-WHO’S ALESSIA BICOCCHI?

I’m a writer, but I work mainly on projects about illustration and visual arts in general. My creative soul is in perfect balance with other activities I have carried out in the world of academic research, thanks to my socio-economic PhD with the aim of creating new business models following the community example of Adriano Olivetti and William Morris.

-WHEN’S BORN YOUR PASSION FOR FEDERICO FELLINI’S CINEMA?

I also studied film directing at university because I had the dream of becoming a director of photography. The lessons took place at the Cinema Meliere in Pisa, which was a very strong symbolic place, being the oldest cinema, the first theater in Italy where you could go to see the first films of the time. Shortly after, I started shooting my documentaries and a few years later I even became a journalist, creating reports for the tv-news.

My visceral passion for cinema began as early as childhood, when I watched hours and
hours of films by Federico Fellini, Ettore Scola, Silvano Agosti, Dario Argento, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Francis Ford Coppola and many others, all night long.

-WHAT INSPIRED THE IDEA OF DEDICATING A BOOK TO THE ART AND PERSONALITY OF FEDERICO FELLINI?

Thirty years after the death of the great director Fellini, deeply in love with the Mystery that envelops life, my book “Federico Fellini researcher of the invisible” investigates the most intimate and hidden face of Federico as a man, immersed in an incessant research on the “invisible world” which involved every aspect of his days, between oriental disciplines and new frontiers of scientific discoveries. Nourishing his soul and his film with this wandering in magical and esoteric realities, outside and inside the film sets,
Fellini studied tarot-cards and I-Ching, consulted the great psychic Gustavo Rol and mystical healers of the Emilian lands, wrote down dreams and mandalas, organized séances and psychoanalysis meetings, lost himself in Mexican shamanic journeys with the artist Milo Manara, immersing himself in mediumistic phenomena in every nuance. All aimed at revealing his deepest inner sky that would lead him to spiritual enlightenments and revolutions.

-DO YOU THINK THAT TODAY FEDERICO FELLINI WOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE HIS FILMS OR WOULD HAVE DIFFICULTIES DETERMINED BY POLITICALLY CORRECT?

Currently, art has been deprived of its most important component: dissent, revolutionize and form critical mass. It’s all standardized in suffocating constraints that don’t allow the development of personalities like Federico Fellini, a free thinker.

-PROJECTS YOU’RE WORKING ON?

Both in the artistic and corporate fields, I’m working on projects that can lead me to create my own cultural events company (also dedicated to cinema).

-IMPRESSIONS ABOUT WILD FILMMAKER?

It’s important the idea of creating a horizontal, artistic and professional community that challenges the classic system of production, because we have to find and help other directors as Fellini out there in the world.