Movie Details
Original Language:English
Mediolanum
DirectorUbaldo Magnaghi
33 min
Plot
For Mediolanum his second documentary Ubaldo Magnaghi cofounder in 1930 of the Milan CineClub soon to become Cineguf with Francesco Pasinettis Venice club was commissioned by Agfa then one of Europes biggest film manufacturers probably to demonstrate the quality and superiority of reversible film which remained unique after exposure and standardized developing In Mediolanum Magnaghi sought the abstract He isolated strong essential architectural features without needing to recompose them in descriptions but making a show of them in temporal desired luminous contrast He provoked abstraction with rapid panoramas but above all with bold as well as oblique camera positions He was more redundant than Ivens or Vigo perhaps without knowing their work But he was attentive above all to form since the human figure is always present in the background The result is a real harmonic symphony of luminous contrasts which are also fragmented glimpses of a great city
