Cinema
A new appointment with Federico Fellini organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal:
Presentation of the book by Marco Bertozzi L'Italia di Fellini. Immagini, paesaggi, forme di vita and screening of the documentary film by Paul Tana Fellini premières fois.
L'Italia di Fellini, paesaggi, forme di vita, Marsilio, Venice (2021)
From the genius of Federico Fellini, the invention of Italy in the twentieth century. One hundred years after his birth and almost thirty after his death, Marco Bertozzi's book illuminates the director's inexhaustible ability to narrate his characters, raising aspects of the deep unconscious. An aesthetic shock that trained us on the complexity of the country, its mixture, its magical impurity. Alien from nationalistic stereotypes or immovable categories of Italianity, Fellini crosses universes of cultural proximity and intimacy by immersing himself in unprotected knowledge, in curious questioning, in the encounter of multiple anthropological landscapes. And, without binding ideological presuppositions, he carves one of the most acute portraits of contemporary Italy.
Fellini premières fois (2020)
1957: Claude Jutra and Michel Brault interview Federico Fellini in New York. It is around this singular interview that “Fellini first times” is built. Québec filmmakers from several generations recount their first encounter with Fellini's films. The documentary celebrates this great artist and highlights his extraordinary creative freedom: for all these directors, this is the most important legacy of the master.
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from 12/04/2022 to 12/04/2022 hour 18.30
Marco Bertozzi teaches Cinema at the IUAV University of Venice and is part, with Studio Azzurro and others, of the team that designed the Federico Fellini International Museum in Rimini. In addition to several essays on the director's work, he edited "Bibliofellini", the international bibliography in 3 volumes, published by the Fellini Foundation and the National School of Cinema (2002-2004). With Marsilio he published "History of the Italian documentary" (2008), "Recycled cinema" (2012), "Documentary as art" (2018). Filmmaker - his latest films "Cinema Skyscraper" (2017) and "I Woke Up" (2020) - has curated film art exhibitions, in Italy and abroad, and hosted "Cortoreale. The years of the Italian documentary", a program for Rai Storia on Italian non-fiction.
Paul Tana is a Québec director of Italian origin who lives and works in Montreal. His feature films deal with issues related to immigration: identity, belonging, marginalization. Among his most important titles: “Caffè Italia Montréal” (1985), “La sarrasine” (1992) “La déroute” (1998). is the fourth film of a documentary approach that uses various materials (archives, interviews, drawings, animations, voiceovers, musical minimalism) to create short films. He is an associate professor at the École des médias de l'UQAM.
