Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

INTERNATIONAL DOX: SHORTS

Da Vinci

Italy
2012 — 25' / Color

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Synopsis

Exceptional, cinematic take on the amazing world of the modern operating theatre, in which the patient seems to have only a bit part as all eyes are on the monitor. The final part of Ancarani’s trilogy is set in an operating theatre where a fabulous journey through the human body is undertaken by robot arms, with the surgeon at the joystick. Science fiction-like, it is reminiscent of Fantastic Voyage (1966). Ancarani captures the whole operation with minute precision, beautifully lit (no bloody effects) like a dazzling choreography accompanied by an exciting soundtrack.

Director Biography

Yuri Ancarani is an Italian video artist and film maker. His works come from a continuous mingling of documentary cinema and contemporary art, and are the result of a research aimed to explore regions which are not very visible in the daily life, realities in which the artist delves in first person.

Director

Yuri Ancarani

Producer

Maurizio Cattelan

Cinematographer

Yuri Ancarani

Editor

Yuri Ancarani

Sound

Mirco Mencacci

Contact

Via Tadino 20
20124 Milano
+39 02 87234577
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