Tutto Fellini, a Fellini Season in Switzerland at Musée de l'Elysée

Tutto Fellini, a Fellini Season in Switzerland Opens with Exhibition at Musée de l'Elysée

A man sets up the exhibition of the Musee de l'Elysee 'Fellini, la Grande parade' (Fellini the big parade), in Lausanne, Switzerland. The exhibition about Federico Fellini's (1920-1993) life and work runs until 28 August 2011. EPA/DOMINIC FAVRE.

LAUSANNE.- Tutto Fellini, a Fellini season in Switzerland with the Fellini, la Grande parade exhibition at Musée de l'Elysée, a complete retrospective of Federico Fellini’s films at the Cinémathèque Suisse and an exhibition dedicated to the colour photographs of the film 8 ½ launch the Fellini Foundation for film’s new exhibition space, in Sion. While La Dolce Vita has just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, the Fellini, la Grande Parade exhibition is the perfect opportunity to interrogate the relevance of the filmmaker’s life’s work. Detaching itself from chronology to approach Fellini through his obsessions, the exhibition focuses exclusively on pictures, those that inspired the filmmaker, those of which he dreamt, those which he made himself… The confrontation of the images, the update of their diffusion by the means of a firmly contemporary mode of exhibition, establishes a dialogue between photography and film, between still and moving images. With the twofold ambition to contribute to the renewal of the reading grid of the filmmaker’s work, as well as confronting the question of displaying film, Fellini, la Grande Parade is a kind of visual laboratory. Distancing itself occasionally from Fellini’s filmography, it more widely interrogates the 20th century. A century marked by film, but also press, the media, television, and advertisement. In sum, the century of image, or more precisely, the century of building images. The Fellini, la Grande Parade exhibition is organised in association with the Cinémathèque suisse, the Fellini Foundation in Rimini, the Bologna Film Library and Fellini Foundation for film in Sion. Echoing the exhibition at Musée de l’Elysée, the Cinémathèque Suisse is showing the entirety of Federico Fellini’s films, from Monday June 6th to Tuesday July 5th. Program available on the Cinémathèque Suisse website http://www.cinematheque.ch/f/evenements/article/-7f2b93827d.html Fellini will extend to September. The Fellini Foundation for Film, in Sion, will launch its new space, La Maison du Diable, with an exhibition dedicated to previously unseen colour photographs from the film 8 ½. For more information go to the website http://www.fondation-fellini.ch