Storyboards by Master Filmmakers to Showcase in Prada Foundation Exhibition
Over 50 renowned filmmakers and animators, including Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Federico Fellini, Steven Spielberg, Wes Anderson, and Alfred Hitchcock, will have their storyboards exhibited in "A Kind of Language: Storyboards and Other Renderings for Cinema."
Beginning on January 30 at the Prada Foundation's Osservatorio in Milan, the exhibition will showcase over 800 mood boards, drawings, and sketches created between the late 1920s and 2024. Curated by Aperture Foundation editor-at-large Melissa Harris, the immersive experience will recreate the atmosphere of a storyboard artist's workspace with drafting tables and an open layout.
Storyboarding plays a crucial role in filmmaking, as it visually establishes scenes, guides narrative flow, and captures the essence of specific segments, explains Harris. It also provides visual references for actors and troubleshooting.
Alongside the aforementioned masters, the exhibition will feature storyboards by Pedro Almodóvar, Ingmar Bergman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luis Buñuel, Charlie Chaplin, Sofia Coppola, Cecil B. de Mille, Jonathan Demme, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Luc Godard, Renny Harlin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Agnès Varda, Wim Wenders, and Akira Kurosawa.
Prada's ties to the film industry extend beyond this exhibition. The fashion house has collaborated with the Venice Film Festival's Venice section to produce "The Miu Miu Women's Tales" series of short films by female directors. Prada has also expanded its cinematic involvement through its foundation, an art center established in a former distillery designed by Rem Koolhaas and featuring a Wes Anderson-designed bar, Bar Luce.