Seminars and texts

01, XI 2017 with Adolfo Mignemi, «About Ugo Ferrandi: The Ultimate Vanishing Act» in Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in the Italian Media. Edited by Paolo Bertella Farnetti and Cecilia Dau Novelli, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, 2017

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10, XII, 2014 IMMAGINI, PAROLE, VITE…PRIMI APPUNTI, Cinema and books, through the constellation of Chris Marker, Francois Maspero, Gilles Deleuze and others…, for a presentation at Scaldasolebooks, Milan (IT)

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26, XI, 2012 – 28, XI, 2012 at the HKB Fellerstrasse 11  3027 Bern (CH), University of the Arts and Kunsthalle Cinema in Bern: «Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?», presentation and elaboration of a seminar, together with Raphael Cuomo and Maria Iorio entitled «En sortant du cinéma» for the annual Master-Symposium Platform CH 2012. Inspiration for and experimental use of the Kunsthalle Cinema in Bern.

4, IX, 2012 «To watch a film, to comment a film«, commentary on the film How Yukong mouved the mountains, by J. Ivens-M. Loridan in the context of the conference «Can Yu Gong Move The Mountain?: Maoism in the 21st Century», Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)

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5, VI/ 13, VI/ 7, VII, 2012, Informal presentation: Al-rumûl: forms-of-life and dwelling, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL) and Maga, Gallarate (IT)

6, XII, 2011, Screening and critical introduction to Chris Marker’s film The owl’s Legacy, part of Aesthetics and Politics program, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL

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12, X, 2011, Screening and critical introduction to Ladoni, by Artur Aristakisyan, part of the program Aesthetics and Politics (JVE), Cinéma Lumière, Maastricht, NL

poster of the events by Vasilis Marmatakis

8/9, VII, 2011 and re-elaborated later in 2014 for a radio transmission and later on for other public seminars, Gaits and gestures

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9, III, 2011 Critical introduction to the screening of Notes for an African Orestes (1970) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL

2/3/6, III, 2011 Leaps in time. Leaps in space. Mediterranean revol-vings, with Lucia Pradella, critical introductions for a cicle of screenings and discussion, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL

poster of the events by Emilio Macchia

7, VII, 2009 With Chantal Marazia participation with «In corpore vili«. Worthless Bodies and Biopower at the Annual Conference Taking the Body Seriously, Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, UK

25, XI, 2008 Seminar for the program Italy-Lebanon. Peace path’s through cinema. UNDP Art Gold, GAI, Venice, IT

2005, «I love my camera» by Mariagiovanna Nuzzi and Paolo Pennuti, text accompanying the homonymous video [see portfolio]

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2004, «Immagini nella morte» [Images in death] by Antonio Cataldo, Mariagiovanna Nuzzi, Paolo Pennuti

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