Federico Fellini: The Book of Dreams

The dream diaries kept by Federico Fellini, in an edition of 1,000 numbered copies.

This is a new deluxe edition of the highly colorful journey into the boundless territory of a genius’s imagination, a work that added a fundamental element to the study of Federico Fellini and his creative experience. From the late 1960s until 1990, the great director used this diary to represent his nocturnal visions in the form of drawings, or, as he described them, “scribbles, rushed and ungrammatical notes.”

Currently on the market as a trade edition, this deluxe version will take the form of a facsimile of the two original books, which are kept in the Rimini Archives and will be exhibited in the new Fellini Museum. This edition will include the two books in their original size, a book with critical essays written for the new edition published in fall 2019, and the transcripts of the dreams together with a lithograph, all packaged in a box.

Auteur
Sergio Toffetti, born in Turin in 1951, was the former president of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema and has published essays on Italian and international cinema as well as film conservation and restoration. Felice Laudadio has been president of the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome since 2016. He has overseen numerous cinema events, such as MystFest, EuropaCinema and RomaFictionFest. Gian Luca Farinelli has been director of the Cineteca of Bologna since 2000. In 1986, together with Nicola Mazzanti, he created Il Cinema Ritrovato, an event dedicated to the history of cinema and the activity of film libraries.