Cultura audiovisiva e identità degli Stati Uniti d’Europa

Through the summative recapture of the calls that Wim Wenders has been dedicating and addressing to Europe for over thirty years, my essay aims to explore the paradigm according to which, in Wenders’ words, the audiovisual culture awareness can still shape, nurture and forge a sense of unity and integration in the longed-for United States of Europe’s aesthetical and political complex perception. Being multifaceted in its approaches, plural in its idioms and eclectic in its styles, it is precisely the European audiovisual culture, Wenders says, that truly expresses and reflects Europe’s equally heterogeneous identity. Through the various calls here presented, the master filmmaker from Düsseldorf invites to recognize, preserve, teach, and promote the aesthetical and cultural role that audiovisual media play in the development of a knowledge that becomes consciousness, paving a sustainable way to restore European identity. Eventually, the comparative analysis between Wenders’ calls and multidisciplinary considerations on European cultural identity not only substantiates and broadens the issues raised by Wenders, but also foster a multidimensional discussion in the wake of a deliberately multifaceted approach.