ITALY
OSCAR NIEMEYER - THE NAKED ARCHITECTURE.
2008 – Digital Video – colore - 52’
Direction: Andrea Bezziccheri
Screenplay: Andrea Bezziccheri
Cinematography: Bomba - Gianluca Bombardone
Editing: Maria Cristina Sansone
Set design: Franco Losvizzero
Music: Gabriele Mainetti
Sound record: Andrea Faustinella
Cast: Giacomo Pietrapiana, Oscar Niemeyer, Massimiliano Fuksas
Production: BOMBA production
SYNOPSIS
A young architect in search of himself in the distant land of Brazil, questions ‘what is beauty?’At first, the youth interviews architect Fuksas who tells him about his unique architectural referring point; but then he decides to continue his journey in order to meet the source... He crosses the seas and asks Oscar Niemeyer, the architect of all architects, if architecture can mirror humanity's scientific, spiritual and social progress; that is, if esthetics could tell the story of the intimate journey of Man. During hours in which the two discuss, the youth’s impressed eyes, wide open, light up to Niemeyer’s 100 years of wisdom; wisdom gathered through a life time of quests that Niemeyer continues to research with the curiosity and vigor of a student!To go to Brasilia, the city that Niemeyer built 50 years ago in the middle of the desert, and to enter the constructions that characterized a revolution that the great architect began with Corbusier, will make the young architect reflects on humanity as well on his future and his own journey...Metaphysical places, philosophical reasoning and art will combine to portrait the journey of a man who is still fully engaged in transforming the “shape” of the world. Going from Paris to Rio De Janeiro, and to Rome, Milan and to Brasilia, the young architect will venture into the world of beauty, beyond esthetics.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I soon realised that Oscar Niemeyer couldn’t be told through a documentary on architecture, nor I wanted to shoot a simple “documentary”. I wanted to give it something more, reflecting also my aesthetic and artistic researches, I wanted to approach the subject as an “author”…But I hadn’t consider the character Oscar Niemeyer, and the fact that at the age of 100 he is more lucid than 99% of the persons I know and that he is the ‘master’ we all would like to meet! This is how I understood that the film would have been not about an architect but about the whole mankind, about the latest 100 years and the aesthetic of content, of the earth and ourselves.. empty or full!?...The answer is up to you!
