As part of the collaborative project between the École de musique at the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) and the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (LABA), Beyond the Big Screen will be presented in Canada for the first time. The project is the result of a collaboration between the two institutions.
This initiative marks an important step toward establishing a lasting academic and artistic partnership between Québec and Italy.
Wednesday, October 14 | 4:30 pm–7:30 pm
Plateau 1, École de musique – Université de Sherbrooke
2500 Voie 9, Sherbrooke, QC J1K
The afternoon will begin with an introduction to the project by Isabelle Lacroix, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Université de Sherbrooke, and Andrea Gozzi, professor at the École de musique.
The program will continue with screenings of three short films resulting from this international collaboration (Tenerezza, Il tempo del mare, and What Lasts), followed by a discussion between the directors Maria Chiara Aguti, Alessandro Arese Visconti, and Sarah Ottaiano (LABA, Florence) and the composers Maxym Côté, Maxime Lantagne, Alexandre Roche, and Marianne St-Pierre (École de musique, Université de Sherbrooke).
The same program will take place the following day, Thursday, October 15, at the Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal, with an introduction by journalist Vittoria Zorfini of CFMB.