[ecrea] IX Film Summer School - Cinema and the world's fragile boundaries

>IX Film Summer School - Cinema and the world's fragile boundaries
>
>Locarno, 4.-8. August, 2008
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>www.fss.unisi.ch
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>The Faculty of Communication Sciences of the 
>Università della Svizzera italiana and the 
>Locarno International Film Festival organise a 
>Summer School to analyse fiction and non-fiction 
>media. The Summer School is part of Réseau 
>Cinéma CH, a Swiss university consortium 
>promoting two Master of Arts programs in Film Studies and Film.
>
>The IX Film Summer School will attempt to 
>intercept the hot points of a topical 
>debate:  what representation does the cinema 
>give of borders? And how does it contribute to 
>overcoming them? Since its first years, cinema 
>has appeared as a phenomenon capable of 
>overcoming geographic and cultural identities 
>and of involving a global population. It seemed 
>to strengthen the dream of universal language 
>and thus be able to offer one art for everyone. 
>At the same time, however, the critics of the 
>first 10 years of the XX century also began to 
>describe the various cinematographies on the 
>basis of national characters: the American, 
>French, Italian, Scandinavian and German cinemas 
>were defined on the basis of true and presumed 
>"constitutional conceptions" of the various 
>cultures such as the opening to modernity, the 
>ability to bring back tradition, a certain 
>impudence, etc. In this way, from its earliest 
>years, cinema has been linked with 
>contradiction: on one side it eliminated 
>differences, yet on the other it replicated 
>them. This double destiny has often repeated 
>itself in the history of cinema. Many times 
>films have offered opportunities for comparison 
>and as many others they have functioned as marks of identification.
>
>Today, in a world characterised both by a rapid 
>globalisation which threatens to eliminate all 
>cultural specificity, and by the rebounding of 
>ethnic conflicts which underline how difficult 
>it is to overcome identities, this double 
>destiny of the cinema can constitute a good 
>occasion for reflection. The Summer School, 
>organised by the Università della Svizzera 
>italiana together with the Festival of Locarno, 
>will dedicate a week to this topic.
>
>With the contribution of acclaimed filmmakers 
>Amos Gitaï (director, Israel - Leopard of Honour 
>at the 61. Locarno International Film Festival) 
>and Corso Salani (director, Italy - Ciné Cinéma 
>Special Jury Prize / Filmmakers of the Present 
>Competition at the 60. Locarno International 
>Film Festival), and renowned scholars Vinzenz 
>Hediger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Massimo 
>Locatelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 
>Milan), Carmelo Marabello (Università Bocconi, 
>Milan) and Margrit Tröhler (Universität Zürich), 
>the 2008 Summer School will be trying to tap 
>into the hot spots of an extremely topical 
>debate, in which the relationship between cinema 
>and the representation of boundaries, and the 
>implications for the production, creative and 
>consumption processes traces out a broad and multi-faceted work map.
>
>The Summer School - whose scientific committee 
>is composed of Francesco Casetti (University of 
>Lugano and Catholic University of Milan), Maria 
>Cristina Lasagni (University of Lugano), 
>Frédéric Maire (Locarno International Film 
>Festival), Giuseppe Richeri (University of 
>Lugano) and Margrit Tröhler (University of 
>Zurich) - is open to 30 university students from 
>Switzerland and abroad, and offers them the 
>opportunity to explore the techniques of 
>analysis and the processes of creation and 
>production of the documentary film through the following teaching activities:
>
>* Lectures *
>A series of four seminars - coordinated by 
>Professor Francesco Casetti - will tackle the 
>subject of the representation of boundaries in 
>terms of the industry, authors and genres. Guest 
>teachers will include scholars Vinzenz Hediger 
>(Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Massimo Locatelli 
>(Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), 
>Carmelo Marabello (Università Bocconi, Milan) 
>and Margrit Tröhler (Universität Zürich).
>
>* Workshops *
>The four modules - coordinated by Dr. Nevina 
>Satta - will consist of two workshops conducted 
>by renowned filmmakers Amos Gitaï (director, 
>Israel) and Corso Salani (director, Italy). 
>Using analytical methods, the authors will 
>present their own creative-production processes 
>and the typical features of their relevant 
>market. Laboratory work includes the viewing and 
>the discussion of one or more films, each 
>author's presentation of his conception and 
>production cycle in its main stages, to conclude 
>with a group discussion with the film director.
>
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> > > > Applications are to be submitted by Friday, 4. July, 2008 < < <
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>
>The Film Summer School full program may be found 
>at the website www.fss.unisi.ch.

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