Films byTexts by Federico Fellini
FILM
The Clowns
Federico Fellini, 1970, 92’

By observing and talking to current and former practitioners of the profession, Fellini and a comically clumsy film crew investigate the director’s childhood obsession: the circus clown.

 

FILM
Federico Fellini, 1972, 117’

This urban fantasia interweaves recollections of the director’s young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are gathering footage of the bustling cityscape.