The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working within images. With this non-competitive section of the festival, both MUBI and FILMADRID will offer the video essay format the platform and visibility it deserves. The seven selected works will premiere online from June 5 through June 11, 2023, on MUBI's online publication Notebook. The selection was made by the Notebook editors and FILMADRID.
Giulietta & Giulietta and the Spirits of Fellini by Jacopo Torriti
To pay tribute to the five-time Academy Award–winner Federico Fellini, who passed away 30 years ago, I have decided to analyze Juliet of the Spirits, one of his most underrated movies, focusing mainly on Giulietta Masina, Fellini's muse, who plays the protagonist of the film.—Jacopo Torriti