Theater, performance, experimental cinema, and documentary film are the artistic contexts analyzed by Marco Bertozzi and Daniela Sacco in this book Immaginari incarnati. Appropriazioni culturali, cinema, arti dal vivo (Quodlibet, 2024). Crossing the boundaries between the Old and New Worlds, the authors’ intersecting perspectives focus on a variety of eloquent examples: political bodies, figures from reality, archival memories, embodied on stage or reflected on screen, deciphering imaginaries undergoing profound transformation. Quebec, as a privileged laboratory from which to observe the encounter/clash between cultures, and Italy, as a Mediterranean port, are the geopolitical contexts from which to develop an ethical and aesthetic awareness of the artistic upheavals currently underway.
“The decision to compare Italian case studies with those from Quebec is implicit in our positioning, in our desire to share life and research experiences from both sides of the Atlantic. Because comparing the two worlds is not automatic and cannot be done abstractly, as it requires immersive life experiences in distant and sometimes irreconcilable environments that evoke different feelings, attitudes, and affections. In the comparison between the performing arts and documentary cinema, recurring elements stand out: one of these is the fundamental value of creatively shaping memory in order to reinterpret history.
Tuesday November 18, 2025 – 6pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura 1200 Dr. Penfield, Montréal
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Moderator: Viva Paci
Marco Bertozzi teaches Documentary and Experimental Cinema at the IUAV University of Venice. He is a film exhibition curator and documentary filmmaker, with films such as Appunti romani (2004), Il senso degli altri (2007), Predappio in luce (2008), Cinema grattacielo (2017) – he has been a visiting professor at the École des Médias of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and has taught at various universities and film schools in Italy and abroad. His books published by Marsilio include: Storia del documentario italiano (History of Italian Documentary Film) (2008), Recycled cinema. Immagini perdute, visioni ritrovate (Recycled Cinema: Lost Images, Rediscovered Visions) (2012), Documentario come arte (Documentary as Art) (2018), L’Italia di Fellini. Immagini, paesaggi, forme di vita (Fellini’s Italy: Images, Landscapes, Ways of Life) (2021). He was part of the team that designed the Fellini Museum, inaugurated in Rimini in 2021, and for Rai Storia he hosted Cortoreale, a program on Italian documentaries that has been broadcast since 2013. Since 2023, he has co-directed the Unarchive International Festival in Rome, dedicated to the creative reuse of archival images. In 2022, he received the Italian Minister of Culture’s Award for Art Criticism and is currently a visiting professor at the Beniamino Segre Interdisciplinary Center of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.
Daniela Sacco teaches Performing Arts at the IUAV University of Venice. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Milan and UQÀM, Université du Québec à Montréal, where she taught at the École supérieure de théâtre (2018-2019 and 2021-2022). She has conducted research for various projects and her interests, intertwining philosophical and theatrical studies, include the theme of tragedy and myth, the thought of Aby Warburg, morphological aesthetics, performance studies, and decolonial studies. She has been a dramaturg for various companies, theaters, and cultural institutions, including the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and the Napoli Teatro Festival. Her publications include: Pensiero in azione. Bertolt Brecht, Robert Wilson, Peter Sellars: tre protagonisti del teatro contemporaneo (Thought in Action: Bertolt Brecht, Robert Wilson, Peter Sellars: Three Protagonists of Contemporary Theater) (2012); Mito e teatro: il principio drammaturgico del montaggio (Myth and Theater: The Dramaturgical Principle of Montage) (2013); Goethe in Italia, formazione estetica e teoria morfologica (Goethe in Italy, Aesthetic Formation and Morphological Theory) (2016); Tragico contemporaneo: forme della tragedia e del mito nel teatro italiano (Contemporary Tragedy: Forms of Tragedy and Myth in Italian Theater) [1995-2015] (2018).
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