Eleonora Vallone

Water flows and feeds us, the Cinema tells our life flowing  

Eleonora Vallone

Her encounter with water represents the demarcation line between her artistic career and that of promoter and driving force in the field of water aerobics, of which Ms Vallone is a veritable pioneer.

Over the years, her intense and emotional relationship with this element has developed an increasingly close bond between herself and water, and is documented in
her five publications.

This constant source of inspiration could not but emerge in the other great passion and love of her life that is cinema. Having been born into and brought up in a family of extraordinary protagonists in the history of Italian cinema, the natural outlet of this exceptional bond has given rise to an extremely ambitious project like the AquaFilmFestival, which she has organized with passion and determination.

Cinema and water have always shared an original bond dating back to the Lumière brothers. The work of Jean Renoir is also strongly characterized by the liquid element, to the point that the French director himself clearly states in his memoirs: «Je ne conçois pas le cinéma sans eau».

Finally, it is impossible not to quote Andrej Tarkovskij, whose poetic art is influenced in every respect by the presence of water in all its forms. There are endless other examples bearing witness to the indissoluble link between water and the Seventh Art.

From all these impulses, Eleonora Vallone has managed to create an existentialistic and professional path which has given rise to the idea of the Festival, the sources of which, it must be said, draw strength from her pure and boundless love for the element of water.