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"Ever since 1893, when Thomas Edison opened Black Maria, the world's first film-production studio in West Orange, New Jersey, the structural apparatus around making a motion picture\u2014lighting, set design, costume design, art direction\u2014has been an integral part of cinema.\n\nWith the advent of digital technology, full-scale studio-built environments that encompass entire cinematic worlds are becoming both too costly and not \"real\" enough. The virtual has begun to replace the physical behind the scenes.\n\nPinterestFacebookChandeliers Ferretti created for *Sal\u00F2* (1975) on display.\n\n Photo: Jonathan Muzikar, \u00A9 The Museum of Modern Art, New York\n\nIn \"Design and Construction for the Cinema,\" the Museum of Modern Art in New York honors Dante Ferretti, an Italian production designer and art director who began his career in the late 1960s as a prot\u00E9g\u00E9 of Federico Fellini and who draws influence from the trailblazing reign of the great film studios. In the past four decades Ferretti has collaborated with the likes of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Anthony Minghella, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Franco Zeffirelli. He has won three Academy Awards, for his work on The Aviator, Sweeney Todd, and Hugo.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe train-station clock Ferretti designed for 2010's *Hugo.*\n\n Photo: Jonathan Muzikar, \u00A9 The Museum of Modern Art, New York\n\nViewers of the exhibition will be privy not only to a number of Ferretti's drawings and design objects, but also to a labyrinth of screens showing highlights of his work. Some say that cinema itself is dying\u2014Ferretti is an example of the bridge that many talented art directors are making between the old world of studio productions and the new one of constructed digital environments.\n\nPinterestFacebookFerretti's sketch for the interior of the Roman senate for the 1998 movie *Titus.*\n\n Image courtesy of Dante Ferretti\n\nThrough February 9, 2014, at the Museum of Modern Art; moma.org"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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