• <strong>AIC</strong>VITTORIO ~r • _ s p a z l o dell 'immagine
<strong>AIC</strong> Da sempre, da quando l'uomo ha avuto la necessità di esprimere i suoi pensieri, i suoi sentimenti, le sue emozioni nelle arti figurative, ha scelto di volta in volta, uno spazio ben preciso e delineato per farlo: il disegno, la scultura, la pittura, il teatro, la fotografia, la cinematografia, la televisione, tutte forme d'arte che hanno avuto ciascuna nella propria area figurativa, una certa dimensione, una certa Proporzione, tra i lati che 'La luna" di Bernardo Bertolucci ripreso con rapporto 1,85:1 delineano il loro spazio espressivo, dando così vita alla parola: "composizione". Una parola che solo per il fatto di esistere, ha da sempre causato una visione non realistica di qualsiasi tentativo di riproduzione <strong>della</strong> realtà. Solo per il fatto <strong>della</strong> possibilità di scelta di uno "specifico spazio", in cui si è raccolta una porzione di quella realtà, l'immagine risultante è così stata, è, e sempre sarà, una interpretazione Since the very beginning, since the time that man first felt the need to express his thoughts, feelings and emotions in the figurative arts, he has always chosen a precise and well-defined space in which to do it, whether it was Drawing, Sculpture, Painting, Theatre, Photography, Cinematography or Television, all art forms which have, in their own Particular figurative area, a certain dimension and proportion contained within their expressive space, thus bringing the word Composition" into being. A word that, simply because it eocists, has always resulted in any attempt at reproducing reality being seen as non-realistic. Merely became the Possibility exists of Choosing a "Specific Space" in which a portion of that reality is communicated, the resulting image has always been, and will always be, a subjective Interpretation of that particular reality and, therefore, must always be considered an Individual Expression. And ever since the time that each visual form has utilized images composed by man, divulging them through the "medium"for which they were realized, even if in different dimensions, no conflict has ever arisen within the expressive form itself, regarding the actual concept of composition. Films with varying ratios have always been made and projected, even if with different compositional aspects, always respecting the original ratio m which each film was realized, With this remaining constant, the simple changing of a matte or substitution of a projector lens permitted all Film authors to express themselves, composing their individual 1 mages according to the requirements of each film, beginning with the smallest picture, created with a ratio of 1:1.37 (more generally known as the 1.1:1.33 of the silent cinema), and moving through an entire series of ratios frorn: 1:1.66 -1:1.75 -1:1.85 -1:2.21 up to the 1:2.35 of the wide soggettiva di quel tipo di realtà e quindi sempre e comunque da considerarsi una espressione individuale. E da quando ogni singola forma visiva, ha utilizzato le immagini composte dall'uomo, divulgandole attraverso il "mezzo" in cui erano state originariamente pensate e realizzate, anche se in dimensioni diverse, non si è mai creato, in seno alla forma espressiva stessa, nessun anamorphic screen; always respecting, however, the Author's original vision, his original concept for each specific project. If it is true, and I believe it is, that in every era, one of the expressive forms has always, in a specific moment in time, influenced the rest to a certain degree, it would seem that in our era, without a doubt, it is the Electronic Image which is influencing the rest of the figurative arts. And I think it will have an ever greater influence very shortly, when the High Definition Video System, the new television process, is introduced and makes its presence felt As has been the practice for some time now, a Film, whether it be great or small, a success or a flop, inspired or mediocre, is first of all exploited commercially for a brief period in the cinemas, and then for a much longer period on the electronic screen, either in television distribution, or video tapes and discs, which are also extremely handy for personal use, for keeping records, study, etc. And it is at this point, when it is transferred from one "medium" to another, that a Cinematographic Work, released by its authors via the Answer Print which determines it as a Film, undergoes further modification and, apart from the variations in colour and tone caused by the different recording possibilities of the two media, and the different overall dimension of the two images which necessarily elicits diverse emotional reactions in the viewer, the original figurative structure and this is particularly important, is altered As the Cinema is a language of images, it is precisely in changing the original composition of the Cinematographic "picture" that one consequently alters the linguistic expression, the style and, indeed, the Film itself. One of the current banes of Cinematographic authors is the enormous compromise that has to be made when composing an image, to meet the