Bella di notte

Emmer was commissioned by the Rai 2 to make the official documentary on the reopening of the Villa Borghese in Rome and its extraordinary collection of works of art. The filmmaker, like all the other times, re-appropriates the commission and turns it into something else: a night-time journey in the first person through his memory, through his experience as a child in this place, from a slide that also works as an antidote to today’s overcrowding of the place, and as an antidote to the art documentary with iconographic analyses in voice-over taken from books, featuring the talking busts of art experts.