- 'Manga Do. Igort and the way of manga 'is the journey of Igort, one of the most important Italian graphic novel authors, in the founding places of Japanese culture. The film takes the viewer on the manga's way, whereby 'way', as in the oriental disciplines, is to describe a path taken to transform a technique, that of the graphic novel storytelling, into a practice of improvement.
- 'Manga Do. Igort and the way of manga' is the journey of Igort, one of the most important Italian graphic novel authors, in the founding places of Japanese culture. The film takes the viewer on the manga's way, whereby 'way', as in the oriental disciplines, we want to describe a path taken to transform a technique, that of the graphic novel storytelling, into a practice of improvement. Igort travels with a photographer, a friend who's his guide: from Tokyo to Nagoya, then down along the Kii peninsula to Izumo, where they discover a thousand-year paper-making technique, and then Hiroshima, at the Peace Museum. From this fascinating journey and the variety of his routes, comes the intertwining of Igort's the new book, the 'Japanese Notebooks / second volume' and the film 'Manga Do' which tells its genesis.
Igort draws in his atelier, he sits among the bookshelves and tells how he built the 'Japanese Notebooks' and what made him travel again to Japan, to work on the stories of this new book. He tells his method, the insights that led those themes and stories to intertwine from the moment of the travel until the end of the book: sketches, drawings, drafts, storyboards. He tells us about his experience as an author in that world, the Japanese manga's industry and the differences in the ways of working of Japanese graphic novel designers, his own experience as a designer in Tokyo. The trip to Japan was once again a journey of research, for him a challenge to understand if reality, filtered by his way of looking at things and his own style, can approach and be fed with those same contemplative attitudes of the poetry and paintings from the great Japanese authors of the past. The film is a witness of the traveling and tells the meetings and the Japanese places filtered by the author's own reflections. The film aims to be an interpreter of the point of view of Igort's works, of his own look on those people and places, which would later become part of the storytelling in the book. 'Manga Do' follows the suggestions of the lived reality, reconstructing the visual universe of the author. A red thread unifies the narration: the pages from the 'Japanese Notebooks' that accompany the images of the journey, establishing that delicate dialogue between memory, document, and invention, which characterizes the style and work of Igort.
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