AN ANDALUSIAN DOG, France, 1929
AN ANDALUSIAN DOG France, 1929 Original Title::Un Chien Andalou Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí. Director of Photography: Albert Duverger. Editor: Luis Buñuel. Set Design: Pierre Schildknecht. Cast and Characters: Luis Buñuel (man with the razor), Pierre Batcheff (the cyclist/man), Simone Mareuil (the girl), Jaime Miravilles, Marval (two priests), Fano Messan (androgynous woman), Robert Hommet (man […]
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THE AGE OF GOLD
THE AGE OF GOLD France, 1930 Original title: L’Âge d’Or Story and Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí. Director of Photography: Albert Duverger. Editor: Luis Buñuel. Screenplay: Pierre Schildknecht. Music: Georges Van Parys. Cast and Characters: Lya Lys (the woman), Gaston Modot (the man), Max Ernst (bandit leader), Pierre Prévert (Péman, the bandit), Caridad de Laberdesque […]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: when Cinema meets Poetry – Full retrospective on the centenary of his birth
The Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini The word that Pier Paolo Pasolini always used when referring to his films was “reality”: “Cinema has forced me to work at the level of reality, “inside” reality: when I make a film I am always inside a reality, among the trees, among the people (…); there isn’t a […]
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1. THE CINEMA OF CRUELTY
Pier Paolo Pasolini: when Cinema meets Poetry – Full retrospective on the centenary of his birth1. The Cinema of Cruelty. (2-9 April, 2022) Following the line of André Bazin, he unscrupulously tackles the representation of instinctive, carnal and visceral impulses, even in a dreamlike key. The evocative and functional definition was invented by Truffaut by […]
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What are we talking about when we talk about violence against women? Reflections on a feminist alphabet – International Women’s Day 2022
In collaboration with the General Consulate of Italy in Melbourne, on the occasion of 8 March, a reflection on the intellectual, social and political position of women and men, on sexism, authoritarianism, violence and its opposite. Daniela Brogi, Maria Nadotti, Francesca Rigotti and Isabella Pasqualetto converse starting from a small feminist alphabet of terms that are […]
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The Legionnaire
There’s a battle raging in Rome right now. Thousands of desperate people are forced to occupy empty buildings in order to have a roof over their heads. The police are entrusted with the responsibility of upholding the law and stopping this from happening. Daniel, born in Rome of African parents, grew up in an occupied […]
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Gomorrah (New Edition)
Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the Province of Caserta, between the cities of Aversa and Casal di Principe, have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the system, the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think […]
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Io Sto Bene
Set across two time periods, Io Sto Bene tells the story of Antonio Spinelli who at the end of the 1960s left the catastrophic situation in Italy, along with his cousin and friend, to work abroad. Antonio finds his way to Luxembourg where he meets and falls in love with Mady whom he builds a […]
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Europa
Kamal, a young Iraqi man entering Europe on foot through the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, is captured by Bulgarian border police but escapes, finding himself having to then find a way out in a seemingly interminable forest, where he is wounded and chased by Bulgarian migrant hunters. For three days and three nights Kamal […]
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‘1849-1871. The Jews of Rome between Segregation and Emancipation’. A video-presentation.
An exhibition and a video-project to narrate the unification of Italy, and the contribution of Jewish communities. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Rome as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, the Jewish community of Rome and the Foundation for the Jewish Museum of Rome inaugurate the exhibition ‘1849-1871. […]
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