dead. Creative people no longer make cinema in the traditional sense, but invest their energy in new technologies. The future is in digital".
Artistic director of Volumina (www.volumina.net), Domenico De Gaetano has been studying Greenaway’s artistic universe since university. For over ten years he has organized film festivals for the National Cinema Museum of Turin and other European museums, coordinated the activities of the Media Library of Independent Cinema of the City of Turin and edited CDs of contemporary music and film music for Decca, Universal and Felmay. His non-fiction production is also noteworthy, including Peter Greenaway’s Cinema (Lindau, 1995-2008), Cinema and Rock (with Simone Arcagni, GS, 1999), Behind the Camera (with Nello Rassu, Lindau, 2008) and Turin. Action, Camera! A Brief History of Cinema in Turin from Deep Red to After Midnight (Lindau, 2008).
