Verso un cinema estatico. Quando i film vendono la pelle dell'orso e sognano notti di mezza "Estasi"

Starting from the concept of ecstasy elaborated by Sergej M. Ejzenštejn, the paper aims at identifying three points of analysis, on which certain attributes not only of contemporary cinema, but also of the multi–faceted patchwork of the universe of present–day moving– images are based: 1) “Ecstasy” as methodology to address the needs for creative hermeneutics; 2) “Ecstasy” as coalescence and switching of different expressive registers; 3) “Ecstasy” as tension towards the unrepresentability of images.