Homepage | European Film Gateway. Independent Study Help. The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective. Senses of Cinema. Chiaroscuro: Caravaggio, Bazin, Storaro. It is difficult to transmit your feelings into pure energy. You have to translate the energy. When I realised that, I began to really understand what cinematography was about.
Light is energy. The energy is stopped by an object or a person and received on film through a little piece of glass and then processed in the laboratory and printed. . - Vittorio Storaro, Post-Script (Fall 1984) Vittorio Storaro has recently completed two parallel projects: first, in 2007, he did the cinematography for a television film, Caravaggio (RAI, 2007), directed by Angelo Longoni with actor Alessio Boni in the title role.
In Writing with Light, Storaro’s list of creative sources fills a monumental $600 multivolume coffee-table oeuvre. Storaro’s signature is a highly pictorial style of lighting which never loses touch with the physical environment where the fiction unfolds. Storaro’s traditionalist stance in favor of painting is not only a backward glance, but also a move forward. Caravaggio and Storaro. FIGHT CLUB - BUCH, FILM & BEWUSSTSEIN.