Events in Bibliomediateca
- Friday – 14 May 2010, at 8.30 p.m.
A conference entitled INDIA, INDIA for the DIALOGHI IN CORSO festival, featuring a presentation of Alessandro Monti, Irma Piovano and Aelfric Bianchi’s book Chalta Hai: Così va il mondo. Bollywood specchio dell’India (Chalta Hai-C’est la vie: Bollywood, a mirror of India) and a screening of Franz Osten’s film Prapancha pash.
A new conference completely dedicated to India – the guest country at this year’s 23rd International Book Fair, as part of the DIALOGHI IN CORSO Presentation of new books, DVDs and readings festival. The conference will begin with a presentation of the book Chalta Hai: Così va il mondo. Bollywood specchio dell’India conducted by its authors Alessandro Monti, Irma Piovano, Aelfric Bianchi, CESMEO – The International Institute for Advanced Asian Studies and the DOST Archives of the Oriental Department of the University of Turin, 2010.
Afterwards there will be readings from Chita Divakaruni’s novel The Palace of Illusions, read by students of Turin’s Teatro Stabile theatre.
- Monday – 17 May 2010, at 3.30 p.m.
A screening of Roger Corman’s film X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes as part of the COLPI DI GENIO. Scienziati e incontri nel cinema (MOMENTS OF GENIUS: Scientists and conferences in the cinema) festival.
The latest event in the film festival COLPI DI GENIO (MOMENTS OF GENIUS: Scientists and conferences in the cinema) will take place in the Bibliomediateca on Monday, the 17th of May 2010. The afternoon will feature a screening of Roger Corman’s film X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes. Closely related to the director’s well-loved Gothic themes, Corman created an extremely low-budget science-fiction film that contains all the genre’s most tried-and-tested narrative elements: a mad scientist, a dangerous experiment, redemption and death. In addition to the normal narrative structure, there is the theme of eyesight, the very instrument of cinema, which right from the beginning seems to underpin the original text, and where the eye watching the spectator – the eye of God that the doctor himself alludes to at the end – once more places Man in a more human and earthly position. Introduced by Hamilton Santià.
- Thursday – 20 May 2010, at 8.30 p.m.
Remembering MARIO GROMO. A roundtable discussion on Mario Gromo with Ugo Gregoretti, Giovanni Gromo, Leonardo Mosso, Franco Prono and Lorenzo Ventavoli.
On this, the 50th anniversary of the death of Mario Gromo, the National Museum of Cinema, in partnership with the University of Turin’s DAMS college for the performing arts and with contributions from the National Archive of Industrial Cinema and the Experimental Cinematography Centre – National Film Archive, has organised a tribute to La Stampa’s legendary film critic with a day of screenings at Cinema Massimo (19 May 2010) and a roundtable discussion (20 May 2010) at the Bibliomediateca dedicated to Mario Gromo.
Ugo Gregoretti, Giovanni Gromo, Leonardo Mosso and Franco Prono will participate in the roundtable, which will be chaired by Lorenzo Ventavoli.
Afterwards, there will be a screening of Mario Gromo’s film I nuovi stabilimenti FIAT and Mario Camerini’s film T’amerò sempre (I Will Love You Always).