Bordercinema

Otvoritev retrospektive Oriente Vzhod / Occidente Zahod – Meja skozi film in zgodovino

We warmly invite you to a full-day film program marking the opening of the retrospective Oriente Vzhod / Occidente Zahod – The Border Through Film and History. The program will explore life in border regions, both past and present, through carefully selected film screenings, conversations with creators, a roundtable on the advantages of multicultural border spaces, a special film walk through Gorizia, and an evening opening, followed by the screening of both archival and contemporary short films.

Highlights/

Cinema in Udine

To discuss the history of cine-club culture in Udine, one must start with Guido Galanti, who in 1930 founded Cine Club Udine—the third cine-club in Italy in chronological order. Alongside him, Renato Spinotti (Dante Spinotti’s uncle) must also be mentioned. In 1934, Cine Club produced the 16mm medium-length film Giornate di sole (Sunny Days), a comedy directed and performed by Galanti, with cinematography by Spinotti. The opening title card featured a hand-drawn depiction of the angel on Udine’s hill and the inscription “La Galanti Film presenta” (Galanti Film Presents). Author: Giorgio Placereani

Trieste – A World in One City

Today I will attempt to summarize the development of cinematic culture in Trieste. I will discuss some well-known facts, such as the favourable view of cinema held by Trieste’s writers and intellectuals, or the city’s role as a bridge between Western and Eastern cinema. However, I also want to highlight a less discussed aspect: the presence of women in Trieste’s cinematic culture over the years. Author: Paolo Lughi

Notes and Observations on the Concept of Cinematic Culture in Gorizia Part II: The Contemporary State of the Art

Looking at the past forty years of the relationship between cinema and Gorizia, and examining the key initiatives responsible both for the survival of these connections and for the evolution of this renewed cinematic culture, one cannot help but observe an important distinction that warrants the reader’s attention. Author: Steven Stergar

PREPLETENE IDENTITETE IN ZLITJE KULTUR

Meje po eni strani zapirajo državo, njeno kulturo, vendar so hkrati tudi vhodna vrata k nečemu drugemu, k tistemu, kar je onkraj, in so zato neizbežno izpostavljene odnosu bližine s tem »drugim«, odnosu, ki se ga vse prepogosto izkorišča za ustvarjanje sporov in nasprotij.