"The Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies Mondo 3 of RAI Educational, invited me to give an interpretation to one of the many texts of the great world literature, chosen by an international committee of experts, to be inserted then, with other testimonies, within a Multimedia Encyclopedia that was being created. I chose Italo Calvino's “Le città invisibili” whom I already loved and which, due to his visionary way, I felt particularly close. From a stylistic point of view I chose the drawing on paper, I was interested in the fluid sense of the story, the dreamlike magic of memory in the repeated rhythm of time.
Then the real reappears that leads the viewer back to the sheet of paper that reveals the everyday by exhibiting the construction processes of the film: the drawings inside the frame reveal the identification numbers of the scenes, the names of the cities, in short, the daily recaptures it. space." M.Manfredi