book presentation > Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Dr. Diana Garvin will present her recently published book, Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work (University of Toronto, 2021) in which she explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labor. The book includes illustrations of rare […]
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special event > Italian Research Day 2022
Highlighting the contribution of Italian researchers to international scientific efforts and promoting the dissemination of the results of their research is the goal of the Italian Research Day established by the Ministry of Education, University and Research in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health. Program details to be announced […]
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film festival > WorldFest Houston 2022
The Italian selection at this year’s WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, the third longest running and oldest independent film and video festival in the world, include the documentarythe historical drama Due donne al di là della legge (Italy, 2021 90′) directed by Raffaele Schettino, the story of a family in a past time, but with a […]
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Spring 2022 Italian Language Classes | Online & In-person classes
Spring Quarter dates: April 18 – June 26, 2022 For further information and to register please call or text Ina Cohen at 310 741 9669
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presentation > Italy at the Oscars
The Los Angeles, Italia” Film Festival comes back to LA to highlight Italy’s longstanding cinematic, lifestyle and artistic legacy and to introduce current Italian productions to the United States. On March 25, join us for an evening in honor of legendary cinematographer Dante Spinotti and 2022 Italian Oscar nominees Massimo Cantini Parrini (Best Costume Design for Cyrano), […]
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special event > Italian Design Day 2022
Italian Design Day is an annual celebration of Italian Design launched in 2017 by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in collaboration and with the support of the Ministry of Culture. This year’s theme is Re-Generation. Design and new technologies for a sustainable future. A new ecology of beauty. Italian design seeding a […]
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book presentation > Meet the Author: Claudia Durastanti
On the occasion of Women’s History Month and celebrating the release in the United States of her acclaimed novel Strangers I Know (La straniera), writer and translator Claudia Durastanti will be in conversation with Professor Clorinda Donato, Director of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies at California State University, […]
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film festival > Los Angeles, Italia 2022
The 17th annual Los Angeles Italia Film Festival will premiere the short The Last Supper: the Living Tableau a recreation of Leonardo’s masterpiece, by director Armondo Linus Acosta with Oscar winners cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, production designer Dante Ferretti and set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo, working together for the first time. The Festival will honor director Sergio […]
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retrospective > Carnal Knowledge: The films of Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Academy Museum honors the centennial of poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini with a complete retrospective of his narrative films interspersed with some unique short and documentary works from his prolific career. Though he was a filmmaker for just over a decade, Pasolini’s impact on cinema is profound. An openly gay man and […]
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retrospettiva > Rare Takes: le opere di Cecilia Magini
Rare is perhaps the best word to describe the works of Italian filmmaker Cecilia Mangini. Rare in that despite her distinctive body of work, her collaborations with Pier Paolo Pasolini, and that she was the first woman to make documentaries in post-war Italy, her films are hard to find. They weren’t widely available online until […]
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