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07 August 2019 Hollywood would call it 'Fellini Experience', a place to experience what was the work of the Master of cinema in all its forms and dimensions. This is the inclination of the project that the Rimini City Council has definitively approved, the first of four excerpts planned for the realization of the 'Fellini Museum', which - if the times are respected - will be opened in 2020. It will not have only one exhibition venue, but the entire historic center will be involved in a wider cultural restructuring.Three main pillars: Castel Sismondo , the fifteenth-century fortress to which Filippo Brunelleschi contributed; Palazzo Valloni , a recently restored eighteenth-century building, where on the ground floor there is the Fulgor cinema dear to the Rimini record and 'Piazza dei Sogni' , with a journey of Fellini installations and scenography and the creation of green areas, arenas for outdoor shows.
"In our intentions - said the Mayor of Rimini, Andrea Gnassi - the 'Fellini Museum' will have to have the same role and centrality of the 'Guggenheim Museum' for Bilbao. A cultural and art engine, which has the ambition to cover its precise space in the great international museum network. It will not be an immobile shrine but the dynamic and never firm exaltation of the highest inheritance left by the Master: "everything is imagined".
The project, which received funding of 12 million euros from the Mibac, focuses on four parts. The first just approved in its executive phase which, with an amount of 6,360,000 euros, will deal with installations and installations, another three complete the overall intervention: the one called Giardino del Castello (already completed); the step dedicated to Access Fellini Museum - Castel Sismondo (in progress); the fourth divided into the first Connessioni Urbane lot and in the second Piazza Malatesta, both in an advanced stage of design.
Added to these is another intervention funded by the Municipality of Rimini for Palazzo Valloni-Fulgor. All the urban redevelopment projects have been or will be preceded by the complete rebuilding of the existing underground utilities by Hera in collaboration with Adrigas and Enel. The goal of the Museum is to tell the Master's creative and human universe with a huge amount of materials, and more levels of reading and study. Films, of course, related and made to dialogue with other audiovisual sources (documentaries, interviews, archive footage). And along with these are the drawings, the screenplays, the letters, the scores, some props, costumes, to document the quality and originality of the collaborations and the workers involved in each of Fellini's projects.
Among the curiosities to be seen in the 'cinemino' reconstructed on the second floor of Palazzo Valloni, a 'cast' of the original Fulgor, where the 24 official direct films will be screened. In other spaces of the Museum, between Castello and Fulgor cinema, the 300-hour film and unpublished and exclusive footage for the Rimini Museum will be part of the protagonists, conceived and created by Studio Azzurro.
The group of companies and associated firms that won the tender then confronted the eight members of the Museum's technical-scientific committee (Paolo Fabbri, Luca Beatrice, Vincenzo Trione, Stefano Della Torre, Mario Sesti, Laura Delli Colli, Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Sergio Metalli), with the technical component of the Municipality of Rimini and with the high surveillance of the Superintendence of Archeology and Fine Arts. There will be a lot of multimedia that will favor the encounter between tradition and the avant-garde such as the fog of "Amarcord" can almost be touched; the pages of the 'Book of Dreams' which, thanks to a whisper, will be spread virtually into the room. Inside the halls of Castel Sismondo, then, the setting up of real Fellini sets is foreseen, through the reconstruction of scenic materials and the use of the most advanced digital technologies. Within the three floors of Palazzo Valloni-Fulgor, recently renovated, the 'Casa del Cinema' is planned.