Urban Visions. Visually Researching and Communicating the City

The power of filmmaking as a research and mapping tool stands in the ability to shed light the „potential city“. That means adopting cognitive and experiential strategies aimed at weakening the mechanic, the stereotyped and the self-evident forms of relationship within the urban scenario to bring out the plurality of possible visions of the city. Starting from the definition of the term „potential“ as the search for new structures that give life to new forms of expression, treating usual subjects in an unusual way, we can identify new ways to approach to the research for the everyday city. The potential city is a perfect interactive scenography. The urban environment is a collection of intertwining layers that the filmmaker can be able to give a filmic order to, a laboratory to research diverse and unconventional forms, to read and narrate the signs, traces, stories, actors, and social boundaries.