1/3/2023 0 Comments Federico fellini museum rimini“The museum works as a sort of time machine,” said Leonardo Sangiorgi, one of the founders of the Milan-based art collective Studio Azzurro, which created the museum’s multimedia displays, allowing spectators to savour the details and nuances of Fellini’s films. They hope the latter group will be entertained by the installations and interactive screens (now on automatic mode because of the pandemic) that offer insights into Fellini’s rich imagination. Rimini’s administrators are hoping the museum will attract both longtime Fellini aficionados and those who were too young to see his films in movie theatres. “We’re slowly rebuilding our city’s memory,” said Francesca Minak, an archaeologist and city tourism official. Along with the museum sites, the same square includes a theatre bombed and destroyed in World War II, now meticulously reconstructed and reopened in 2018, as well as a refurbished medieval building that was turned into a contemporary art museum, which opened a year ago. “It’s an operation that changed the face of the city,” said Marco Leonetti, one of the city officials who oversaw the project. The museum occupies two historic buildings, with a large piazza in between, effectively reconfiguring a significant part of Rimini’s downtown. “We wanted a museum that would go beyond primary resources exhibited in showcases, and allow the visitor to become an engaged spectator,” said Marco Bertozzi, a professor of film at the Iuav University of Venice, who curated the museum with art historian Anna Villari. The museum is at turns fantastic (pages from the so-called “Book of Dreams,” Fellini’s drawings and musings on his nighttime reveries, appear on a wall when visitors blow on a feather) lavish (it includes outlandish costumes from the liturgical fashion show in his 1972 film “Roma”) and bizarre (what to make of a gigantic plush sculpture of actress Anita Ekberg, which visitors can recline on to watch scenes from “La Dolce Vita?”). That description could easily apply to the Fellini Museum, which opened in the Italian coast city of Rimini - the director’s birthplace - earlier this month: a multimedia project that draws visitors into Fellini’s idiosyncratic cinematic universe.
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