Damian Pettigrew

"IRS-RSI - Storyboard sketches from Fellini: I'm a Born Liar"

"The single greatest influence on my work as a filmmaker has been the celebrated Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester. Sylvester is a master of the art of complicity: he knows how to manipu…"

"St Louis Post-Dispatch Harper Barnes: "A Work of Art"

"A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process…"

"Without once compromising his artistic integrity, Fellini imagined a body of work -- as opposed to a suite of spin-offs, remakes, potboilers and so on -- where each production can be ranked as among t…"

"The first documentary I saw as a child was Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North broadcast one Sunday afternoon. Nanook enchanted me by his courage to smile in a frozen wasteland, and by the simple fa…"

"With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are…"

"To my delight, Federico had seen Dans la ville blanche by Swiss director Alain Tanner. Enthusiastic about Bruno Ganz’s performance, he also was impressed by the film’s startling visual poetry of Lisbo…"