Ladernièreutopie:LatélévisionselonRossellini

In the early 60’s, Roberto Rossellini, the father of Italian Neo-Realism, steps away from the “classic” movie industry in order to start an ambitious project of television productions. The filmmaker wants to offer his contemporaries new ways to learn how to think the world, their condition, their history. Movies extracts, radio interviews and stories of some of his close collaborators show how television as seen by Rossellini was the evolution of the work developed since Rome, Open Cite. Jean-Louis Comolli makes a beautiful film searching for friends and people who had worked with the grand master of Italian Neo-Realism Roberto Rosselini.Jean-Louis Comolli (born 30 July 1941) is a French writer, editor, and film director. He was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1966 to 1978, during which period he wrote the influential essays Machines of the Visible (1971) and Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field (1971-2), both of which have been translated in English anthologies of film and media studies. This work was important in the discussion on apparatus theory, an attempt to rethink cinema as a site for the production and maintenance of dominant state ideology in the wake of May 1968.After his tenure at Cahiers, Comolli continued his work as a director and has since published numerous works on film theory, documentary, and jazz. He currently teaches film theory at the Universities of Paris VIII, Barcelona, Strasburg and Genève