Yuri Ancarani, DA VINCI
May 15, 2024 - May 22, 2024
Department of Robotic Surgery. Using a joystick, a medical surgeon performs an entire operation by controlling the arms of a robot.
"When I entered the operating room, I realized how complex and heavy the role of a surgeon was, then I started filming and that's when I wondered if I should show what I was seeing."
"Da Vinci" is the title of the concluding chapter of the trilogy “The malady of Iron” made by Yuri Ancarani and focused on the theme of work.
Conceived and made as artist's documentaries, the first two chapters, in addition to boasting among other important names, that of Maurizio Cattelan as producer, were presented at the 67th and 68th Venice Film Festivals. The three chapters, finally brought together, will become an episodic feature film that will be presented as a special event special event in 2013.
Da Vinci is a film set entirely inside an operating room, an imaginative journey within of a microcosm in which the hope and expectation perceived from the outside mingle with the lucid and rational lucidity and rationality of the machine and the surgeons operating there.
An unintentional theatricality is triggered by the work process with the timing punctuated by anticipation, moments of pathos, and a familiarity that leads us viewers to be captivated by such serenity and professionalism of the operating room staff.
Ancarani researched and grasped the innovation of the Da Vinci system, which consists of this: the patient's body will never be touched directly by the doctor's hands, but only by the arms of the robot, the Da Vinci precisely. During the course of the entire surgery, it will be the extraordinary images captured by the robot that will guide, in addition to our own, the expert eyes of the surgeon.
The film was presented as a World Premiere on November 15, 2012 at the Rome Film Festival, in the new section titled "21st Century Cinema," in collaboration with MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Arts.
Italy, 25 min colors
No dialogues