KOLKATA: Italian Wave – a selection of video-art curated by FRANCESCA FINI
Francesca Fini is an interdisciplinary artist mainly focused on new media, experimental cinema and performance art. She lives and works in Rome. The focus of her work is always the body and its own narrative power, but inserted in a sort of exuberant “multimedia pot” where live videoart pieces are mixed with generative audio, lo-fi […]
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DELHI: PIANO RECITAL – Gabriele Carcano
Gabriele Carcano, Born in Turin in 1985, began to study the piano at the age of seven and graduated from the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi in Turin at the age of seventeen with the highest grades and honors. He continued his studies with Andrea Lucchesini at the Accademia di Musica in Pinerolo and with Aldo Ciccolini in Paris, […]
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CHENNAI: ITALIAN FILM SCREENING @ European Union Film Festival: L’INTREPIDO
L’INTREPIDO Director: Gianni AmelioGenre: Comedy / DramaDuration: 104 minsYear of production: 2013Cast: Antonio Albanese, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata, Sandra Ceccarelli Set in modern day Milan, INTREPIDO: A LONELY HERO is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labour – as seen through the […]
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FILM: Fasten Your Seatbelts – Comedy; Drama | 2014
Cinema at the Institute: Contemporary Italian FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS Director: Ferzan Ozpetek Year: 2014 | Duration: 110 min Cast: Kasia Smutniak, Francesco Arka, Filippo Scicchitano In Italian with subtitles in English Elena and Antonio seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the […]
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TALK: ART – Michelangelo nella citta di Borgias
Speaker: Prof. Eugenio Lo Sardo, Director of the Italian National Archives and Professor of Museology at the Roman University “La Sapienza”. Author of numerous books and curator of international exhibitions, he has lectured at various colleges and universities around the world, especially on the history of Italian art and archeology. His most recent publication is […]
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TALK: ART – Caravaggio in Rome: The first years
Speaker: Prof. Eugenio Lo Sardo, Director of the Italian National Archives and Professor of Museology at the Roman University “La Sapienza”. Author of numerous books and curator of international exhibitions, he has lectured at various colleges and universities around the world, especially on the history of Italian art and archeology. His most recent publication is […]
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Ever Closer Union – The Legacy of the Treaties of Rome for Today’s Europe
“Ever Closer Union – increasingly united Europe” is a traveling exhibition, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. It is an inter-institutional collaboration of which the conception and contents are owed to the European University Institute; the translation of texts to the European Parliament; the management of the website and the catalog […]
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FILM: The Unknown Woman – Drama; Thriller | 2006
Cinema at the Institute: Contemporary Italian THE UNKNOWN WOMAN Director: Giuseppe Tornatore Year: 2006 | Duration: 118 min Cast: Ksenia Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini In Italian with subtitles in English Irena, a Ukrainian woman who has just arrived in a city in Italy does the cleaning in a building and glazing of the stairs, but […]
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DELHI: The DUO – Simone Gramaglia (Viola) | Luigi Attademo (Guitar)
Simone Gramaglia Viola – Luigi Attademo Guitar The Duo: Founded in 2012 from the two artists’ idea to unite the unique and fascinating sonorities of the viola and the guitar in an ensemble that could ennoble them both not only through the peculiarities of their timbre but also from the point of view of chamber […]
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FILM: Every Blessed Day – Romance; Comedy | 2012
Cinema at the Insitute: Contemporary Italian EVERY BLESSED DAY Director: Paolo Virzì Year: 2012 | Duration: 102 min Cast: Luca Marinelli, Thony, Micol Azzurro, Claudio Pallitto In Italian with subtitles in English Guido and Antonia are a young couple: he is Tuscan and she is from Sicily. They meet during a concert by Antonia in […]
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