City: Rome
Country: Italy
Engineering: ENETEC SRL
Architectural Design: Carlo Carreras, Dante Ferretti
Photo: Germano BorrelliJuly 24 marks the inauguration of the new Cinecittà World, the first movie-themed amusement park by Dante Ferretti (three-time Oscar winning set designer), lit entirely by Targetti LEDs.

The 150 hectare park includes twenty attractions inspired by scenes from famous films created in the Cinecittà studios in Rome, like Gangs of New York, Ben-Hur and Dante’s Inferno, along with studios, laboratories and restaurants. The park construction and engineering phase, which lasted about 3 years, paid close attention to environmental sustainability by enhancing the existing green area in this location with its interesting landscape full of cork trees.

This was the key aspect Targetti used as a base for its operation. The company skilfully used light to highlight the green area and the stage settings of the various attractions to insure their powerful scenographic impact and period atmosphere. “Cult” settings from Ancient Rome to Western charm and on up to Science Fiction are all portrayed by lighting based only on LED sources and a skilful use of colour that helps recreate the most exciting moments from epic films.

Targetti lighting is thus responsible for enhancing this continuous dialogue between dreams and reality and between myth and history in which contrasts and colour variations are used to reveal or hide the magic of the cinema and the fun to be had in the real world.