Il desiderio di essere inutile - Hugo a Venezia (2026)

The phrase The Desire to Be Useless echoes a well-known saying by Hugo Pratt, carrying a twofold significance. First, it champions comics as a legitimate art form—once dismissed as trivial, yet regarded by Pratt as a medium rich in literary and artistic merit. Second, it embodies a philosophy of life rooted in liberty: a refusal to let existence be flattened into fiction or merchandise, and an embrace of adventure and the unforeseen. Featuring conversations with Patrizia Zanotti, Dominique Petitfaux, Thierry Thomas, and Marco Steiner, this documentary marks the culmination of a twenty-year cinematic quest, reaffirming Hugo Pratt as a towering figure in illustrated storytelling—an artist whose work continues to resonate with today's audiences.