What is neorealism?

A cinema experiment: what rival visions would emerge if you pitted the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind on the same movie material? History can tell us…

A video essay by kogonada for Sight & Sound's 2013 Deep Focus season on The Roots of Neorealism.

Read kogonada's accompanying essay: http://bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/video-essay-what-neorealism

See our full Roots of Neorealism feature: http://bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/deep-focus/roots-neorealism