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Inferno 2021 at Ravenna Festival

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Jul , 8
Inferno 2021 at Ravenna Festival

Ravenna, July 20, 2021, 9:30 pm
Rocca Brancaleone

Ravenna Festival

Edison Studio presents

INFERNO
film based on “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri
directed by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, 1911

Computer Soundtrack by Edison Studio

Mauro Cardi, Luigi Ceccarelli, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Alessandro Cipriani
version restored by the Cineteca di Bologna

The film will be broadcast in streaming on the evening of the concert and will remain visible on the Ravenna Festival website

On the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante’s death, in 2021 Edison Studio created a new version of the soundtrack of the most visionary film in Italian silent cinema: Inferno (1911) from Dante Alighieri’s “La Divina Commedia”.
This new version is an elaboration of a project commissioned by the Ravenna Festival in 2008 and will be presented for the first time in the Ravenna Festival 2021 in collaboration with Salvatore Insana.

the restoration of the film was curated by the Cineteca di Bologna and carried out by the “L’Immagine Ritrovata” laboratory.

Edison Studio takes up the ancient tradition of silent film with live accompaniment in an original composition of vocal, mechanical sounds, borrowed from nature and the history of music, orchestrated and transformed live with the instruments of new technologies.

The Inferno soundtrack projects the viewer into a dreamlike and at times ironic dimension, thanks to a continuous ‘short circuit’ between reinvented voices, surreal acoustic landscapes, ambient sounds that envelope the space far beyond the possibilities of traditional cinema. The directors of the film, Adolfo Padovan, Francesco Bertolini, and Giuseppe De Liguoro, in 1911 made the first feature film in the history of Italian cinema, an unprecedented colossal:

3 years of filming, 150 actors and extras, 100 scenes, and international distribution that touches Europe and the United States.

The aerial circling of the carnal sinners, the flashback stories of Paolo and Francesca and Count Ugolino; Pluto, Cerberus, Charon who ferries souls beyond the Acheron river, hordes of bat-demons and the three soul-devouring heads of the gigantic Lucifer are just some examples of the scenes and characters animated by numerous and unpublished special effects, inspired by the famous engravings nineteenth century by Gustave Doré.

A show where literature, cinema, and music blend into a unified and current artistic path.

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