These filmmaker biographies and memoirs span decades and continents, but return repeatedly to the same question: how does personal history shape what ends up on the screen?
Carlo Lizzani rebuilt the festival's reputation in part by rejecting the divide between experimental and commercial cinema, a radical move that helped it regain its international standing.
The idea for the exhibition can be traced back more than fifteen years but was buoyed into reality more recently by two major acquisitions by the NMAA.