HERSTORIES. The Stories, feminine plural. Thank you girls!

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HERSTORIES it is going to end! We hoped to trace a path through women’s collective narratives, to make a wide-ranging story of women’s lives, where the history of each one of us is also that of all the others.
Making them actresses in their own stories.
The Storytelling, telling each other, can improve our existence with the knowledge, the feeling of being part of an active collective. Talking about the past and the present to imagine together a better future, more equal, supportive.
The project, planned originally during the spring of 2020, has been suspended and postponed because of the restrictions following the Covid-19 emergency and now it is virtual&real.
We invited you to tell your stories. Waiting together for the next Edition.

MAGNIFICENT AND PROGRESSIVE FATE. Q&A after the screening with Renato Curcio

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Magnificent and progressive fate is a documentary movie having as its main characters Renato Curcio and the ‘Ergastolo di Santo Stefano’, a panoptic structure located in the namesake island of the Pontine archipelago, indeed just little more than a rock in the sea.

The Panopticon, a term coined by the English jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham, is a word made up of pan- that in Greek means “all” and optikon that means “to see”, refers to the “capacity to see all” at a glance, i.e. a physical and social architecture of an invisible power.

St. Stephen Prison is the first facility in the world, in which this idea was implemented (1795), hence the physical setting of the documentary and it represents, along with the island itself, the metaphor, from which the analysis made by the main character, Renato Curcio, of the so called Digital Revolution unravels. The storytelling about the magnificence of the effects the new technologies may have on us is pervasive: Technology makes us smarter or even makes us long for a new type of technologic superman. Least popular is instead the critical thinking about the impact that all this actually has on the human nature itself as we have understood it until now.

I AM IN LOVE WITH PIPPA BACCA

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Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. She crossed 11 countries involved in wars, hitchhiking with another Milanese artist, Silvia Moro, both wearing a wedding dress. This was a performance for peace, trust and hoping to prove that if you rely on others, you’ll receive good things only. After travelling many roads, the two artists decided to split for a while in Istanbul, planning to meet again in Byblos. Pippa left then, alone, and nobody heard from her again.

PALM SPRINGS – Oscar e Golden Globe Selection 2021

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While stuck at a wedding in Palm Springs, Nyles meets Sarah, the maid of honor and family black sheep. After he rescues her from a disastrous toast, Sarah becomes drawn to Nyles and his offbeat nihilism. But when their impromptu tryst is thwarted by a surreal interruption, Sarah must join Nyles in embracing the idea that nothing really matters, and they begin wreaking spirited havoc on the wedding celebration. “It’s tough for a film to be heady and hilarious, but Palm Springs does it beautifully.” David Sims – The Atlantic

I AM IN LOVE WITH PIPPA BACCA

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Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. She crossed 11 countries involved in wars, hitchhiking with another Milanese artist, Silvia Moro, both wearing a wedding dress. This was a performance for peace, trust and hoping to prove that if you rely on others, you’ll receive good things only. After travelling many roads, the two artists decided to split for a while in Istanbul, planning to meet again in Byblos. Pippa left then, alone, and nobody heard from her again.

“AZIONE È USCIRE DALLA SOLITUDINE” portrait of one of the most influential Italian left-wing intellectuals

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“In reality, almost nothing of the things I care about remained standing.” Luigi Pintor, one of the most important Italian left-wing intellectuals, tells himself and thinks aloud, with the filter of a very particular sensitivity, on the facts, experiences, ideas, emotions that have marked Italian history from the war to the present day. But also on the gloomy prospects that loom over our future and the few hopes that oppose it. A long video interview, the only one in existence, in which the thread of reflection and memory unfolds following a series of key words that underlie the plot of Pintor’s thought: the search for a critical conscience which, distrusting systematic thinking, is constantly feels tested.

Werner Herzog’s NOMAD: In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

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Werner Herzog Pays Tribute to a ‘Kindred Spirit’, honoring the writer and explorer Bruce Chatwin in a stimulating and visually overwhelming documentary. Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with Bruce Chatwin, whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.

I AM IN LOVE WITH PIPPA BACCA

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Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. She crossed 11 countries involved in wars, hitchhiking with another Milanese artist, Silvia Moro, both wearing a wedding dress. This was a performance for peace, trust and hoping to prove that if you rely on others, you’ll receive good things only. After travelling many roads, the two artists decided to split for a while in Istanbul, planning to meet again in Byblos. Pippa left then, alone, and nobody heard from her again.