Giulio Cesare: Class Mates

In this short documentary, Michelangelo Antonioni enters the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome to contemplate Michelangelo Buonarroti’s statue of Moses. The film consists of Antonioni’s silent observation of the sculpture and the surrounding space, recorded during a visit following the restoration of the monument.

Pietro Coccia (1962-2018) was one of the most talented photojournalists of Italian cinema, with a career that lasted over thirty years. Pietro il Grande is a tribute to the professional photographer and friend of all the leading figures in our cinema over the course of more than three decades: a career reconstructed in about four hundred images accompanied by eight great scores to re-create the special magic of photos of the world of cinema.