Cinema as a vocation: here is a possible opening to the present essay by Maurizio Fantoni Minnella who, with sure verve literary, infuses the first chapters of the book with the taste of a discovery, of an epiphany, that of the cinematographic imaginary with its mythology rutilante that alternates since the legendary era of silent, complexity and lightness, commitment and escape. But it is the discovery of the different languages of vision that drives the creativity, the passion and the cultural commitment of the author, for almost a lifetime.