Tommaso
Cecilia Mangini,
1967,
11’
The industrial city of Brindisi is the setting for this film, the tension between the bright promises of the industrial world and the not-so-bright reality of a young worker, in one of Mangini's most emblematic works.
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“I’ll tell you the truth. I’d like to say that making documentaries was my main aspiration... I discovered later that documentaries are really the breathing core of cinema. Documentary film is what ensures the survival of cinema... its placenta, its umbilical cord. Even in time of crisis or decline, cinema can save itself if it has the strength to go back to documentary film.”
Cécilia Mangini in conversation with Andrea Meneghelli and Michela Zegna1
- 1Andrea Meneghelli and Michela Zegna, ““Documentary film is what ensures the survival of cinema”. Interview with Cecilia Mangini,” Sabzian, 9 November 2022.
