It is not simply a fortuitous homonymy that Michelangelo Buonarroti and Michelangelo Antonioni share in the title of the short film by the director from Ferrara. It is rather the apex of a journey, the history of an emotion experienced once again after so many years. Antonioni’s tale before Moses – the most deeply-felt work by the Florentine genius – is wholly held in a long gaze. As if Buonarroti wanted to rely on the contemplation of another great artist in order to rejoin his most beloved creature; to live over again in admiring amazement the anguish of a genesis that took him forty years. And Antonioni is ready to this meeting. The great maestro of Italian cinema gets into the church of Saint Peter in Chains after many years; silently crosses the shadowy nave charmed by the ancestral power of this sculpted marble and ravishes us for fifteen minutes of rapt fascination, the same pervading the genius when parting from his work of art. The project for this film – started about two years ago and realized thanks to the notable and sensitive contribution of Istituto Luce – is the culmination of a complex interdisciplinary project, created and managed by Lottomatica, dedicated to the various steps of the restoration of Pope Julius II monumental sepulchre of which Moses represents the most precious element.