On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Pirandello and the Workshop of performing advanced recitals and interpretation, which will be held in our premises from June 5th to June 21st, The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal will present a screening of the documentary film “Tonight We Play A Soggetto” by Roberto Zorfini.
Monday June 12, 3pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
1200, Dr. Penfield
Free admission
Trailer
‘Tonight We Play A Soggetto”(2014) documents the creative vision of an italian theatre director working with a group of canadians drama’s students. The film-documentary explores the permeable boundary that separates life from fiction, actor from character. It’s a meta-theatrical experience that challenges conventions by questioning the external existence of a work of art and debating whether the piece lives independently of its author once brought forth into the world. It’s a celebration of Theatre seen by Cinema’s peculiarities, a “not chronological portrait” of the daemon that leads the interpreters through the hard work of creation.
Roberto Zorfini is an Italian filmmaker, based in Montréal since 2010. He graduated in 1995 from the Istituto per la Cinematografia e Televisione Roberto Rossellini in Rome. Thanks to his very good sense of initiative, his dinamism and his efficiency, he gathered more than 20 years of experience in video projects and he worked for about 10 years in the Italian Broadcast Television RAI.
In 2013 his short movie “Imperfetto Equilibrio” won a Special Nomination at Italian Contemporary Film Festival (TIFF – Toronto). In Canada he realized video commercials for different kinds of companies and he worked as Creative Director for Panoramitalia. After being author for RAI World, he won the following awards in 2014 at the 48 Hour Film Project in Ottawa with the short-movie “Alice”: Best Directing, Best Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Musical Score, Best Sound Design, Best Special Effects, Best Use of Genre, Best Use of Character, Best Use of Prop and Best Use of Line of dialogue.
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