FUORICAMPO. The cinema revealed

The National Cinema Museum in Turin presents the exhibition FUORICAMPO. Il cinema svelato (Off-Screen. Cinema revealed) on the historic gate of the Mole Antonelliana, a display consisting of fourteen large-format panels with over twenty images from the Museum’s collections.

The photographs reveal the behind-the-scenes world of film production: cameras, lights, sets, and technical equipment enter the frame, revealing the apparatus that makes the construction of fiction possible. In historical films, this revelation also produces an effect of estrangement, where different times overlap within the same image.
From the silent film Cabiria to blockbusters such as Ben-Hur and Cleopatra, to Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s with Brancaleone and Giordano Bruno, the images bear witness to the evolution of film technologies and languages. What remains constant is the energy of the sets: a place of work and invention, where the great history of cinema intertwines with the everyday reality of its creation.