FELLINOPOLIS / Fellinopolis

Enter the world of Federico Fellini. The world behind his camera on the sets and backstages of his films captured by another hidden camera and brought to the light after 40 years. Pull back the curtain and watch the Maestro at work realising his dreams and creating his magic. The centenary of Fellini affords an opportunity to see him afresh, to discover new dimensions of the master film director. The hidden camera belonged to Ferruccio Castronuovo. Between 1976 and 1986, Ferruccio made films known at the time as 'Specials' for publicity purposes, showing the backstage activity of the films of Federico Fellini: Casanova, The City of Women, And the Ship Sails On and Ginger and Fred. Fellini trusted Ferruccio and gave him a carte blanche access to his sets and back lots. He afforded him an unusual intimacy unselfconsciously revealling everything to him and to us 40 years later. Ferruccio unveils, a world apart, a city of the imagination, populated by unique characters, which has a life of its own, a Fellinopolis.