Video Essay: L’infinito | FILMADRID & MUBI: The Video Essay

Read the introduction to this video essay on MUBI’s Notebook: Video essay by Miguel García Otero. Selected for “The Video Essay,“ a section at FILMADRID Festival Internacional de Cine presented in collaboration with MUBI. “L’infinito“ by Miguel García Otero. In Franco Piavoli’s films there is no concept of scale: the role of things is not determined by their size and the petals of a flower have the same value as the lushest grove. Through ‘Il pianeta azzurro’, ‘l’infinito’ carries out a study of this way of understanding the world as the result of the relationship between the elements that inhabit it, of the part and the whole as inexorably indissoluble elements. The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that has already its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are c