All the Knowledge in the World

Colour, 35mm
Italy, 2000, 99 min
Section: Another View

Synopsis

A student in love with a philosophy professor, a man in a wheelchair who yearns to walk again, a young man who becomes a pop star and desperately seeks spiritual guidance. . . . All these bizarre characters experience bizarre situations, they meet each other and then disappear. And then there’s the mysterious torch-bearer who perhaps doesn’t exist . . . . “It’s difficult to define the character in my film since it treats several genres,” says its maker. “Without resorting to illusion, I aimed to describe the endless quest for answers to fundamental questions such as who we are and what we are doing in this world. And I chiefly wanted to capture everything which discourages us from asking these questions and prevents us from finding the answers.”

About the director

Eros Puglielli (b. 1973, Rome) studied at the film college Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia from 1994 to 1996. He began making shorts in 1990, such as Assunta, Mice (I topi), The Placebo Effect (Effetto Placebo), Dream Lunch (Pranzo onirico) and Tales of Baldassare (1997, Racconti di Baldassare). He also makes videos and commercials. All the Knowledge in the World is his first feature.