The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, in collaboration with McGill University, the Université de Montréal, the Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, is pleased to present the series of meetings and conferences by the Italian director Alina Marazzi.
Tuesday, November 27 – 5:30pm to 7:30 pm
McGill University, Bronfman Building 422
1001 Sherbrook Street West – Conference , in english, by Alina Marazzi: “Multimedial Transmigrations: Haye: Le parole, la notte (2017)” Introduction and presentation by professors G. Minghelli and E. Bolongaro
Wednesday, November 28, at 6pm
University of Montreal
Department of Litterature and World languages
Lionel-Groulx Pavilion, Room C-1017-02
3150, Jean-Brillant Street
Projection “Volevamo anche le rose” (84 min. v.o. st. english)
Presentation and comments by E. Castel and G. Princigalli
Thursday, November 29 – 2pm to 4pm
University of Quebec at Montreal
Faculty of communication
Judith-Jasmin Pavilion, Room J-3855
1495, St-Denis Street
« Leçon de cinéma avec Alina Marazzi : mémoire personnelle, mémoire collective ». Presentation and debate by G. Princigalli
Friday, November 30 – 5pm to 7pm
Concordia University
FB 630.15, Concordia University
1250 Guy Street,
Master Class with Alina Marazzi
“Technologies of En-gendered Memory: Alina Marazzi’s First-Person Cinema”
Presentation by Rosanna Maule, Film Studies, Concordia University
Alina Marazzi, is a famous director of documentaries, fiction and theater. Her works are mainly based on femininity, motherhood and memory: Un’ora sola ti vorrei (For one more hour with you, 2002) is the first film based on her personal experience. It is made up of a collage of her family films that tell of when her mother was alive. Per Sempre (2005) is a documentary about seclusion nuns. Vogliamo anche le rose (2007) is a documentary (from the features of a feature film) that tells the lives and experiences of Italian women during the sexual revolution of the ’70s. To achieve it were used the archival footage and diaries of those women who have experienced the revolution on their skin. Tutto parla di te (2013), starring Charlotte Rampling, addresses the issue of local maternity mixed feelings. It is an interweaving of documentary footage, amateur movies and stop-motion animations. In the theatrical field Alina Marazzi was responsible of the multi-screen images of Il Sogno di una Cosa (2014), a musical work by Mauro Montalbetti. Confini (2014) is a short film based on archive footage dating back to the First World War, accompanied by the voice of the poet Mariangela Gualtieri who reads her poems. In addition, Alina Marazzi directed an episode as part of the collective project Super8 14reels. Her latest film is Anna Piaggi, una visionaria della moda (2016), a documentary portrait of Italian fashion journalist Anna Piaggi, an international fashion icon. In 2017 she directed Haye, le parole la notte, a contemporary multimedia musical work curated by Mauro Montalbetti, whose premiere took place at the Ariosto Theater in Reggio Emilia in September 2017.