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"Restoring Verdi´s places"
From Roncole to Sant´Agata via Busseto
To mark the first centenary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi, the Emilia-Romagna Region, toghether with AICER and IBC, promoted the realization of this video for the exhibition Restoring Verdi’s places - from Roncole to Sant’Agata via Busseto.
The video aims at giving back the surroundings and the panoramas experienced and loved by Verdi, using a series of virtual reconstructions, digitally drawn from original documents.
The video runs along the main stages of an ideal Verdi route: the birthplace at Roncole, Busseto, where Verdi spent his childhood and adolescence, the countryside and the surroundings, Villa Verdi at Sant’Agata and its garden, bought in 1848, when, well-known and rich, he decided to come back to his home land.
From these privileged points of view, stories of the Maestro and events and vicissitudes of the surroundings are told with the live comment of professor Pier Luigi Cervellati, curator of the restauration of Roncole and Sant’Agata and planner of the mentioned exhibition.
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A dictionary of images
A dictionary of images is not just a set sequence showing those places which define the meaning of Emilia-Romagna. It is, rather, one possible way of looking at the multi-layered social and cultural complexity which throughout the centuries has transformed what was once only a geographical entity into a land where man has left his mark: a theatre of thoughts, deeds, emotions.
To give a sensible shape to this region is like trying to reduce to a pat definition the depth of human experience which makes up our birthright - the land the people live in and to which they bear witness.
The dictionary is thus a way of scrolling trough various pan-shots of the region, whereby the observing eye becomes increasingly more subjective and intimate. Both our geographical and historical vision of the region is coloured by the presence of the human beings who have left their mark in space and time. It is by following characters captured by the camera that we shall discover a land and the life of those who live there
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The best of the Vapensiero Day 2001
The best of the Vapensiero Day 2001 contains what was produced and made available online during the Verdi Celebrations in the year 2001. An Internet event organised with the collaboration of Italian government offices and associations world-wide. It commemorates the 9th March 1842, the date of the first performance of the opera Nabucodonosor with the world famous chorus, Va’ Pensiero. Two editions were produced: in 2001 and in 2002
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The invention of Emilia-Romagna: Frédéric Rossif film rehearsals selected and commented by Renzo Renzi
Does Emilia-Romagna possess any original characteristics that set it apart from other parts of the world? And if so, what are they?
A cultural and historical journey through the region’s traditions: Emilia-Romagna seen through the eyes of a film director, Frédéric Rossif
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“Shooting a film means living” by Enrica Antonioni
“Shooting a film means living” is a video-documentary filmed by Enrica Antonioni and dedicated to the work of Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of the film “Beyond the clouds (Al di là delle nuvole)”. Emilia-Romagna regional council acquired the rights to the video in its shorter version (26 minutes) which lingers on the places, landscapes and faces of the Ferrara episode and on the artistic and intellectual exchange that developed between Antonioni and Wenders.
