Meraviglia! The Place Where Dreams Come True
NONE collective makes the Italian Pavilion the Dream Factory at 71st Cannes Film Festival.
From May 8th to May 19th, the NONE collective artists are making the Italian Pavilion space a magical, timeless place, inside the very essence of the Dream Factory: Cinecittà, which since 1937 has been producing cinema and making dreams come true, in the spot where the Italian film industry enlivens its present, past, and future surreal imaginary.
NONE collective created an immersive, site-specific installation to re-experience the magic of Cinecittà avenues, to deliver the illusion of the worlds created before a camera and to reveal those that hide behind it. As in Chinese boxes, the installation is composed of several scenic designs that are contained one inside the other and trigger the amusement of the cinema clapperboard.
As people enter Meraviglia! – which is the name of this year Italian Pavilion – they are surrounded by a dreamy, surreal world, a factory without walls wrapped in a starry sky, among contemporary architectures that show through wind, mapping and holographic and volumetric projections on golden meshes.
The technology is used to expand reality, through sound and light effects, to evoke an unconscious, inner, dreamy world: to make the surreal come true.
Visitors will live this dreamy journey along with scenes from historical movies, such as Fellini’s “Interview”, “The Leopard”, “Cleopatra”, “The Last Emperor”, “Children of the Night”, Dario Argento’s “Inferno”, Sergio Castellitto’s “Fortunata”, besides the movies that this year will represent Italy at the Croisette, from Matteo Garrone’s “Dogman” to Alice Rorhwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro” and Valeria Golino’s “Euphoria” in the section Un Certain Regard.
