Trieste, James Joyce and the Cinema: A History of Possibile Worlds
15th January – 10th February 2009
Sala Umberto Veruda, Palazzo Costanzi
Piazza Piccola 2, Trieste
The exhibition can be visited everyday from 10am to 1pm and then from 5pm to 8pm
Sunday 18th January, 11am, Erik Schneider, curator of the exhibition, will be offering a guided tour of the exposition
The exhibition in the care of Erik Schneider, organized by the Association Alpe Adria Cinema in collaboration with City of Trieste, is the chance to reread the adventure of the enterprise of the Volta Cinema in Dublin from a new perspective: not as has happened up until now from the point of view of the Irish writer, but from a vision completely Triestine. The exhibition path takes two directions: on the one hand it proposes an ample view of the reality of cinema in Trieste – from its debut in 1896 up until the First World War – through the exposition of numerous unpublished documents which came from all the local archives, that illustrate how in the Adriatic city the cinema phenomenon has expanded and evolved. On the other hand it offers an accurate reconstruction of the events surrounding the Volta Cinema, always from the Triestine point of view, underlining the profiles of the three principle associates of James Joyce; the cinematographic entrepreneurs and pioneers Giovanni Rebez, Giuseppe Caris and Antonio Machnich, and highlights the economic, entreprenuerial and personal background to the event, also with previously unpublished documents and new elements.
The multimedia exhibition foresees at last a space dedicated to the ‘Animated Photographs’ of the period and visual documents of the life and works of Joyce.
On line the trailer for the section Walls of Sound_Sound(e)scapes of possibilities A voyage without destination, above the walls of politics, mentality, physical, economical – which cast a penetrating, ironic and sometimes provocative gaze on the way in which music is produced, used and lived outside the great media circus. The music will be seen like a soundscape, vital to the endurance and survival: an exploration of possible worlds, the leitmotif of the 20th edition of the Trieste Film Festival.
The mechanism of an economical machine or the cry of opposition to political regimes, expressing urgency or the experimentation of innovative languages, aesthetic rituals that heighten the social tensions or the creation of shared memories. ‘Walls of Sound’ wants to be the epitome of the way in which music still today has an energy that travels beyond our physical space, political and emotional mentalities. Eleven titles for as many forays into very different worlds: oi! music, provocative celebrations and capitalist commercial strategies in a Polish army-boot factory in the classic ‘The Boot Factory’ by the precentor of lives in the margins, Lech Kowalski; the gothic festival of Bolkow in Poland, a square with demonstrators shouting – and singing- in protest of the election of the Bielorussian President Lukashenko; the first and historical disco of the slovene punk band Pankrti; an unpublished portrait of the worldwide capital of metal, Wacken; hip hop in the DDR, the birth of Techno in Germany, rock from Sarajevo and lots more...
MASSIMO ZAMBONI AND FABIO BRESSAN FOR TFF 2009 Finally online is the trailer of Alpe Adria Cinema’s registered festival which will be celebrating its 20th edition from 15th to the 22nd next January.
A 30 second trailer introduces us to the visual world of the Trieste Film Festival to outline the new graphic design for 2009, deliberately amateurish and in part a ‘work in progress’, tracing the work from research and construction right up to a cinematographic festival.
‘For our 20th Birthday we wanted a special intro’ afferms Annamaria Percavassi, the Director of the Festival, ‘coincidentally a friend Massimo Zamboni, a well known name in the Italian music scene originally with the ‘CCCP’ ‘Fedeli alla Linea’ and then with the ‘CSI’, wanted to give us a gift of music specifically composed for the Trieste Film Festival! Music in the style of Zamboni:light and evocative able to fulfill the journey over the boundaries of the horizon disclosing the distant reality.’
As for the Emilia Romagnian musician; ‘I imagined in my music an out of season blossom – we are in January are we not? – note that they evoke our right to enchantment. Perhaps this is the secret of cinema, where a hundred connections, thousands of meteorites are written in the screen of the sky.’
The director of the trailer is Fabio Bressan a completely Triestine talent who previously directed the 2008/9 opening of the tv show Nonsolomoda.
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WORK IN PROGRESS: FESTIVAL TRAILER
We are still working on it but soon the festival trailer will be on line
TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL: EVERYONE ONLINE!
For a few days our festival has been launched onto YouTube, the well known video sharing site and on Facebook, the most entered site for social networking!
Alpe Adria Cinema has taken over the network with a channel completely dedicated to The Trieste Film Festival where it is possible to see trailers from past editions, interviews, video diaries.... With a simple registration to the Festival channel you can comment on the videos, put up your own short films inherent to the event. Even though it is a channel thought up by us it can only be constructed and developed with your fundamental help…
A In just a few days since it was set up the Trieste Film Festival group on Facebook has reached more than 300 members, more than any other festival in the region! A simple registration to Facebook will allow you to interact with us, express your opinions and give your advice on how to make the universal Alpe Adria Cinema personal to you. www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33868359894
TFF 2009: HERE WE ARE! The festival like a kaleidoscope, like a filter can offer us a new perspective of the real providing us with new paradigms and new visions as we journey through the films selected by Alpe Adria Cinema. The idea for this edition to establish a new graphic design, deliberately amateurish and in part a 'work in progress', tracing the work from research and construction right up to a cinematographic festival. A large, white T on a background of flowers, reminiscing the east, becomes the element that widens the spectators scope of what they are seeing and what is reality: neither a screen nor distortion but a way in which to view the world that surrounds us from a priviliged point of view. An unapproachable world, due to not only the kilometrical but also the universal cultural distance, becomes an everyday experience, with thanks to the Trieste Film Festival which will celebrate its 20th edition in January 2009.
TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL: EVERYONE ONLINE!
A In just a few days since it was set up the Trieste Film Festival group on Facebook has reached more than 300 members, more than any other festival in the region! A simple registration to Facebook will allow you to interact with us, express your opinions and give your advice on how to make the universal Alpe Adria Cinema personal to you.
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