Tondals Vision

Francesco Bertolini Adolfo Padovan and Giuseppe De Liguoros Linferno 1911 a Doréinspired visualisation of the eponymous first canticle in Dante Alighieris Divina Commedia 1320 is commonly considered to be Italys first featurelength film and also the first local attempt at making something that in the eyes of a bourgeois audience would be accepted as having artistic value Stephen Broomer now takes the complete film and reworks it by all means analogue and digital available to the modern filmmaker But who is Tondal A knight errant who appears in the Divina Commedia but also an older literary character from the 1100s whose story was retold till deep into the 15th century Expect a grand exceptional audiovisual spectacle