Emilio Vedova stars in a documentary film with the voice of Toni Servillo

The great artist Emilio Vedova (Venice, 1919 - 2006), one of the world’s leading exponents of informal art, is the protagonist of a film dedicated to him released on the centenary of his birth. Emilio Vedova. On the side of the shipwreck is the title of the documentary film focused on his figure: directed by Tomaso Pessina, it uses the narrator’s voice of Toni Servillo who will read Vedova’s diaries punctuating the sections of the documentary, within which will alternate narration, interviews and recollections of figures such as Germano Celant, Georg Baselitz (who was moreover Vedova’s friend), Alfredo Bianchini (president of the Emilio Vedova Foundation), Karole Vail (director of the Guggenheim Foundation). Memories of his companion Annabianca will not be missing.

The 68-minute film will also feature archival materials (including several unpublished ones preserved at the Fondazione Emilio and Annabianca Vedova, the film’s producer) and will begin precisely from the pages of the diary that Vedova published in the 1960s, and which tell not only about the great author’s art, but are also a vivid testimony of Italy in those years. Emilio Vedova. On the Side of Shipwreck will be officially presented in the program of Venice Days at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

Emilio Vedova stars in a documentary film with the voice of Toni Servillo

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