The Riddle

The Riddle.

“It is always, out eyes alone, our way of looking at things. Nature alone knows what she means now, and what she had meant in the past“. (J.W. Goethe – Aphorisms on Nature)

Director.

Francesco Dongiovanni (1978) lives and works in Apulia (Italy). He has been interested in ethnology, landscapes, archive, memory and anthropological cinema for a long time. He works for the production company Murex, which he founded with his collaborators. His filmography also includes the medium-lenght films: Happiness Is a Densely Unpopulated Place, Elegies from the Beginning of the World – Of Men and Trees , Giano and Anapeson – Sleepless. His last short films are Studio (2016), co-produced by The Open Reel, and The Riddle (2017). In 2019, he directed the feature documentary Days and Works.