"We have shared our pictorial and cinematographic world since 1975, though we met some years before. With the sharp eye of two researchers, we study each other's works, and talk about painting and cinema, about how one influences the other, about how they nourish each other in turn. The catalysing moment in our relationship embraces the film '1900', directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (the epic spanning the arc of a century of Italian life) and the painting 'Discussion about forming a cooperative' (the work depicting various people sitting around a large table with, in the center, an overhead lamp illuminating the group gathered around that light). An image imprinted in our memory, which has always been visually linked to the film '1900', since we cannot remember ever having distinguished whether the cinematography was influenced by that painting, or the painting was inspired by the images of the movie. "Parallel text in English and Italian.