With Vittorio Storaro's lecture, great cinematographic fotography author and winner of three Oscars, Giffoni Experience 44th edition's Masterclass meetings have begun at Antica Ramiera in Giffoni. A chance to bestow him the Truffaut Award for career.
"I had a dream – declared Storaro while receiving the award – that is cinema, and I went away to make it come true. Claudio Gubitosi had the same dream and he has brought international cinema to Giffoni. This is Claudio Gubitosi and this is Giffoni's secret. This award for career is the aknowledgment for the path I told you about. The biggest aknowledgment is having left a mark, I wish someone will follow my path."
"Today – declared Giffoni Experience artistic director, Claudio Gubitosi – you got the chance to meet a great man who told you about a dream. Giffoni is a small reality and it has become a fantastic place that gives you the possibility to clarify your doubts". The Award Cerimony has concluded the meeting with Vittorio Storaro, a journey through lights, colors, elements and muses as pieces of both his prestigious career and his life experience. Maestro Storaro donated to Giffoni Experience the volume "L'arte della cinematografia", a book he has edited with Lorenzo Codelli and Bob Fisher and that collects 150 authors' cinematographic experience: "I hope – declared Storaro – this book can represent the first step for a library dedicated to the cinema that Giffoni Experience doesn't have".
Storaro’s masterclass has traced his career, made of important encounters with giants of the cinema - from Bertolucci to Coppola and Warren Beatty – and the milestones of his studies and researches.
“I know youth pretty well – said Storaro – I’ve got several pupils and I can tell young people don’t usually show great consideration for the past, being rather focused on the here and now. But life is made of chapters, of segments. I’ve started studying the meaning of light and shade, of the conscious and the unconscious. Then I’ve moved to colours and afterwards I’ve tried to understand the connection between two elements: light and shade, the conscious and the unconscious, warm and cold colours, passion and rationality. I’ve recently developed a passion for great spiritual guides. We are taught great lessons in life. We can’t just expect things to happen to us, we must head for them. If you don’t believe in your dreams, if you don’t cherish them, they are unlikely to ever come true. If you really care about something, you must work hard in order to achieve it”.
He carried on about the evolution of filmmaking techniques: “You may think that digital cinematography enables you to make a film all by yourself, but cinema must always be a choral tale. And you need to know all the past tales as well. That’s why I want to thank all the people I've met in my life, all the great masters and film creators, because without these personalities somebody else would have probably made the same movies but they could have never been the same".