Dante e il cinema
[20-3-2001]
Dear Colleague,
I am sending you as part of this e-mail a press release for, and information on, an upcoming Conference and Film Festival, entitled «Dante and Cinema.» I should appreciate it greatly if you could bring it to the attention of your readers/listeners/members.
If you have additional questions, or if you require further information, please phone the Humanities Centre at (416)978-7415. Should you choose to provide more extensive coverage, Professor Amilcare A. Iannucci, the Director of the University of Toronto Humanities Centre, would be happy to meet with you, preferably over lunch, and provide you with an overview of the work of the Humanities Centre and its role in providing the genesis and overall guidance for the «Dante and Cinema» Conference and Film Festival. Please feel free to phone the Centre and arrange an appointment.
Sincerely,
John Tulk
Assistant to the Director
University of Toronto Humanities Centre
*****PRESS RELEASE*****
The University of Toronto Humanities Centre, in conjunction with Cinematheque Ontario, the Film Studies Program at Innis College and the Italian Cultural Institute, is pleased to announce a Conference and Film Festival, «Dante and Cinema.»
The influence of Dante (1265-1321), author of the Comedy and the Vita Nuova, has extended deep into the modern world, being a major source of inspiration for numerous literary and artistic works. Most studies have focussed on Dante's influence in these areas and have not explored Dante's impact on the modern visual arts, especially cinema and television. The Conference and Film Festival will assess Dante's influence on cinema, both the silent and sound periods, and will, hopefully, justify Gian Piero Brunetta's claim that Dante can be regarded as «the father of cinema.»
The conference will take place at University College, University of Toronto and will continue over a three day period, beginning March 30. Including film archivists, film historians, filmmakers, Dante and literary scholars, the conference will approach Dante's influence on cinema from a number of unique perspectives and will consider directors as diverse as Adolfo Padovan, Domenico Gaido, Guido Brignone, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and David Lynch. A highlight of the concluding day of the conference will be Canadian filmmaker Bruce Elder who will discuss Dante's influence on him and who will introduce sections from his monumental 42 hour film cycle The Book of all the Dead.
The film festival will be held at Cinematheque Ontario and will run from March 30 until April 7. Many of the films discussed in the conference will be screened during this period. In addition, the festival will include such rarely screened gems as Vitagraph's 1908 The Two Brothers, Milano Films' colossus of 1911, L'Inferno, David Wark Griffith's Drums of Love, Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone and Stan Brakhage's The Dante Quartet.
The conference and film festival will be of interest not only to film and literary scholars and students but also to anybody whose enjoyment is film, Dante, or both. The conference and festival are open to the general public. The conference is free of charge. There is a modest admission fee for each film of the festival. Details on both the conference and festival are contained on the pages which follow.
The University of Toronto Humanities Centre is a research institute committed to the study and the promotion of the humanities. The Humanities Centre's mandate is to create an environment that fosters collaboration, creative thinking and the development of new ideas in the humanities. In addition, the Centre seeks to establish a dialogue between the academic community and the wider community of which it is a part. The Conference and Film Festival thus afford an excellent opportunity to fulfill the Centre's mandate and to foster a dynamic and inter-disciplinary approach to a topic of great interest to the scholarly and general communities.
DANTE AND CINEMA
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Session I: University College, Room 179
Friday, March 30, 2001 2:00 p. m. &Mac246; 4:30 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Amilcare Iannucci, Director of the University of Toronto Humanities Centre
Dante's Inferno and Paradiso in Silent Italian Cinema
Speakers and Title of Presentation:
Aldo Bernardini (Film Historian)
Dante e il cinema muto italiano: L'Inferno (English Translation To Be Provided)
(Dante and Italian Silent Cinema: The Inferno)
John Welle (University of Notre Dame)
Tales of Early Cinema: Dante in an Italian Film Journal Lux, 1909-1911
Vittoria Colonnese Benni (University of Toronto)
The Helios-Psiche Paradiso
Respondent and Affiliation:
Carlo Coen (Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto)
Session II: University College, Room 179
Saturday, March 31, 2001 8:30 a.m. &Mac246; 10:30 a.m.
Recurring Dantean Cinematic Ideas: Politics, Sex, Gender and Race
Speakers and Title of Presentation:
Gianfranco Casadio (Department of Film, Provincia of Ravenna)
Visioni infernali nel Maciste all'Inferno di Brignone (English Translation To Be Provided)
(Hellish Visions in Brignone's Maciste in Hell)
Dennis Looney (University of Pittsburgh)
Spencer Williams and Dante: An African-American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell
Marguerite Waller (University of California, Riverside)
The Metamorphosis of the Image: Dante's Paradiso and the Cinema of Maurizio Nichetti
Respondent and Affiliation:
Andrea Picard (Cinematheque Ontario)
Session III: University College, Room 179
Saturday, March 31, 2001 11 a.m. &Mac246; 1 p.m.
Dante and Contemporary Cinema: The Italian Masters
Speakers and Title of Presentation:
Guido Fink (Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles)
Fellini's 'Infernal Circles'
Patrick Rumble (University of Wisconsin)
Dopo tanto veder: Pasolini's Dante after the Disappearance of the Fireflies
Antonio Rossini (University of Toronto)
A Few Dantean Observations on La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini
Respondent and Affiliation:
Yuri Sangalli (University of Toronto)
Session IV: University College, Room 179
Saturday, March 31, 2001 2:30 &Mac246; 4:30 p.m.
Dante and Contemporary Cinema: The New Wave
Speakers and Title of Presentation:
Manuela Gieri (University of Toronto)
The 'Comic' Vision: Dante's Divine Comedy and Benigni's Life is Beautiful
Massimo Ciavolella Lovesickness, Dante's Francesca and David Lynch's (University of California, Los Angeles) Dorothy/Sandi
Bart Testa (University of Toronto)
Dante and Cinema: Film Across A Chasm
Respondent and Affiliation:
Teresa Russo (University of Toronto)
Session V
Sunday, April 1, 2001 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Dante and Canadian Cinema
Speaker and Title of Presentation:
John Tulk (University of Toronto)
Dante and Canadian Cinema
Bruce Elder (Ryerson Polytechnic University)
Dante and The Book of All the Dead
Respondent and Affiliation:
Elio Costa (York University)
Concluding Remarks by Amilcare A. Iannucci
For additional information on the conference:
Contact the University of Toronto Humanities Centre:
Tel: 416.978.7415
Fax: 416. 946-7434
Email: humanites.centre@utoronto.ca
URL: www.utoronto.ca/humanities-centre
CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO DANTE FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, March 30
6:30 L'INFERNO/IL PARADISO (Padovan,Bertolini,Liguoro/Pettine/Dante) - 101 minutes
8:45 IL DESERTO ROSSO (Antonioni/Dante) - 116 minutes
Saturday, March 31
6:30 MACISTE ALL' INFERNO (Brignone/Dante) - 108 minutes
8:45 LA STRADA (Fellini/Dante) - 107 minutes
Sunday, April 1
1:00 DANTE NELLA VITA E NEI TEMPO SUOI (Gaido/Dante) - 81 minutes
3:00 STROMBOLI (Rossellini/Dante) -105 minutes
Tuesday, April 3
8:15 THE TWO BROTHERS/FRANCESA DA RIMINI/DRUMS OF LOVE - 149 minutes (Ramous/Falena/Griffith/Dante)
Wednesday, April 4
8:45 DANTE'S INFERNO (Lachman/Dante) - 89 minutes
Thursday, April 5
8:45 ACCATTONE (Pasolini/Dante) - 120 minutes
Saturday, April 7
8:45 THE DANTE QUARTET/BLUE VELVET (Brakhage/Lynch/Dante) - 128 minutes
BOX OFFICE INFORMATION:
All screenings held at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas St. West), Toronto.
Members: $4.80; Non-Members: $8.00; Student Members/Seniors: $4.25.
All screenings restricted to individuals 18 years of age or older (unless otherwise noted).
For more information, consult Cinematheque Ontario's Spring 2001Programme
Guide, call (416) 968-FILM, or see the official website at
www.bell.ca/filmfest.
For additional information on the film festival, contact:
Andréa Picard
Cinematheque Ontario
Tel: 416.934.3208
Fax: 416.967.9477
Email: apicard@torfilmfest.ca
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