MARTERCLASS
18 OCT | 18H00 | BATALHA CENTRO DE CINEMA - SALA 1 | 180’
The invisible breath of cinema
Il soffio invisibile del cinema
(Masterclass in ensglish)
This is not a lecture but more a free speech, an invitation to a cinematic journey. This journey starts with a question: which is the goal of someone who wants to make a film? In my opinion it’s not the need to give an information. For me cinema has a different aim, like art and poetry. It has to evoke, to create emotions, to ask questions. In this sense, the desire to construct an “image” refers to the possibility of filming the visible in order to capture the unseen. That’s to say, filming man to refer to humanity, filming the body to perceive the soul. In the end, it is a question of filming the “invisible”. And what is more invisible than breath, that rules the essence of life, not only life on Earth, but life in the universe? Films are made of light and sound; and try to reproduce life. And in order to reproduce life, they have to catch the breath of the world. Breath is a sign of life. But breath is not the same for everyone. So also each film should find its breath, mixing the breath of the real life, captured by the camera and the mics, and the breath of the one who is filming this reality. So a film is alive if it’s breathing with its own breath. In this journey we will see some different breathes and some different ways to try to film the “invisible”…
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LUCIANO BARISONE
Film-club host, journalist and film critic for specialist magazines (Filmcritica, Cineforum, Duellanti) and newspapers (La Stampa, Il Manifesto), he founded the magazine Panoramiques, which he directed several years. He has written monographs on Catherine Breillat, Robert Guédiguian, Clint Eastwood, Naomi Kawase, Nicolas Philibert, Les Films d'Ici and Sydney Pollack. Since 1997, he has collaborated at numerous international film festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival and the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica of Venice. From 1999 to 2004 he worked as consultant and reader of projects for the Swiss Fund Montecinemaverità.
In 2002, he founded the Alba Infinity Festival, for which he has acted as artistic director until 2007. In 2008, 2009 and 2011 he acted as tutor at the Master Documental of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. From 2008 to 2010 he has been the artistic director at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence. Between 2011 and 2017 he’s been the director of Visions du Réel in Nyon.
He has acted as member of the jury at Cannes (Caméra d'or 1997), Marseille (Fid, 2000), Valladolid (Seminci, 2003), Buenos Aires (Bafici, 2004), Lisbon (DocLisboa2004), Pamplona (Punto de Vista, 2008), Tel Aviv (DocAviv, 2008), Paris (Cinéma du Réel, 2009), Yerevan (Golden Apricot International Film Festival, 2010), Jihlava (2010), Toronto (Hot Docs, 2011), Sderot (Cinema South Festival, 2011), Sarajevo (2011), IDFA Amsterdam (2011), etc…
Currently he’s an artistic producer and an international consultant for cinema markets and international film festivals.