Gianfranco Rosi: “I Don’t Make Documentaries, I Make Movies”

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With more than three decades dedicated to cinema, Gianfranco Rosi has built a work that challenges traditional categories. His films, although anchored in the real, avoid the conventional language of the documentary to approach a more open experience, where observation, time and the out-of-field play a central role. In this conversation, the director talks about his creative process, his rejection of rigid structures and the way in which sound a…