CENTER FOR ITALIAN STUDIES
FILM
STUDIES PROGRAM
at the
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
in collaboration with
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
present
NEW AUTHORS OF ITALIAN CINEMA
AN ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Fourth Edition
A FREE ADMISSION FILM FESTIVAL
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian
Film Festival, Fourth Edition is a collaboration among the Center
for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, International
House of Philadelphia, and the Italian Agency Italia Cinema. The festival
has as its purpose to bring to the viewing Philadelphia public those
new efforts on the part of Italy's growing pool of talented filmmakers.
Contemporary Italian film is continuously breaking new ground both
technically and textually. Young filmmakers, as well as seasoned professionals,
heed the call of new, creative explorations into the myriad facets
of Italian history and culture. Thus, films dealing with such apparently
disparate subjects as AIDS, charmingly disaffected youth, and violent
psychological repression. The dynamic wellspring of Italian cinematic
productivity also ventures into the experimental, bending time, narrative
and identity, and utilizes dazzling technological advances to produce
unforgettable visual evocations. Our Fourth Edition of New Authors
of Italian Cinema, will offer as one of its highlights a panel discussion
including Millicent Marcus, Director of the Center for Italian Studies
and Film Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Victoria
Kirkham, Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania,
Antonio Monda, Professor of Film Studies at New York University.
NOVEMBER 20 - 24, 2002
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
3701 CHESTNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
8:00 pm - Welcoming Remarks
Millicent Marcus and Nicola M. Gentili, Center for Italian Studies
Set in Naples in the eighties, this is the story of
Tony, Antonio Pisapia, born in Naples on August 15, 1934, a professional
singer, and Antonio Pisapia, a professional footballer, born in Narni
Scalo, also on August 15, 1949. One is an over-confident egotistical
megalomaniac while the other is shy, humble, obsessive and difficult
to get along with. We first encounter them in 1980, at the height
of their success, then fast-forward to 1984, Tony is unable to recoup
anything of his former glory. Antonio simply cannot fit in anywhere.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21
8:00 pm - Film Screening
GIORNI
(DAYS)
Directed by Laura Muscardin
Claudio works as a bank manager and has been HIV positive
for ten years. He has a long standing, stable relationship with Dario.
Claudio meets Andrea, a cheerful young man who works as a waiter in
a restaurant. Andrea does not protect himself, does not accept any
limits, and in fact, goes beyond, knocking down the barriers Claudio
has built up over the years.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
8:00 pm - Panel Discussion
Millicent Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania
Antonio Monda, New York University
Cinisi, a small Sicilian seaside town in the province
of Palermo, is the home of a mafia family, the Impastatos. Young Peppino
Impastato is everyone's favorite child. When Peppino grows up, he
refuses to accept his father taking orders from the mafia. Together
with a group of friends, he opens a private radio station called Radio
Aut, where he becomes the voice of truth and reason. Peppino's father
throws Peppino out of the family home, but defends him to his "family"
bosses and makes a pact that nothing will happen to his son while
he is alive.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23
"Every day it's the same idiotic race. I get up at
five, wash, shave, make a coffee and leave, I run to the main square,
catch the bus, close my eyes and am seized by all the horror of my
present life." Tobias Horvath lives in Switzerland and has been working
in a watch factory for over ten years. Born "in a village without
a name, in a country without importance" in Eastern Europe, he spends
his childhood in misery. Tobias flees to the West, in a desperate
attempt to escape his past. Tobias seeks refuge in his writing and
waits for the coming of his imaginary beloved, Line. One day the real
Line appears: Caroline.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Andrea, a 27-year-old university graduate, is full
of hope but doesn't have any real prospects for changing his life.
He has two best friends, his roommate Bart, a lazy but delightfully
streetwise good-for-nothing, and Lucia, an Italo-Indian girl with
a very complicated love life. Andrea's life proceeds in a state of
perpetual adolescence until he meets Dolores.
ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT
THE
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
3701 CHESTNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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