October 31st is the anniversary of Federico Fellini's death, on teacher who has been able to enchant us with his opulent, extravagant, elegant but also mysterious and dreamlike films. Today is also the date of the famous Halloween party and for this reason I would like to recall the more mystical and spiritual side of this director. In Fellini's complex personality it is necessary to understand the starting point, the evolution and the contamination produced by the worlds he touched that we find in every one of his art.
From an early age Fellini had this predisposition for creativity and unconsciously for psychology. He was a skilled portrait painter and cartoonist and this underlines his artistic and figurative inclination. Parallel to his rise as a collaborator and then as a film director, his personality denoted his characteristic traits. Together with the rigid Catholic education he received, he had various interests due to the need to understand more of his own inner world. Fellini has always been attracted by the parallel world, esotericism and everything related to the concept of dreams.
These worlds inspired him a lot, in fact in most of his films we can be overwhelmed by constant symbolism, supernatural scenes and dreams that wander between reality and fiction. The courage and curiosity to explore these new worlds make him distinctive and richer in his cinematic expression. It is precisely these impulses and these visions that characterize and fascinate the public who appreciates and remains enchanted by the beauty of magic too.
In a crucial period of his life Fellini approached the world of psychoanalysis more and more, helping to affirm a new sensitivity in the relationship between art and psychology. This relationship is characterizing for his poetics and has become one of the most significant elements of him passing to a more advanced, more contemporary and visionary level of reflection. It is also known that the teacher was always looking for people who had '' magical '' powers, in fact for a long time he had a deep friendship with the psychic Gustavo Rol and when he approached psychoanalysis he decided to do it with a therapist who used atypical techniques, some of which are closely linked to astrology and the futurist reading of sacred texts such as the I Ching.
Fellini is one of those artists who has widely assimilated the discoveries of psychoanalysis and the paranormal, studying the psychology of the depth and applying it in his films in the most elegant but also bizarre way. Thanks to his ingenuity guided by instinct, the fruit of his work thus turned out and still is a brilliant and futurist art.
