Fellini sketches to debut at Roman fest

ROME, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A book of dream sketches by the late Italian director Federico Fellini is set to make its official debut at Rome's second annual Film Festival next year.

Italy's ANSA news agency said the two books of the film icon's daily sketches will make their premiere at the annual film festival, which is tentatively scheduled to run Oct. 18-26.

The famed film director and former cartoonist, who died in 1993, had long maintained that the film industry has a direct correlation to the dream world.

"Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another," he said in 1984. "It's a language made of images. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream."

ANSA said the books, which contain approximately 400 drawings by Fellini, were acquired for the festival by one of its directors, Mario Sesti.