Festivals have always been accelerators of stories, encounters, visions, discoveries, escapes, hiding. They are fragile and resistant devices at the same time: fragile because the traces they leave in collective memories and archival sources are few and ephemeral; resistant because in their persistence from edition to edition they contribute to defining the habits of the gaze, the dynamics of taste, social values and historiographical paradigms.
A project curated by Marco Dalla Gassa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Carmelo Marabello (IUAV University of Venice – VIU Venice International University) which intends to enhance the stories, memories and resources of a intangible wealth. Thanks to the joint effort of a work team involving the Ca’ Foscari, IUAV and VIU universities, plus the Circuito Cinema | Municipality of Venice, the AFIC – Association of Italian Film Festivals and the CUC – Consulta Universitaria Cinema, six appointments are held between autumn and winter dedicated to some of the most important festivals in the Italian language: on 30 November the lens focuses on the Far East Film Festival in Udine, an indispensable audience for Asian cinema in the world, with a dialogue between Sabrina Baracetti, President and Artistic Director of the festival, and Federico Zecca of the University of Bari Aldo Moro.
