In 1986 you made the film “Return to Khodorciur”. It also shows that the state of the ice now is completely different. The film is about Baron Franchetti, and also shows the hunt of the bears in the South Pole. It is about Africa and Uganda in 1910, and it is possible to see the big game hunt of the white hunters. It is divided in ten sections, and it is about the South Pole and the Equator before the First World War. What is “From the Pole to the Equator” about? They loved the film, and then the film started to travel in the US, and The New York Times and The Village Voice wrote about it. It was discovered by the Wallers, two cinema critics from Variety who came out from the German camp. “From the Pole to the Equator” is the title and it was shown for the first time at the festival in Rotterdam. It took five years, and we finished in 1986. We shot almost 500,000 single shots, like an animation. With parts of a 35mm projector we built an optical printer that we called “our analytical camera”, and with this camera, frame by frame, we re-filmed all the bits of interest in 16 millimetres. We discovered that the nitrate material was inflammable and dangerous, and it was impossible to make prints as the films were in total decomposition, so we spent a long time observing and describing all the frames with the help of a magnifying lense. In an old film lab in Milan we found the archive collection of the filmmaker who filmed the Italian royal family, the Savoias, and World War 1. We came back to Milan from the US in 1981. We went on long tours to places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. We went on tour in the US with the “scented films” at the Jonas Mekas Anthology Film Archives in New York. The film was shown in London in 1979 at the International Avant Garde Film Festival. Lombroso found out that a criminal man has not the same sense of smell as a normal man, and that a criminal woman has even worse “anosmia” (the loss of the sense of smell). The film was shown accompanied by the scent of carnations and a text by a follower of Lombroso named Strassman. In 1976 we also made the film “Cesare Lombroso – Sull’odore del garofano” about the criminologist Cesare Lombroso who studied the olfactory sensitivity of criminals by testing their reactions to essence of carnations. We made many films with these objects accompanied by scents, and showed them at Biennale Cinema in Venice in 1976.
With the “scented films” about our large collection of simple toys in painted wood. I had a house here, and then we married here.
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