Montparnasse 19 (Les amants de Montparnasse) by Jacques Becker, Max Ophüls
Marking the centenary of the death of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), the Italian Cultural Institutes in Melbourne and Sydney organize a double event: the online screening of Montparnasse 19, film by Jacques Becker (Thursday 9th July) and a lecture online, Modigliani: A Bohemian Life by the art historian Dr. Roberta Crisci (Thursday 16th July). Montparnasse 19 […]
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Fellini Retrospective: The White Sheik (1952)
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great master of Italian cinema. “The White Sheik” opens the Fellini retrospective organized by Classic Cinemas and promoted by the IIC Melbourne in collaboraton with the IIC Sydney. The film will be screening at the Classic Cinemas Elsternwick to an audience. The IIC Melbourne […]
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#PlayBack: “Orchidee” by Pippo Delbono
ORCHIDEE (Orchids)conceived and directed by Pippo Delbono Pippo Delbono // Orchidee (2013) from Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione on Vimeo. “I still can write of love”, Dario Bellezza, a poet, great friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, once wrote as AIDS was killing him. The orchid is the most beautiful flower and the most wicked […]
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#PlayBack: “Dopo La Battaglia” by Pippo Delbono
DOPO LA BATTAGLIA (After the Battle)conceived and directed by Pippo Delbono Pippo Delbono // Dopo la battaglia (2011) from Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione on Vimeo. Watching Pippo Delbono’s latest work, we find ourselves at the beginning of a visionary journey, at the threshold of a sequence of frames, in the body of a dramaturgy […]
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#PlayBack: “Vangelo” by Pippo Delbono
VANGELOconceived and directed by Pippo Delbono Pippo Delbono / / Vangelo (2016) from Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione on Vimeo. Pippo Delbono has been experimenting on stage for many years now, exploring the fertile ground between public and personal, between autobiography and history, shaping works that stand out on the international scene for their […]
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#PlayBack: “Questo buio feroce” by Pippo Delbono
QUESTO BUIO FEROCE (This Fierce Darkness)conceived and directed by Pippo Delbono Pippo Delbono // Questo buio feroce (2006) from Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione on Vimeo. Questo buio feroce, written and directed by Pippo Delbono in 2006, is the show that fearlessly facesthe taboo of the Death, hurling the audience into a white set, […]
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These Digital Times #2
These Digital Times is a free, online music festival presented by the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. The festival will feature a stellar line-up of Australian and international artists live streamed on the last Saturday of May, June and July. That’s three days of incredible live music in the comfort of your home and a much […]
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Michelangelo: the power of the body
Restless, passionate, fearless, Michelangelo Buonarroti is an artist of a thousand contradictions, always balancing between ruin and a blaze of glory. He feels an undeniable need to work, he can’t live without a chisel in his hand. Everyone knew him, many admired him, others were his enemy. The passion that dominates him carries him to love life […]
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“Doctor Li and the crown-wearing virus” – a conversation with Francesca Cavallo and Ailsa Wild.
Doctor Li and the crown-wearing virus is a children’s book about the first hero of this pandemic, Chinese ophthalmologist Doctor Li Wenliang. It is written by NYT bestselling author Francesca Cavallo (co-author of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls) and illustrated by Claudia Flandoli. The book was first released for free on Cavallo’s website as […]
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Short Film Day [Southern Hemisphere] – online
Marking the winter solstice or the shortest day of the year on the 21st June, the IIC Melbourne presents the Short Film Day [Southern Hemishere]: a fine selection of contemporary Italian shorts will be available online on 21st June 2020, in collaboration with the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio (Italian Short Film Center) The Centro Nazionale […]
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