Play-Back#10 Jump!
PLAY-BACK 2021 Teatro contemporaneo italiano / Contemporary Italian Theatre Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Melbourne / Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne Cura di / Curated by Elvira Frosini e Daniele Timpano JUMP! Concept, coreography and direction Marta Bichisao and Vincenzo Schino Performer Samuel Nicola Fuscà, C.L. Grugher, Luca Piomponi, Simone Scibilia Sound Dario Salvagnini Administration […]
Read moreLectures about Dante Alighieri
Lectures about Dante Alighieri As part of the Week of the Italian Language in the World October 18 – From 6.30 PM to 7.30 PM Lecture by Roberto Rea: Amore e ragione nella ‘Vita nuova’ The purpose of this presentation is to emphasise how, in his autobiographical work Vita nuova, Dante bases his path to […]
Read moreThe female face of the Commedia
Lecture by Bianca Garavelli: The female face of the Commedia As part of the Week of Italian Language in the World – XXI Edition Dante’s masterpiece introduces us to a few female figures, not numerous, but still capable of leaving a mark for their poignancy. Some of them forestall current tragic issues, such as feminicide […]
Read moreWasteocene, Storie dal Global Dump
Lecture: Wasteocene, Stories from the Global Dump by Marco Armiero as part of the The Sustainable Development Festival Short bio Marco Armiero is an environmental historian, currently working as the Director of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm. He is also Director of Researcher at the Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean, National Research […]
Read moreCAM’S WAR (La guerra di Cam) by Laura Muscardin – ST.ALi IFF 2021/The Female Lens
CAM’S WAR (2020, 83′, 15+, with English subtitles) screening at the ST.ALi Italian Film Festival 2021. From Official Competition at the Giffoni Film Festival, director Laura Muscardin takes us on perilous adventure, set in the future, in a world where wars and devastating natural disasters have destroyed all human infrastructure and plunged the world into […]
Read moreSIRLEY (MALEDETTA PRIMAVERA) by Elisa Amoruso – ST.ALi IFF 2021/The Female Lens
SIRLEY (MALEDETTA PRIMAVERA) (2020, 94′, 15+, in Italian with English subtitles) screening at the ST.ALi IFF 2021. Upcoming Roman director Elisa Amoruso’s semi-autobiographical fiction debut chronicles a young girl’s plight as she strives to make sense of her place in the world under the not-so-watchful eyes of her dysfunctional parents. It’s 1990 and 13-year-old Nina’s […]
Read moreAmore e ragione nella ‘Vita nuova’
Lecture: Amore e ragione nella ‘Vita nuova’ As part of the Week of the Italian Language in the World The purpose of this presentation is to emphasise how, in his autobiographical work Vita nuova, Dante bases his path to inner regeneration on the quest for a love that is underpinned by the “constancy of reason”. […]
Read morePiano recital by Giuseppe Andaloro
Dante-themed concert with pieces by Marenzio, Luzzaschi, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Bülow-Liszt, Wolf-Ferrari and Liszt. At the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and in collaboration with the Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica (Italian National Music Committee – CIDIM), the pianist Giuseppe Andaloro performs a Dante-themed repertoire at the Sala Verdi of the Milan […]
Read moreWe are the forest – Our special relationship with trees
Lecture: We are the forest – Our special relationship with trees by Giorgio Vacchiano as part of the The Sustainable Development Festival Synopsis: How to restore a happy and healthy relationship with forests? We will explore trees and the forests of the world, learn what they do for us, and walk among the dangers that […]
Read moreIl Gattopardo (The Leopard) by Luchino Visconti
LUCHINO VISCONTI’S ENDURING ROMANTIC ADVENTURE. Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by Luchino Visconti (1963, 185’) In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding […]
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