Three nights of films, conferences, installations and events to revive the adventurous story of international cinema in new and surprising forms. A travel into the world of cinema, into the big atlas that has redesigned our image of the earth, from mind to body. A travel to a city, Naples, which has seen the birth of cinema in Italy. First day: maps of the world. Second day: maps of the mind. Third day: maps of the body.
Have a nice trip! Francesco Casetti
SALONE MARGHERITA
Galleria Umberto I
Cinema: Alpha & Omega
The first venue in Italy to host continuous cinematographic projections (March 1896) reopens only for three days to revive the magic of its origins. Next to historic documents of the Salone Margherita and films of those days from Naples, a video installation dedicated to the extremes of cinematographic art: the panoramic views of the Lumière brothers (1895) and the re-visions of contemporary directors (1995); Méliès' first tricks and the magic of Welles; the famous stairs of the Battleship Potëmkin with the homage of the video artist Rybczynski and the dissacration of Fantozzi; the films of surrealism and the masters of avantguard animation (Quay Bros and Jan Svankmajer); a duel of comedy (Keaton versus Belushi), erotic bodies (Riefenstahl versus De Palma), decadent bodies (Visconti versus Ciprì and Maresco); the preview of an experimental video by Maggie Cardelus.
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PAN - PALAZZO DELLE ARTI
Via dei Mille 60
Dean Tavoularis. A myth from Hollywood
An exhibition-event: sketches, designs, artworks of this designer that has created many well-known films such as Zabriskie Point, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now. For the first time these drawings, that have been the origin of many extraordinary films in the past 50 years, are presented in public. All of them have been created by one single artist, Dean Tavoularis, authentic magician of scenic reconstructions and special effects. The sketches of this exhibition come from the Zoetrope Studios of Coppola and from the personal archives of Dean Tavoularis, and have been arranged by Eleni Mustaira and Lena Argiris.
Critics à la carte
The cult critics of Italian cinema - Canova, Fofi, Ghezzi and Mereghetti in the hands of the public in three afternoons of disharmony and syntony.
TEATRO DI CORTE OF PALAZZO REALE
Soirée Godard
Preview of Jean Luc Godard's Notre Musique, lucid view on the world at the beginning of the third millennium: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise between the reality of war, the necessity of poetry, the sacrifice of peace.
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CORTILE D'ONORE OF PALAZZO REALE
Nights of the Imaginary
Three grand nights to celebrate cinema in all its beauty. Writers, artists and personalities from the arts recount the films of their lives: a movie of words. Masters and international movie stars in personalized interviews and exclusive performances: the myth and fairy-tale of cinema with Lucia Bosé, Aurore Clément, Isabelle Huppert. The final with musicians and artists from the international hot spots of culture who re-score masterpieces of cinema: Art Zoyd on Lang, DJ Spooky, Stewart Copeland in preview and Massimo Cavallaro & band on Terra che brucia (documentaries Panaria Film from the ’40). The Don Quixotes of the big screen retold and chanted by Lucio Dalla with Davide Rondoni and Marco Alemanno.
CINEMA
Via Filangieri 43/47
The Marathons
Films from the past and the present with titles to discover and re-discover in surprising combinations, great directors with their most unexpected works. The films of the earth: distant worlds, big adventures and travels. The films of the minds: labyrinths of the soul, challenges, examinations and interior journeys. The films of the body: beauty, power and transformations.
PRODUCTION DATES
Naples, Italy, Salone Margherita, Palazzo Reale, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, 13 - 15 July 2006
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