unusual perspectives of things * seeing colours * scents * discovering precious persons at a glance * creativity in lifestyle * poetic sensibilities * daydreaming * imaginative power * a phantasmagoria of sound, colours and lights * curiosing the sky at night hopefully waiting for new creatures to come at the top of my tower * going for long walks into enchanted forests preferably alone at night * to set off in quest of forgotten treasures * lovely conversations with phantoms on how frightening someone * to make myself invisible unexpectedly * to make myself showy * to test the opposite of things * contriving magic potions and spells * alchemy * I love to polverize the rules and throw them away in the wind * to fool around * to play on words...italian words...there's more fun that language is so elaborate... * cabinet of curiosities * discovering ancient knowledges blew by the wind * to come out into the tempest * speaking to the plants and take care of them in my roof garden * to lose myself among dusty shelves of antique libraries finding out old precious illustrated volumes * better if owned by a fairy or a witch..
the gracious creature hidden in an ancient tree ....des essence rares... *
I’ve always listened to a vastitude of music from medieval and renaissance instrumental,baroque, romantic, classical music to contemporary. Although I’ve walked through pop, rock, folk, experimental, gothic and punk as well. I would not want to bore you with a detailed report of musicians and groups that you already know, although I have my favourites I’m in continuing evolution of preferences.I love the gipsy-tzigani music from the Balcans, Yiddish and Klezmer music for funeral and weddings, and dancing as well, greek ancient music and arabian, when Baghdad was still in our fantasy as an enchanted and magical place like in the thousands and a night tales…Turkish music of the Whirling dervishes, Mystical Chants… I love to listen to and discover new melodies of real people all around the world…anything that creates emotion and atmosphere…listen to the not pitched voices of women that singing while they work like the chants of my great-grandmother while working in the harvest fields or ancient shamans invoking the gods for the recovery or children playing in a Venetian’s piazza.I used to play the guitar, flute and cello in the course of these years and I’ve listened and played almost all sorts of music, sometimes I prefer to stay in silence and listen to the music echoing in my head… It delights me to hear the earlybirds at 5 in the morning when they wake, the steps of people walking in the old narrow streets in town while working in my laboratory , staring at the sea and listen to the waves and it’s a pleasure to hear the wind blows and….have you ever heard me sing?There’s something that really moves me everytime I hear their eternal music…..DEAD CAN DANCE…Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry
ORLANDO, not a man not a woman simply a person * MOULIN ROUGE, passioned love story and music * DONNIE DARKO, dark and mystical * MIRROR MASK, dave mckean,amazing style! * Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni * PROSPERO'S BOOKS, Peter Greenaway * Period dress movies* Tilda Swinton * Daniel Day Lewis * ONEGIN, Martha Fiennes * Ralph Fiennes * Emir Kusturica * Buster Keaton *Charlie Chaplin * Orson Welles * Andrei Tarkovski * Krzystof Kieslowski, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE, Three colors * OCI CIORNIE Nikita Mikhalkov with a wonderful Mastroianni * David Lynch * Tim Burton * Wim Wenders, Beyond the clouds, far away so close, Until the end of the world, Paris texas, Wings of desire * Kathrin Bigelow *DE WISSEL WACHTER Jos Stelling * the glance and vitality of Ewan McGregor * SCHOOL OF ROCK Richard Linklater, Kids power..the essence of rock * DOWN BY LAW Jim Jarmusch with Roberto Benigni * SMOKE * BLUE IN THE FACE * Harvey Keitel * William Hurt * Jane Campion, HOLY SMOKE, THE PIANO, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY * M. Night Shyamalan, THE VILLAGE, LADY IN THE WATER * THINGS YOU CAN TELL LOOKING AT HER Rodrigo Garcia *A ROOM WITH A VIEW, MAURICE, James Ivory *Emma Thompson * NANNY McPHEE * SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Ang Lee * silent movies * A SERIES OF MISFORTUNATE EVENTS *THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA *anything about ALICE IN WONDERLAND * TRULY MADLY DEEPLY *romantic stories * magical,charming and refined animations * old italian movies * I've studied cinema, in all these years I've seen a vast amount of films of all sorts from the silent years until the contemporary, I've just mentioned a few....
no tv, please
SALAMANDER,Thomas Wharton* SEVEN HOUSES, Alev Lytle Croutier* DREAMS OF TRESPASS, Fatima Mernissi* THE TRILOGY OF GRIFFIN AND SABINE,Nick Bantock* ALICE IN WONDERLAND,Lewis Carroll* A BOOK OF NONSENSE,Edward Lear* C.S.Lewis* Lemony Snicket, A series of misfortunate events * Roald Dahl * THE MERCHANT OF MARVELS, Frédéric Clement * Neil Gaiman-Dave Mckean * Fantastic literature* old children's literature and old illustrated books...I'm a tiredless collector and seeker of rare and old children illustrated books from all over the world, always looking for antique libraries, from rare Georgian and Regency gems, through Victorian gift books, to the diversity of later styles.Books of art, illustration, photography, all sort of magazines Apuleio the metamorphosis * Saint Agostino * Saint Francis of Assisi *Meetings with remarkable men G.I.Gurdjeff and all his writtens* the thousand nights and a night * McEwan The child in time * Banana Yoshimoto * Douglas Coupland * Isabe Allende Afrodita * Emily Dickinson* Virginia Woolf * bronte sisters * Anais Nin * James Cowan A mapmaker’s dream * Salinas, La voz a ti debida wonderful love poems * Divakaruni The mistress of spices * Pablo Neruda love poems * the tales of Laurie Anderson * Sam Shepard * Jack Kerouac, on the road is a must * Charles Bukowski is been a friend in my past wandering * ancient popular legends * Shakespiere * Tommaso Landolfi Racconto d’autunno * Italo Svevo La coscienza di Zeno * Tonino Guerra the great poet scryptwriter of Federico Fellini, anything about him poems and tales, in particular Il polverone * Terence Ward Searching for Hassan * Paulo Coelho The Alchimist * The great wisdom and irriverence of Tiziano terzani * Italo Calvino invisible cities *…..I can’t write here years and years of writings…
human beings
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