[Commlist] Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History | Michalsky Department Seminar Series: “The City Under Investigation”

|Dear all, I am pleased to share details of the upcoming film seminar 
series organised by the Michalsky Department at the Bibliotheca 
Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome.|


      |/La città sotto inchiesta/ [The City Under Investigation] |

|In postwar Italy, the city became a contested and unstable object of 
cinematic inquiry. From the mid-1950s onward, filmmakers and television 
producers turned to Italian urban spaces, using shifts in scale, 
fragmentary editing, and mobile viewpoints to interrogate the 
relationship between social life and the contemporary spatial 
transformations. The seminar series approaches the “filmed inquiry” as a 
critical film practice that links aesthetic forms to political urgency, 
focusing in particular on the housing question as a defining issue of 
the period.|

|The programme forms part of the Michalsky Department’s ongoing research 
on /Cinematic Space 
<https://www.biblhertz.it/en/dept-michalsky/italian-films>/, exploring 
how film generates spatial imaginaries at the intersection of visuality, 
mediality, and historical experience. The selected films are presented 
as case studies within a structured research framework, examining how 
the genre of the filmed inquiry articulated spatial conflicts 
surrounding migration, planning, and housing in postwar Italy. The 
screenings are integral to the seminar’s analytical methodology and 
function as primary research materials for discussion and scholarly 
investigation. The seminars are organised as evening screenings followed 
by analysis and discussion sessions the following morning.|

|Full programme details are available here: 
https://www.biblhertz.it/events/44756/2643800|

/|The seminars are organised as evening screenings followed by analysis 
and discussion sessions the following morning. |Please note that all 
events are held in person in Rome. No online participation is available./

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      |Film Seminar Programme|


        |FILM SEMINAR 1|

|10 March 2026 – I misteri di Roma (C. Zavattini, 1963) @ Villino 
Stroganoff, 18:00–20:00|

|11 March 2026 – Analysis and discussion @ Palazzo Zuccari, Meeting 
Room, 10:00–12:00|

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        |FILM SEMINAR 2|

|31 March 2026 – Meridionali a Torino (B. Giordani and U. Zatterin, 
1961); Fata Morgana (L. Del Fra, 1961) @ Villino Stroganoff, 18:00–20:00|

|1 April 2026 – Analysis and discussion @ Palazzo Zuccari, Meeting Room, 
10:00–12:00|

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        |FILM SEMINAR 3|

|14 April 2026 – Cortile Cascino (R. M. Young and M. Roemer, 1962); 
Licht für Palermo (Karl Gass, 1961) @ Villino Stroganoff 18:00–20:00|

|15 April 2026 – Analysis and discussion @ Palazzo Zuccari, Meeting 
Room, 10:00–12:00|

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        |FILM SEMINAR 4|

|12 May 2026 – La casa in Italia (L. Cavani, 1964) @ Villino Stroganoff, 
19:00–21:00|

|13 May 2026 – Analysis and discussion @ Palazzo Zuccari, Meeting Room, 
10:00–12:00|

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For further information, please contact:

_*Andrea Gelardi*_

Postdoctoral Fellow

Abteilung Michalsky

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte

Via Gregoriana 28 | 00187 Roma | www.biblhertz.it


(andrea.gelardi /at/ biblhertz.it)


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