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Memories from Japan: Grave of the Fireflies
For thirty years, Studio Ghibli has been one of the most important animation studios in the world. One of the first movies created by...
Tommaso Carlo Mascolo
28 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Wolf Hall, or Early Modern England
2009 and 2015: these two years marked an important moment in British literary and cinematographic industry. In 2009, Hilary Mantel wrote...
Andrea Di Carlo
28 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
A Beautiful Salvador’s
On August 1st 1953, Salvador Dalì wrote in his journal “I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it” while...
Maria Vittoria di Sabatino
26 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Of Horses and Vegetables: Wonders from Arte Povera
Often described as a form of conceptualism, Arte Povera (Impoverished Art) was an Italian movement born sometime around 1966 throughout...
Giulia Carletti
23 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 4 min
The Club of Silence
In a small town by seaside, there is a house where four priests and a nun live together. They were sent there by the Catholic Church...
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
22 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Hugo Pratt's encounters
Les Ethiopiques, watercolor, 1978. After Bruxelles and Angoulême, Comicon and ARF! Festival have brought Hugo Pratt’s exhibition to Rome....
Giulia Carletti
17 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Dheepan's Intimate and Social Dimension
Dheepan tackles social issues in an intimate manner, thanks to a fluid narrative which is able to create visual paths that reveal the...
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
15 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Narrative Techniques in At the Edge of the Orchard
In the beginning of the 19th Century, James and Sadie Goodenough move from the safety of Connecticut to the wild Black Swamp in Ohio. The...
Antonella Codeferi
14 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Zhangke Jia and his vision of China
Film has always been an excellent way to talk about modern society, and some movies can give an interesting view of our times. A good...
Tommaso Carlo Mascolo
12 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
A City of Constrasts: Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury at MAXXI
Istanbul has always been a melting pot of different cultures and a bridge between Eastern and Western realities. However, the recent and...
Flavia Catarinelli
10 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Highlights from the ICA: Walid Raad’s Tricking Truth
Boston city, MA, is arguably more famous for its academic institutions and, perhaps, its prestigious marathon race, rather than for art....
Patricia Plaszczyk
7 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
It's a thing of the past: John Donne's methaphysical poetry
The sixteenth century witnessed a real rupture in the European socio-cultural fabric: geographical discoveries marked the isolation of...
Andrea Di Carlo
7 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Belting's “Shadows”: From Dante's Divina Commedia to Visual Arts
Last month, on the 6th of April, the Art History Department of La Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) hosted one of the most influential...
Giorgia Tamburi
4 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Arianna, a Postmodern ‘Thread’ into Labyrinth
Arianna is the story of a nineteen-year-old intersexual person, castrated at the age of three and sex-reassigned through cosmetic...
Jasmine Manari
1 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
The Last Will Be the Last: the drama of unemployment
The Last Will Be the Last (Gli ultimi saranno ultimi) is the second movie directed by Massimiliano Bruno, starring Paola Cortellesi and...
Tommaso Carlo Mascolo
28 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Six things you probably didn’t know about Futurism
Born as the most instinctual and – possibly – irrational response to 20th century scientific and technological innovations, Futurism was...
Giulia Carletti
26 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 4 min
Kentridge's Triumphs and Laments: Two Volunteers' Perspective on the Project
Rome. The performance that developed April 21 and 22 2016 along the banks of the RiverTiber was an inspiring gift by South African artist...
Giulia Carletti; Maria Vittoria di Sabatino
23 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Shakespeare: 400 years later
In German they call it Nachleben, the reception of a literary figure or an epoch at later stages. On April the 23rd, the whole world is...
Andrea Di Carlo
23 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Jeeg Robot, an Italian superhero
At Tor Bella Monaca, the rough suburbs of Rome, Enzo Ceccotti (Claudio Santamaria) finds out he has developed superpowers after falling...
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
21 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Those Guys at the Cafè: the Macchiaioli
Exhibitions in Rome are known to be mostly about Impressionists and Macchiaioli. If the former group is loved worldwide, not many know...
Flavia Catarinelli
19 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
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