IIC Melbourne – Tools for After Festival
Human activities have profoundly changed the Earth we live on and upset its balance. Everything around us is different: the past we remember is gone, the present has changed and the future is uncertain. The new order of things is called the Anthropocene, a word that gives voice to truths, fears, doubts, hopes and […]
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Chirality to design peptide nanostructures: from biomaterials to catalysis | Lecture by Professor and scientist Silvia Marchesan in collaboration with the University of Melbourne
The Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne presents ‘Chirality to design peptide nanostructures: from biomaterials to catalysis‘, a lecture by Professor and scientist Silvia Marchesan in collaboration with the University of Melbourne. Tuesday 12 September 2023, 12:00 pm, Theatre (G20), Chemical Engineering 1 (165), The University of Melbourne. In this talk, Prof. Marchesan will discuss the […]
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Silent Divas | Rapsodia Satanica | Film concert
Celebrate Italian silent cinema’s golden age with our Silent Divas film concert featuring live musical accompaniments by trailblazing Melbourne-based female electronic composers. Rapsodia Satanica with live score by Carolyn Schofield Rapsodia SatanicaDirector: Nino OxiliaItaly | 1917 | 50 minsSilent with English subbed Italian intertitlesTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_eu2RuPR3U&ab_channel=CinetecaMilano Rapsodia Satanica’s Faustian tale follows the Countess Alba d’Oltrevita, an […]
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Italian Excellence. Illustrations for Italo Calvino – Eccellenze italiane. Figure per Italo Calvino
The Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne, together with the Italian Studies Program and Archives and Special Collections at The University of Melbourne, is delighted to invite you to the exhibition “Eccellenze italiane. Figure per Italo Calvino – Italian Excellence. Illustrations for Italo Calvino” on the occasion of the centenary of Italo Calvino’s birth promoted worldwide […]
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Silent Divas | Assunta Spina | Film concert
Celebrate Italian silent cinema’s golden age with our Silent Divas film concert featuring live musical accompaniments by trailblazing Melbourne-based female electronic composers. Silent Divas | Film concertAssunta Spina with live score by Maria Moles Assunta SpinaDirector: Gustavo Serena, Francesca BertiniItaly | 1915 | 67 minsSilent with English subbed Italian intertitlesFilm clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYB2VgjI2wU&ab_channel=womenfilmpioneersproject One of the […]
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Festival of Italian Creativity (FIC)
FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN CREATIVITY The Festival of Italian Creativity (FIC) was born as a product of the “Capitals of Creativity” call promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The winners of the first edition, held in 2022 and whose projects will be realised in 2023, were the Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne […]
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«The elsewhere, the other time, the otherwise». Italo Calvino in the World
The Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne and the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics (LLCL) of Monash University are delighted to invite you to the Inaugural Lecture of the European Languages Program dedicated to Italo Calvino (1923-1985), on the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of his birth promoted worldwide by the Italian Ministry […]
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Phenomena | MIFF 2023 | IIC Melbourne
PhenomenaDir. Dario Argento – Italy, SwitzerlandThis oeuvre of outré, starring a then-14-year-old Jennifer Connelly, is widely regarded as one of Dario Argento’s most eccentric and bizarre films. Jennifer Corvino, the daughter of a famed American movie star, is sent to study at the Richard Wagner Academy for Girls in Switzerland. Once there, she finds herself in […]
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Tenebrae | MIFF 2023 | IIC Melbourne
TenebraeDir. Dario Argento, ItalyInspired by the director’s own brush with an obsessive fan, this stylish slasher offers metacommentary on sexism and screen violence. American crime writer Peter Neal is greeted in Rome not only by a cavalcade of attentive journalists but by two detectives investigating a homicide. A woman’s throat has been slit, mimicking a […]
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The Black Cat | MIFF 2023 | IIC Melbourne
The Black CatDir. Dario Argento Italy, USAHarvey Keitel stars in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of obsession and violence, nowsplendidly restored by Cinecittà. Rod Usher (Keitel) is no stranger to the dark and gruesome; he’s frequently called on by local police to documenthorrific crime scenes. But when his girlfriend Annabel, a violinist, brings […]
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