The Central Public Library is hosting the San Diego Italian Film Festival "Foreign At Home: Italian Expatriate Cinema."
The selection of films is curated by Marco Bertozzi, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) & Pasquale Verdicchio, UC San Diego & SD Italian Film Festival. The films selected for this two day festival-within-a-festival are the fruit of a diversified migration and the evolution of a vibrant italic culture outside of Italy.
The directions in which Italian film moves today include the places that received a large portion of its migrated populations, both before and after the so-called economic boom of the 1960s. Bertozzi and Verdicchio have selected films by directors of Italian origins who live and work outside of Italy, and who have cast their gaze back on their country of origins in the hope that the returned gaze might offer up a different perspective on Italian society, the lives of those who once made the peninsula their home, and the directions that the country has taken in recent history.
The films will be introduced and discussed by the Quebecois film maker Paul Tana, film-maker and professor Marco Bertozzi, and Prof. Pasquale Verdicchio. The screening will conclude with a roundtable discussion/question-answer period in which the public is invited to participate.
Films:
"Videocracy" - Erik Gandini (Sweden), 2009, 85 minutes
"L?argent Raconte? Aux Enfants" - Claudio Pazienza (Belgium), 2002, 52 minutes
?Armando E La Politica? - Chiara Malta (France) 2008, 73 minutes
Guest appearances part of the Anita Laing Memorial Documentary Project. Additional support from the Linnie Cooper Foundation.
Admission/Cost: $5
Location:
Central Public Library
330 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101
Sunday, October 27 ? 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
The selection of films is curated by Marco Bertozzi, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) & Pasquale Verdicchio, UC San Diego & SD Italian Film Festival. The films selected for this two day festival-within-a-festival are the fruit of a diversified migration and the evolution of a vibrant italic culture outside of Italy.
The directions in which Italian film moves today include the places that received a large portion of its migrated populations, both before and after the so-called economic boom of the 1960s. Bertozzi and Verdicchio have selected films by directors of Italian origins who live and work outside of Italy, and who have cast their gaze back on their country of origins in the hope that the returned gaze might offer up a different perspective on Italian society, the lives of those who once made the peninsula their home, and the directions that the country has taken in recent history.
The films will be introduced and discussed by the Quebecois film maker Paul Tana, film-maker and professor Marco Bertozzi, and Prof. Pasquale Verdicchio. The screening will conclude with a roundtable discussion/question-answer period in which the public is invited to participate.
Films:
"Videocracy" - Erik Gandini (Sweden), 2009, 85 minutes
"L?argent Raconte? Aux Enfants" - Claudio Pazienza (Belgium), 2002, 52 minutes
?Armando E La Politica? - Chiara Malta (France) 2008, 73 minutes
Guest appearances part of the Anita Laing Memorial Documentary Project. Additional support from the Linnie Cooper Foundation.
Admission/Cost: $5
Location:
Central Public Library
330 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101
Sunday, October 27 ? 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
