L’invenzione delle Alpi is a documentary which, drawing on the director’s personal archive, explores how the contemporary image of the Alps is the result of a long process of material transformations and symbolic representations, which began in the 18th century and continues to this day. Through a narrative that intertwines personal memory and collective history, the film explores two main themes: on the one hand, the explosion of tourism and the processes of mountain urbanisation — with the emergence of integrated ski resorts, modern Alpine architecture and an increasingly intensive exploitation of the landscape — and, on the other, the rediscovery of what the highlands were like before this transformation, marked by hardship, abandonment and an imagery far removed from the idealised narrative.

Archives: In addition to observational footage (around 20–25%), the documentary will be based on film archives. Many of these will be amateur films, such as the Super 8 footage belonging to the director, or material from archives such as Home Movies; others, however, will be professional or semi-professional: Istituto Luce, Museo della Montagna di Torino, Cineteca di Bologna, Fondazione San Paolo, the Regional Archive of Friuli Venezia Giulia, or the Audiovisual Archive of the German Cultural Department in Bolzano; the latter, in fact, also contains a great many family films. There will be limited use of photographs from the director’s archive and from certain collections in which to search for images of structures relating to Alpine Modernism. The period covered by the archive material ranges from the First World War (a crucial moment in the history of the Alps), through the 1930s and then the entire period following the Second World War up to the 1980s.

Lisa Bosi

Lisa Bosi, who trained at the Iuav in Venice, has always been interested in forging connections between architecture, photography, cinema, literature and art. She has taken part in performance art projects developed through artist residencies. As a photographer, she has captured the nightlife scene, with a particular focus on the house and techno scenes.
She wrote and directed the documentary film Disco Ruin, a documentary on Italian club culture over the last 40 years, presented at the Rome Film Festival in 2020. The film is produced by Sonne Film and K+ in collaboration with Sky Arte and with the support of the Film Commissions of Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and Piedmont, and was distributed in Italy by Wanted and internationally by Taskovski Films, as well as being broadcast by Sky. A connoisseur of the nightlife scene, she has collaborated with some of Italy’s most prominent clubs. As an expert on the evolution of club culture, she has been invited to give lectures and talks at art residencies and communication schools, as well as writing numerous articles on the subject. In 2024, she presented the documentary film Going Underground at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, which  traces the evolution of music from punk to house through the story of Gaznevada, one of the most  important Italian new wave bands. The film won the award for Best Documentary at Seeyousound 2025, Best Director at SoundScreen 2025 and Best Film at the Sguardi Altrove Women’s International Film Festival, where it also won the Audience Award. It is currently distributed by Wanted Cinema. 

Giangiacomo De Stefano – Sonne Film 

Sonne Film is an independent production company that has been producing documentaries and television formats since 2010. Founded by director Giangiacomo De Stefano to work on his own films, it has since expanded to produce works by other filmmakers.
The company is active in the production of documentaries and projects for television and cinema, and was among the first in Italy to specialise in cross-media.

Adrialpe Media

AAM Film is a production company based in Vienna, active in the development and production of film and audiovisual projects, with a particular focus on documentary cinema and auteur projects. The company operates internationally, developing and co-producing works in collaboration with European partners and cultural institutions.

K+ srl

K+ is an independent production company based in Verona, active since 2007 in film, television and advertising. Founded by Nicola Fedrigoni, it operates nationally and internationally, collaborating with major production companies and international studios, and developing projects for the cinema market as well as for television platforms and festival circuits.