Corrispondenze dall’India is a travel report in the form of an art video, made by the director Paolo Brunatto and the painter Emilio Leofreddi. Between 2005 and 2006 Leofreddi spent a year in India to make a set of art carpets inspired by today’s Indian imagery and advertising. During his permanence in India, he made a kind of ideal diary in video format, and sent these video letters to Brunatto in Rome.During the editing work of the videos Brunatto found extraordinary rich material for the dramaturgic construction of this journey which is not only a journey through places, people and things but also a journey of the soul, and he experienced on his own a geographic and inner journey through India. “In this time marked out by a new pollution, the aesthetic pollution, this visual correspondence builds a bridge between West and East giving up any ideology and using an exceptional filter: the emotional look”.

Photography (colour) Emilio Leofreddi
Editing Paolo Brunatto, Ivan Corbucci e Giuseppe Balderi
Music Luigi Ceccarelli,Tonj Acquaviva, Andy Shakty
Production Magazzini Einstein - Rai Educational
Year of production 2006
Running time 39’
Format DV

PAOLO BRUNATTO

Born in Paris and grown up in Florence, he studied Architecture in Geneva. He made his first documentary 1960, Appunti sull’emigrazione - Spagna ’60, awarded as Best Current Affairs Documentary at the IFF in Moscow in 1961. Up to date he made over 500 documentaries, reportages, experimental films and reports for the most important Italyn networks. His works have screened at the main festivals worldwide, and distributed in 26 states.

EMILIO LEOFREDDI

Born 1958 in Rome, where he works as painter and video artist. His work is studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan, Florence and Rome. His works have been acquired by many public and private collections in Italy and abroad.