In a secluded corner of Cinecittà there is a magic place virtually no one knows which is bound to disappear soon enough. STUDIO E.L. founded in 1983 by Ettore Scola and Luciano Riccieri, is a creative space, a renaissance laboratory, a factory. A place where the two close friends worked on their movies for Cinecittà, but also a place where so many young artists were given the opportunity to grow and improve in their professional careers. After Ettore Scola’s and Luciano Ricceri’s demise, time has stopped at Studio E.L. and so has the life of so many items that represent the memory of almost 40 years’ history of our cinema.
Before closing down Studio E.L. forever, before turning it into a museum space, we would like to recognize the value of the items that can be found there and to reveal their story.
Those items will be the fil rouge of the story, they will help reawaken the memories of the people that regularly attended Studio E.L.. Those items will help us to rediscover Ettore Scola filmmaking through the stories revealed by loyal artisans.
12 meaningful items, 12 reconstructions of chunks of our story through interviews and frames of movies shot at Cinecittà.