FILMS BY MARIO BAVA
BLACK SUNDAY / BLACK SABBATH In conjunction with LA Opera’s presentation of Hercules Vs. Vampires, April 23 – 26 at the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the American Cinematheque will screen a pair of Mario Bava classics: BLACK SUNDAY and BLACK SABBATH. Whether it’s ancient strongmen, vampires or witches, the famed Italian horror director brings […]
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RENAISSANCE SPLENDORS OF THE NORTHERN ITALIAN COURTS
The Renaissance courts of northern Italy, among the wealthiest and most sophisticated in Europe, attracted innovative artists who created objects of remarkable beauty. Princes and other nobles offered painters and illuminators favorable contracts and social prestige in return for lavishly decorated panels and books. These works prominently displayed their owners’ scholarly learning, religious devotion, and […]
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THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS IN SUMMER
Pierfrancesco Diliberto (a renowned TV host and political comedian, better known as Pif) wrote, directed, and stars in this subversive, irreverent feature debut about Arturo, a young boy whose obsession with the Mafia’s casual presence in his city surpasses even his passion for Flora, the beautiful schoolmate who remains his main love interest until adulthood. […]
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PROSPECT NEW ORLEANS / LA IMPACT
Franklin Sirmans, Terri and Michael Smoke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Artistic Director for Prospect.3: Notes for Now (Prospect New Orleans’ 3rd international contemporary art biennial) in conversation with LA based artist Piero Golia about his recent participation in the Biennial.
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LEVANTE in Concerto
Born Claudia Lagona, Levante’s life is a trajectory between Italy’s two most fertile music scenes: Catania and Turin. Levante will make her US debut at SXSW, the world’s leading music industry event, taking place March 17 – 21, 2015 in Austin, TX. Showcase dates follow on Monday March 23 in Los Angeles at Genghis Cohen, […]
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REALITY WITHIN REALITY: PETER SHIRE
Exhibit that highlights the collaboration of the LA BAsed eclectic artist with Memphis, the influential design and architecture collective founded in Milan in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass.More about Peter Shire’s work at www.echoparkpottery.com and http://petershirestudio.com/memphis Curated by Alessandro Pedrazzi
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DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT (2014)
A drag queen’s journey Persecuted by his father for being different, androgynous boy Davide, 14, leaves home to live on the streets of Catania.Presented at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, this movie is a Bildungsroman that tells the true story of Davide Cordova, known as ‘Fuxia’, the drag queen of the famous Muccassasina […]
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CATIA’S CHOICE – 80 SEA MILES SOUTH OF LAMPEDUSA (2014)
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, screening of Catia’s Choice – 80 Sea Miles South of Lampdusa (90’, 2014) the Web series/docufiction by Roberto Burchielli on Catia Pellegrino, Italy’s first female naval commander who came to the rescue of drowning migrants off the island of Lampedusa in 2013. Catia Pellegrino and/or the director […]
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IMAGERY AND IDENTITY: THE MONUMENTAL VASES OF ANCIENT APULIA
Richly decorated with complex imagery and narrative scenes, large figure-decorated vases of the 4th century B.C. found in Apulia (southeastern Italy) served as proud statements of identity. Archaeologist Tom Carpenter examines these vases and the funerary assemblages in which they were found to shed light on the otherwise little-known Apulian people.More at http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/lectures/imagery_and_identity.htmlThis program complements […]
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WOMEN WRITE THE MEDITERRANEAN
In memory of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) This transnational symposium will address, with a comparative approach, the relationship between women writers and the Mediterranean, considered as a diverse region of interconnected histories and identities. A particular focus will be dedicated to the Italian novelist Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998). With its unprecedented tensions and oscillations between […]
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