From Diary to Moving Image: The Cinema within the Cinema of Angela Ricci Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian

As the film "I diari di Angela" by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, clearly shows the processes of writing, drawing, filming, and editing footage are interconnected in many ways. In the film, diary images and moving images are superimposed, the diary becoming the complementary image of the footage, fostering a new mode of understanding and seeing by processing not only the images themselves, but what underlies them. The chapter focuses on how diaries transmit the presence not only of the hand and the handwriting of Ricci Lucchi, but also of the history of the mental processes which inspired the films of the the couple of the directors and their collaboration.