The essay analyzes Paolo Benvenuti’s cinema, revealing his poetics suspended between history, painting, and epic theater. Through in-depth interviews, unpublished and archival materials, it reconstructs the originality of an author who conceives cinema as a pedagogical and maieutic act: a tool to inspire reflection and critical thought. Crucial is the rigor in choosing the point of view: every shot becomes an act of deliberate storytelling, where aesthetics and ethics merge into a profound synthesis. Benvenuti thus emerges as “the painter with the camera”, transforming cinema into a timeless space of visual, ethical, and historical reflection.
University of Pisa, Italy
Book Title
Paolo Benvenuti
Book Subtitle
Il pittore con la macchina da presa
Authors
Francesco Giusiani
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
216
Publication Year
2025
Copyright Information
© 2025 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0610-5
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0609-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0610-5
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0611-2
Series Title
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
Series ISSN
2704-6249
Series E-ISSN
2704-5870