OEDIPUS REX (EDIPO RE), Italy/Marocco, 1967
OEDIPUS REX Italy/Marocco, 1967 Original title: Edipo Re Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini, from ‘Edipo Re’ and ‘ Edipo a Colono’ by Sofocle. Art director: Luigi Scaccianoce. Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Set Designer: Andrea Fantacci. Set Designere assistant: Dante Ferretti. Editor:Nino Baragli. Music coordinator: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Music: “Quartet in C Major K […]
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PASOLINI E.. LA FORMA DELLA CITTÀ, Italy, 1974
PASOLINI E.. LA FORMA DELLA CITTÀ Italy, 1974 Director: Paolo Brunatto, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Concept and narration: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screenplay: Paolo Brunatto. Film score: Giuliano Sorgini. Cinematographer: Mario Gianni. Cast and characters: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ninetto Davoli. Production: RAI. Length: 15’. Format: DVD.Under licence from Rai Teche. Original version. In the documentary, Pasolini explains […]
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PASOLINI INTERVISTA EZRA POUND, Italy, 1968
PASOLINI INTERVISTA EZRA POUND Italy, 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound and reads some of his verses. Editing curated by Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini, from the TV program “Un’ora con Ezra Pound” presented by Vanni Ronsisvalle, TV column “Incontri”, presented by Gastone Favero, Rai Radiotelevisione italiana. Length: 23’. Format: DVD. Under licence from Rai […]
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A God in Every Lentil – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI (MDFF sidebars)
ACMI and IIC Melbourne present a double bill of films for the senses from MDFF sidebars: Food (A God In Every Lentil) and Bloom (Flores). A God in Every Lentil (2018, 94′) by Miguel Ángel Jiménez. Luis, a screenwriter who lives in Madrid with his wife Paula and infant son, journeys to Cocentaina, his childhood home in the […]
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The Ship – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and IIC Melbourne present The Ship (La Nave, 2020, 84’) by Hans Wilschut. The residential complex known as Le Vele, in the Naples district of Scampia, is among the most notorious in the history of 20th century Italian architecture. Among the most well known projects of Franz Di Salvo (1913–77), dating back to his involvement […]
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4. REINVENTING MYTH
Pier Paolo Pasolini: when Cinema meets Poetry – Full retrospective on the centenary of his birth4. Reinventing Myth (21-22 May, 2022) The reinvention of the myth brings together films inspired by Greek myths which, in the case of Pasolini, they become the subject of a significant thematic and figurative reinvention: ‘Edipo Re’, ‘Medea’ and ‘Teorema’. And then […]
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NewMuseum(s) – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and the IIC Melbourne present NewMuseum(s), (2018, 45′) by Francesca Molteni.Francesca Molteni’s film explores the aesthetic, social and cultural value of corporate archives and, beyond private institutions, also public museums, which were developed, as London-based architect and exhibition designer Mirko Cerami explains, alongside the development of public parks; both conceived as adding intrinsic value […]
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The Dome – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
Acmi and IIC Melbourne present The Dome (La Cupola, 2016, 71′) by Volker Sottel. An inscrutable child leads us across a rocky outcrop beside turquoise waters to a futuristic house, abandoned now, set against the wild scenery of Sardinia’s Costa Paradiso. The home, we’ll soon learn, was built in the early 1970s, and designed by the […]
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Milano 20/21 – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and the IIC Melbourne present Milano 20/21 (2021, 25′) by Maurizio Dalla Palma. In this free of narration essay-style short film Dalla Palma employs images, ambient sound and music to map how his perceptions of Milan, in Italy’s industrial north, and its surrounds, changed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Recurring images of the city’s Duomo […]
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Disco Ruin – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and the IIC Melbourne present Disco Ruin (2020, 115′) by Lisa Bosi and Francesca Zerbetto. The co-directors survey forty years of Italian club culture, charting the rise and fall of iconic clubs, producers, DJs, styles and genres over four propulsive decades. Taking its starting point in the 1960s – the decade that launched a […]
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