Enrica Fico Antonioni on Life with Michelangelo, New Super 8 Footage, and the AnimaNatura Foundation

Key facts

• Enrica Fico Antonioni gave an interview to Giuditta Elettra Lavinia Nidiaci for Collezione da Tiffany.
• She discovered about an hour of Super 8 footage shot by Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of 'Zabriskie Point'.
• The Super 8 footage includes rare images of Antonioni himself, as he usually avoided being filmed while working.
• The footage inspired a live concert project called 'Around Zabriskie Point', performed at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome.
• Antonioni resumed painting in the last decade of his life, producing works until fifteen days before his death.
• An exhibition of Antonioni's paintings was held in Rome with an installation by Renzo Piano; a new show is planned at the Cinemà gallery in Paris.
• Fico Antonioni recognized the same silent magnetism in a lion named Mihal at the Fondazione AnimaNatura as in her late husband's eyes.
• After Antonioni's stroke in 1985, they communicated through a subtle code of gestures, glances, and sighs.
• Approximately 7,000 pieces of Antonioni's artistic research have been donated to Ferrara.
• The Spazio Antonioni in Ferrara, designed by Fico Antonioni, is a non-traditional museum space without fixed walls.
• The twentieth anniversary of Antonioni's death will be next year.
• Fico Antonioni admires painter Afranio Metelli for his intellectual honesty, similar to Antonioni.
• She believes 'Zabriskie Point' remains remarkably relevant today.
• Antonioni was a pioneer in using electronics and color manipulation in 'Il mistero di Oberwald'.
• Fico Antonioni practices meditation and yoga, which helped her stay close to Antonioni.