The eighth edition of the Locarno Film Festival’s springtime event L’immagine e la parola will begin on 27 March. The focus for its regular interdisciplinary look at film and literature will be the Italian writer Nicola Lagioia, winner of the Strega Prize in 2015 for his novel La ferocia (Ferocity) and director of the Turin International Book Fair. The event will be held online, hosted on the Festival website. L’immagine e la parola will also provide the occasion for the official presentation of the Locarno74 Retrospective, dedicated to Alberto Lattuada.
The return of spring brings back the customary seasonal event L’immagine e la parola, now in its eighth edition after an enforced break in 2020. This year sees the introduction of an online format, allowing for further analysis and investigation of the relations between cinema and literature. Center stage will be taken by a high-profile figure in Italian culture, Nicola Lagioia, one of the country’s leading novelists and a longstanding source of inspiration as both a writer and a cultural operator.
On Saturday 27 March at 4 pm Lagioia, currently Director of the Turin International Book Fair, will join with Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro in a panel discussion held at the GranRex theater in Locarno. Their conversation will be titled “La città dei vivi. Rethinking creative practice and cultural programming” and for the public it will be streamed live on the Festival website. With representatives of two of Europe’s leading cultural institutions contributing, the discussion will reflect on the role of art and its promotion at this critical juncture in our history, on possible reset strategies post-Covid, and on holding major events in the time of a pandemic.
The presence of guest Nicola Lagioia, whose recent acclaimed non-fiction novel La città dei vivi reconstructs the 2016 murder in Rome of 23-year-old Luca Varani, charting the role of the media in the narrative of the killing, will also be the cue for the official presentation of the Retrospective of the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, dedicated to Alberto Lattuada. The title picked out for the occasion from the director’s long and varied filmography will be La spiaggia (The Boarder, 1954), itself inspired by real events and, like Lagioia’s true crime novel, based on careful analysis of the societal dynamics of the period and the impact of prejudice on individual behaviors. The film will be streamed free of charge on the Festival website on Saturday 27 March from 8 pm to midnight (CET).
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As an ancillary initiative to L’immagine e la parola, on Friday 26 March the Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, Giona A. Nazzaro, will join the panel of a Roundtable with industry professionals entitled “Films in the time of streaming: alternative promotion, launch and distribution models”. Organized by the Ticino Film Commission in collaboration with CISA and PalaCinema. The Roundtable, streamed live, will be moderated by the filmmaker and newly appointed Head of the Ticino Film Commission, Niccolò Castelli, together with Giona A. Nazzaro. |
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08.03.2021 | Locarno Dailies's blog
Cat. : PEOPLE