Ezio Gribaudo

Ezio Gribaudo – Beauty will save us is a biographical documentary that retraces the soul and life of Ezio Gribaudo, artist and art publisher who marked an intense period of creativity in Italian cultural history.
The director and crew tiptoe into the artist's studio to discover his story and the lines of over seventy years of creativity.
Full Version: Beauty Will Save Us

Ezio GribaudoBeauty will save us ” is a biographical documentary that retraces the soul and life of Ezio Gribaudo, artist and art publisher who marked an intense period of creativity in Italian cultural history. Created in association with the Gribaudo Archive, the Patronage of the City of Turin, in collaboration with Milan Foundation and Milanese Civic School “Paolo Grassi” Theater and the Civic School of Interpreters and Translators “Altiero Spinelli”, immortalizes this extraordinary artist now ninety within the walls of his studio. The director and crew tiptoe into the artist’s studio to discover his story and the lines of over seventy years of creativity.

A long filming process behind it: for more than two years, the cameras entered Gribaudo’s studio, filming him without being noticed, and with him they captured canvasses, flani and logogrifi, memoirs, but also dinosaurs, pinocchios, and artefacts from a life that peep out like in a fairytale casket.

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Technical cast

Direction
Alberto Bader

Original music
Enrico Santangelo
Stefano Palmosi

Produced by
Produced by
In collaboration with
l’Archivio Gribaudo
under the patronage of the city of Turin

Italian Distribution
UBU – Milano

International Distribution
Adler & Associates Entertainment Inc.
Los Angeles CA

Check out the minisite dedicated to the documentary

Director's Notes

"Ezio Gribaudo - Beauty will save us" is the result of over two years of work, of shooting between the works and the lived life of this man of art.

The images so real and so metaphorical rival in beauty with the fascination exercised by the texture of his life. We listened to him and he dragged us into the cheerful and exhilarating whirlwind of his experiences. He retraced his artistic parable always dotted with people who gave him the opportunity to renew his passion for art every day by always exploring new unexplored lands. Even today his voice is filled with accents of disbelief and gratitude for the many encounters that have turned from contingent into fateful.

Points of deep intimacy emerge when he alludes to the importance of the experience of the limit to make desire exist. Then, with sobriety and delicacy, he turns off the light on the more private sphere and induces us to look elsewhere. It makes us travel the whole world and for the long last century: from the times when a box of paints was a gift reserved for exceptional occasions, to the effervescent post-war years, up to the present in which humanism seems to have become a bird he doesn't sing... But he immediately regains momentum and praises the saving power of beauty. And he thus takes us back to his world of wonders, with the flavor of an oriental fairy tale, evoked by his story, igniting our imagination.

The ethical strength of his testimony lies in the courage with which he was able to conquer his life and in the fidelity constantly reaching out to the future. In the ninety minutes of watching him, he gives us his most precious legacy, and it's up to us to treasure it.