Paolo Benvenuti : Il pittore con la macchina da presa

Abstract

The essay analyzes Paolo Benvenuti’s cinema, revealing his poetics suspended between history, painting, and epic theater. Through in-depth interviews, unpublished and archival materials, it reconstructs the originality of an author who conceives cinema as a pedagogical and maieutic act: a tool to inspire reflection and critical thought. Crucial is the rigor in choosing the point of view: every shot becomes an act of deliberate storytelling, where aesthetics and ethics merge into a profound synthesis. Benvenuti thus emerges as “the painter with the camera”, transforming cinema into a timeless space of visual, ethical, and historical reflection.