The camera movements also create ambiguity between Guido and Fellini, thus taking self-reference from a step outside the creators’ work. The sailor performed the soft shoe dance in all the screen tests for roles in the films the audience saw. The audience saw how everything Guido said about the film he made was confirmed from the film. Through self-references and beginnings, the film tells the story of the making of the film. Therefore, it is the number eight and a half film in his catalog. In the ’60s, Fellini made less than seven and a half films. The film surpassed its predecessors in making itself the subject of cinema and filmmaking. Federico Fellini’s 8½ explores the philosophy of film how modernism reflects art into intertextuality despite the confusing title.
