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The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and po... more The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the contradictions of post-war Italy’s cultural history, starting from the assumption that conducting a critical reflection on Italian postwar visual culture requires investigating the inevitable impact of Catholic religion on everyday life in its social, political and cultural dimensions. The volume takes advantage of the privileged position of cinema to explore and critique religion’s influence on the Italian cultural landscape. This edited anthology thus seeks to probe how religion is experienced, practiced, criticized and represented from various methodological perspectives (historical, philological, aesthetic, psychoanalytical, popular studies, etc.) through four main sections: ‘Propaganda and Censorship’, ‘Framing Belief: Pasolini and Petri’, ‘Religion in Italian Popular Cinema’ and ‘Ancient Rituals, Modern Myths’.

Contributors: Roberto Cavallini, Roberto Chiesi, Silvia Dibeltulo, Juan Juvé, Fernando Pagnoni, Laura Rascaroli, Daniele Rugo, Tomaso Subini, Daniela Treveri Gennari, Fabio Vighi.

Publications (book chapters, journal articles etc) by Roberto Cavallini

New Cinemas, 2018

This article examines Bernard Stiegler’s notions of cinematic consciousness and tertiary memory, ... more This article examines Bernard Stiegler’s notions of cinematic consciousness and tertiary memory, developed in his philosophy of time and technology, in relation to the essay film's aesthetic and storytelling features. I begin by illustrating Stiegler’s ideas in relation to cinema, consciousness, memory and technology; making use of the recent and widely acclaimed TV series reboot Westworld, I employ it as an allegory of the functionality of cinema as mnemotechnology. Furthermore, considering how the essay film questions cinema’s industrialization effect through Stiegler’s theorization of cinema qua tertiary memory, I look at the work of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Mysterious Object at Noon (1999) to argue how the essay film is a radical practice that stages thought in order to de-synchronize the consciousness of cinema.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ventures into the essay film form provide, in films such as La Rabbia (The ... more Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ventures into the essay film form provide, in films such as La Rabbia (The Rage, 1963) and Appunti per un’Orestiade africana (Notes towards an African Orestes, 1970), an interrogation on the experience of temporality and the ways in which it redefines notions of cultural memory and tradition. The aim of this article is to theorize, within Pasolini’s essayistic practice, a conception of temporality based on an expanded notion of writing, in the context of the essay film’s peculiar position in the history of film cultures. Looking at the ways in which tradition as intertexuality is constructed in La Rabbia and how cultural mediation is transformed into poetic necessity in Appunti per un’Orestiade africana, I argue that Pasolini’s essayistic films should be considered as reflections on the way in which we intellectually and historically experience time in our modern world.

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Klaus Kinski, Beast of Cinema: Critical Essays and Fellow Filmmaker Interviews (Edited by Matthew Edwards)

“Few good actors have made more bad movies than did Kinski”. This is how William Grance, with s... more “Few good actors have made more bad movies than did Kinski”. This is how William Grance, with such a straightforward claim has indisputably summarized the figure of Klaus Kinski and his acting career in his "Historical Dictionary of German Theater". It is difficult not to conceive of Kinski’s presence in the history of cinema as one of the few actors who were able to perform exactly such contradiction: an incredible and talented actor in, most of all, quickly crafted movies with poor artistic ambition. The aim of this chapter is to investigate this contradiction embedded in Kinski’s persona, focusing on a comparative study of his performances. I will employ sequences from different films to consider stylization as Kinski’s great contribution to cinema and acting. I am interested in following his transitional trajectory from the exploitation period in Italian Cinema, evaluating his acting presence in these different film productions and finally understand the versatility of his performances which makes him the anti-hero or ‘nihilistic desperado’ par excellence in the work of Werner Herzog.
I will look in particular at three films belonging to three different film genres, released few years before Aguirre: the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) and directed by three Italian directors: the thriller/psychological drama "A doppia faccia" (‘Double face’, Riccardo Freda, 1969), the gothic horror/nocturnal spaghetti western "E Dio disse a Caino" (‘And God said to Cain’, Antonio Margheriti, 1970), one of the forty movies included in the Spaghetti Western retrospective screened during the 64th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica Venezia in 2007, and the euro sleaze soft-core giallo "La bestia uccide a sangue freddo" (aka Slaughter Hotel, or Asylum Erotica, Fernando Di Leo, 1971). In these films, which belong to the lower forms of Italian Popular Cinema and are directed by three directors who have a consistent directing style, Kinski plays very different roles: a millionaire husband, a man in search of revenge and a psychiatrist. All three roles are somehow positive roles and present Kinski in different acting dimensions which will allow me to inspect his adaptability to every story he played in. Moreover, the discussion about these movies and Kinski’s performances will be contextualized in relation to the recent debate concerning bad cinema and b-movies and their status in film criticism and film studies. Finally, the aim of this chapter is to trace Kinski’s stylization method and how he was reframed and re-coded by Herzog’s intervention, showing his trajectory without solution of continuity from bad cinema to Herzog’s films.

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Aniki vol. 2, n.º 2 (2015): 184-200 | ISSN 2183-1750, Jul 2015

In his trilogy, comprising La Libertad (2001), Los Muertos (2004) and Liverpool (2008), Argentin... more In his trilogy, comprising La Libertad (2001), Los Muertos (2004) and
Liverpool (2008), Argentinean director Lisandro Alonso employs a
distinctive narrative motif, namely the journey of the solitary individual
through desolated landscapes in rural Argentina. From a
comparative point of view, the key to understanding these introverted
trajectories is to consider Alonso’s construction of narrative space
around the misery of a stark void, namely the absence of home. For
Alonso, home is not a peaceful destination, connoting the intimacy
of a family, serenity or simply a place where one is allowed to dream
in peace (Bachelard 1994, 6). The absence of home becomes the
blind spot of these journeys: home turns out to be a broken horizon.
In this essay I will mainly focus on the film Los Muertos and the way
in which it radicalizes narrative space through the combination of
cinematic silence (absence of words and dialogues) and cinematic
slowness (the use of long-takes), while formulating a void which coincides
with the protagonist’s homelessness. Moreover, positioning
my effort within the growing field of slow cinema studies, this essay
considers how Alonso’s radical cinematic realism problematizes the
concept of authenticity in its aesthetic and political dimensions.

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Conference Proceedings - 5T: Gendered Perspective in Design, Yaşar University, Izmir., 2015

In Orhan Pamuk’s novel ‘The Museum of Innocence’, Kemal, the protagonist, while accurately recoun... more In Orhan Pamuk’s novel ‘The Museum of Innocence’, Kemal, the protagonist, while accurately recounting his love story with Füsun, engages with an obsessive act of collecting numerous artefacts of his life with her. The novel is now a museum, which is housed in a building in the Çukurcuma neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, with the 83 chapters transformed into 83 boxes. In this essay I would like to explore the ways in which the gendered objectification of Füsun is enacted in the museum. Füsun is indeed a spectral figure within the museum’s walls: her figure is condensed in every single thing the viewer encounters yet her absence is signified through the fetishism of objects which in turn are transformed into works of art (Box 68, 4213 Cigarette Stubs, which contains all the cigarette stubs discarded by Füsun and collected by Kemal between 1976 and 1984, is a telling example in this sense). Pamuk’s achievement, from a Foucauldian perspective, questions the role of museums as contested sites of knowledge, articulated through the construction of subjectivity and history. However, museums are also gendered spaces of representation and classification. In this sense, various questions should be posited: how is memory performed in the Museum of Innocence? How is the gendering and aestheticization of objects, imposed by Füsun’s spectral absence, played out in this invented and autobiographical wunderkammer of love? This essay is divided in three parts. In the first part my aim is to consider the Museum of Innocence as a contemporary wunderkammer, briefly retracing the origin of this tradition until more recent critical examples such as Joseph Cornell’s sculpture boxes, Sophie Calle’s and Mark Dion’s installations until Damien Hirst’s cabinets like ‘The Void’ (2007), which are usually framed under the caption of the ethnographic turn in contemporary art. The second part will focus on the gendering of space within the Museum of Innocence through the spectral figure of Füsun. My claim is that Füsun’s objectification could be interpreted through Luce Irigaray’s notion of the feminine as an inscriptional space, that is as a mere mirroring of masculinity. The third part of the essay will consider how Pamuk’s artistic endeavour could exemplify an act of secondary memory (Nora) or prosthetic memory (Lindsberg), an interruption of modernity inscribed between the materiality of common things and the traces of personal memories. Through these notions, I will propose a shift in signification from the figure of Füsun to the city of Istanbul, a distant and forgotten image of the city in Pamuk’s personal memories.

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Italia 1977: crocevia di un cambiamento, Feb 2014

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Marlisa Santos (ed.), 'Verse, Voice, and Vision: Cinema and Poetry', 2013

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"Playing the City", Edited by Sandra Annunziata & Cristina Mattiucci, Mar 2013

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ANTONIONI AND THE MYSTERY OF REALITY YEAR VIII ~ ISSUE 18 ~ JULY-DECEMBER 2012, Jul 31, 2012

"This essay sets out from a basic premise: to perform a close reading of Antonioni’s short docume... more "This essay sets out from a basic premise: to perform a close reading of Antonioni’s short documentary L’amorosa menzogna (1949), followed by some considerations on Jacques Rancière’s rethinking of the concept of documentary as a mode of fiction and Antonioni’s views on truth and authenticity. L’amorosa menzogna is certainly a minor work within Antonioni’s overall oeuvre. However, I argue that it contains an already fully developed aesthetic dimension that explores the transitional elements, within a documentary perspective, of what Rancière would call the “labour of fiction”. It is somehow difficult and probably hazardous to discuss and theorize on such a minor work without falling into a generalizing discourse. My limited attempt here would be to approach L’amorosa menzogna as one would look at a miniature: I believe that its brevity and dimension do not reduce its refined structure and cinematic intensity. However, choosing to approach the film in this way does not mean to downgrade it as a inaugural, immature work by a young Antonioni preparing for his feature film debut with Cronaca di un amore (1950). On the contrary, the minuteness of a miniature does not conceal the autonomy of its visual composition although the iconography and its construction can be experienced as less direct and straightforward. In the context of Antonioni’s oeuvre, I definitely agree with the inevitable necessity to consider his early films as autonomous works; they not only anticipate strategies of vision and composition that can be found in Antonioni’s later works but, as Leonardo Quaresima insists, they should also be thought as foundational to neo-realism’s poetics, as an intrinsic product of neo-realism.[i]
I would argue that Antonioni’s early films in general and L’amorosa menzogna in particular, which is constructed in a style based on an extremely refined mise-en-scene, points precisely towards an understanding of (documentary) cinema as “the labour of fiction”, borrowing an expression from Jacques Rancière’s work which will be developed further throughout the essay."

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"Memories from the Unknown" is an archival fiction narrative; it tells the story of a man that fo... more "Memories from the Unknown" is an archival fiction narrative; it tells the story of a man that found himself locked inside a room and starts being haunted by memories, visions and hallucinations. The textual narrative is built through a fragmentary archive, told in first-person, that navigates the nuances between history, subjectivation and witnessing, interrupted by a visual flashback authored by photographer Elisa D'Ippolito.
The book was an outcome of the one-year artistic research project 'On Dissent: a collective narrative', conceived and developed by Roberto Cavallini, Carla Esperanza Tommasini and Tuna Yilmaz with the support of EU-Turkey Tandem, a cultural exchange programme by the European Cultural Foundation and Stiftung Mercator, in collaboration with MitOst, Anadolu Kultur and Bilgi University.
The book was published with the support of European Cultural Foundation and Stiftung Mercator and it has been presented in Istanbul (Depo Art Space), Berlin and Trento."

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Come sottolinea il filosofo americano Stanley Cavell, il cinema, al contrario delle altre arti, a... more Come sottolinea il filosofo americano Stanley Cavell, il cinema, al contrario delle altre arti, afferma qualcosa della propria energia nelle manifestazioni piu’ ‘comuni’ come in quelle di indubbio genio.
Mosso da questa constatazione – che attraversa il cinema per arrivare al discorso filosofico – il contributo qui offerto tenta di fare luce sulla serieta’ del melodramma, o meglio sul ‘serio melodrammatico’. Esporre il serio al melodrammatico, cio’ che in alcune istanze sfugge ad una semplice caratterizzazione di genere, significa prima di tutto prendere sul serio il genere di per se’ e quindi cominciare ad allentare le sue possibilita’ facendo emergere qualcosa. Significa inoltre rendere giustizia ad una serie di opere il cui contributo va ben al di la’ della risistemazione di un’ipotetica tassanomia cinematografica, imponendo una riflessione sulle possibilita’ stesse del cinema.
Annotato l’intento quindi, il procedimento si e’ incentrato sulla possibilita’ di articolare le passioni considerate piu’ trite del melodramma in modo da mobilitare non cio’ che questi films nascondono, ma cio’ che deve la propria marginalita’ all’evidenza.
L’ovvio del melodrammatico, cio’ che viene subito esposto –passioni inconciliabili con la realta’ esterna –mette in moto un discorso ‘serio’ sull’esaustione del soggetto. Il melodramma, almeno alcuni casi illuminanti, esprime l’insopportabile tensione di una vita senza vergogna.
Il primo contributo di questo volume si concentra in particolare su di uno spostamento decisivo che avviene nel momento in cui il melodramma si sposta (uno spostamento di ritorno) da Hollywood all’Europa. Il confronto in particolare e’ facilitato dall’analisi ravvicinata di un lavoro di Vincent Minnelli e uno del regista tedesco Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
La lettura dell’opera di Chabrol ‘Les Biches’ si pone in quest’ottica come problematica pietra di paragone. Il saggio che vi e’ qui dedicato infatti non ne affronta semplicemente l’emblematicita’, ma la spinge ad un momento di rottura, il momento cioe’ in cui il rapporto erotico come rapporto di possesso sfigura di fronte alla propria promessa.
A concludere il lavoro, l’intervista a Juliane Lorenz, montatrice degli ultimi film di Fassbinder – nonche’ ex-moglie e presidentessa della fondazione intitolata al regista Tedesco – offre alcuni spunti inediti circa lavori non ultimati e ambizioni insoddisfatte del grande autore capace in poco piu’ che quindici anni di carriera di produrre una quarantina di films.
Lo spezzone di sceneggiatura allegato in chiusura – tratto da un lavoro in corso di Daniele Rugo – oltre che come tributo a RWF, intende riaprire idealmente le questioni trattate verso le possibilita’ attuali del melodrammatico.

Damascus 2008: three people suddenly disappear. Zaat al-Abed, a presumed secret agent, Leena Kilk... more Damascus 2008: three people suddenly disappear. Zaat al-Abed, a presumed secret agent, Leena Kilkka, curator of the Damascus Biennial, an event that never happens , and a flâneur, whose diary is accidentally lost and found.
Damascus: Tourists, Artists, Secret Agents is a pseudo-fictitious encounter of artists, dancers, secret agents, speculative writers, lovers, film-makers and photographers who come together to unravel the rumors, questions and traces of the mysterious disappearances that happen in the subconscious urban setting of one of the world's oldest cities.
The idiosyncratic novel is the outcome of a Reloading Images collaboration and an ongoing platform for artistic research, involving more than thirty international artists and writers. 'Reloading Images: Damascus / Work in Progress 2008' is a playground for discursive practices on artistic agency that happened in relation to Damascus, the actual city, and that of our imagination.
Edited by Kaya Behkalam, Paula Bugni, Beatrice Catanzaro, Roberto Cavallini, Azin Feizabadi, Carla Esperanza Tommasini, Sarah Rifky, Ashkan Sepahvand / Reloading Images
With contributions by Salina Abaza, Jan Ackenhausen, Woroud Ahdali, Isa Andreu, Kaya Behkalam, Omar Berakdar, Paula Bugni, Beatrice Catanzaro, Roberto Cavallini, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Azin Feizabadi, Soudade Kaadan, Sophia Krey-Kolios, Gabriel Martinez, Gabriella Micale, Sanna Miericke, Raqs Media Collective, Rania Mleihi, Ersan Ocak, Juergen Rendl, Sarah Rifky, Adel Samara, Manuela Scebba, Ashkan Sepahvand, Carla Esperanza Tommasini, Hanadi Traifeh, Kianoosh Vahabi and Wu Ming 4

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Connections 5: conference proceedings

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in Aurora Fonda (ed.), Borders: ricerca multimediale sui confini oggi, A+A Gallery, Venice: Patagonia Art, 2005., 2005

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in AA. VV., 50esima Biennale of Visual Art Revisited, edited by Stefano Cagol and Francesca Cancellier, Mazzanti Editori: Venezia, 2004., 2004

Reviews, articles, interviews etc by Roberto Cavallini

SCENARI_Il settimanale di approfondimento di Mimesis Edizioni, Dec 11, 2015

SCENARI_Il settimanale di approfondimento di Mimesis Edizioni, Jul 10, 2015

Un'analisi del film-saggio 'Concerning Violence' (2014) di Göran Hugo Olsson, a partire dal pensi... more Un'analisi del film-saggio 'Concerning Violence' (2014) di Göran Hugo Olsson, a partire dal pensiero post-coloniale di Frantz Fanon su cui il film si basa, riattualizzandone la prospettiva critica.

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The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and po... more The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the contradictions of post-war Italy’s cultural history, starting from the assumption that conducting a critical reflection on Italian postwar visual culture requires investigating the inevitable impact of Catholic religion on everyday life in its social, political and cultural dimensions. The volume takes advantage of the privileged position of cinema to explore and critique religion’s influence on the Italian cultural landscape. This edited anthology thus seeks to probe how religion is experienced, practiced, criticized and represented from various methodological perspectives (historical, philological, aesthetic, psychoanalytical, popular studies, etc.) through four main sections: ‘Propaganda and Censorship’, ‘Framing Belief: Pasolini and Petri’, ‘Religion in Italian Popular Cinema’ and ‘Ancient Rituals, Modern Myths’.

Contributors: Roberto Cavallini, Roberto Chiesi, Silvia Dibeltulo, Juan Juvé, Fernando Pagnoni, Laura Rascaroli, Daniele Rugo, Tomaso Subini, Daniela Treveri Gennari, Fabio Vighi.

New Cinemas, 2018

This article examines Bernard Stiegler’s notions of cinematic consciousness and tertiary memory, ... more This article examines Bernard Stiegler’s notions of cinematic consciousness and tertiary memory, developed in his philosophy of time and technology, in relation to the essay film's aesthetic and storytelling features. I begin by illustrating Stiegler’s ideas in relation to cinema, consciousness, memory and technology; making use of the recent and widely acclaimed TV series reboot Westworld, I employ it as an allegory of the functionality of cinema as mnemotechnology. Furthermore, considering how the essay film questions cinema’s industrialization effect through Stiegler’s theorization of cinema qua tertiary memory, I look at the work of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Mysterious Object at Noon (1999) to argue how the essay film is a radical practice that stages thought in order to de-synchronize the consciousness of cinema.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ventures into the essay film form provide, in films such as La Rabbia (The ... more Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ventures into the essay film form provide, in films such as La Rabbia (The Rage, 1963) and Appunti per un’Orestiade africana (Notes towards an African Orestes, 1970), an interrogation on the experience of temporality and the ways in which it redefines notions of cultural memory and tradition. The aim of this article is to theorize, within Pasolini’s essayistic practice, a conception of temporality based on an expanded notion of writing, in the context of the essay film’s peculiar position in the history of film cultures. Looking at the ways in which tradition as intertexuality is constructed in La Rabbia and how cultural mediation is transformed into poetic necessity in Appunti per un’Orestiade africana, I argue that Pasolini’s essayistic films should be considered as reflections on the way in which we intellectually and historically experience time in our modern world.

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Klaus Kinski, Beast of Cinema: Critical Essays and Fellow Filmmaker Interviews (Edited by Matthew Edwards)

“Few good actors have made more bad movies than did Kinski”. This is how William Grance, with s... more “Few good actors have made more bad movies than did Kinski”. This is how William Grance, with such a straightforward claim has indisputably summarized the figure of Klaus Kinski and his acting career in his "Historical Dictionary of German Theater". It is difficult not to conceive of Kinski’s presence in the history of cinema as one of the few actors who were able to perform exactly such contradiction: an incredible and talented actor in, most of all, quickly crafted movies with poor artistic ambition. The aim of this chapter is to investigate this contradiction embedded in Kinski’s persona, focusing on a comparative study of his performances. I will employ sequences from different films to consider stylization as Kinski’s great contribution to cinema and acting. I am interested in following his transitional trajectory from the exploitation period in Italian Cinema, evaluating his acting presence in these different film productions and finally understand the versatility of his performances which makes him the anti-hero or ‘nihilistic desperado’ par excellence in the work of Werner Herzog.
I will look in particular at three films belonging to three different film genres, released few years before Aguirre: the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) and directed by three Italian directors: the thriller/psychological drama "A doppia faccia" (‘Double face’, Riccardo Freda, 1969), the gothic horror/nocturnal spaghetti western "E Dio disse a Caino" (‘And God said to Cain’, Antonio Margheriti, 1970), one of the forty movies included in the Spaghetti Western retrospective screened during the 64th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica Venezia in 2007, and the euro sleaze soft-core giallo "La bestia uccide a sangue freddo" (aka Slaughter Hotel, or Asylum Erotica, Fernando Di Leo, 1971). In these films, which belong to the lower forms of Italian Popular Cinema and are directed by three directors who have a consistent directing style, Kinski plays very different roles: a millionaire husband, a man in search of revenge and a psychiatrist. All three roles are somehow positive roles and present Kinski in different acting dimensions which will allow me to inspect his adaptability to every story he played in. Moreover, the discussion about these movies and Kinski’s performances will be contextualized in relation to the recent debate concerning bad cinema and b-movies and their status in film criticism and film studies. Finally, the aim of this chapter is to trace Kinski’s stylization method and how he was reframed and re-coded by Herzog’s intervention, showing his trajectory without solution of continuity from bad cinema to Herzog’s films.

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Aniki vol. 2, n.º 2 (2015): 184-200 | ISSN 2183-1750, Jul 2015

In his trilogy, comprising La Libertad (2001), Los Muertos (2004) and Liverpool (2008), Argentin... more In his trilogy, comprising La Libertad (2001), Los Muertos (2004) and
Liverpool (2008), Argentinean director Lisandro Alonso employs a
distinctive narrative motif, namely the journey of the solitary individual
through desolated landscapes in rural Argentina. From a
comparative point of view, the key to understanding these introverted
trajectories is to consider Alonso’s construction of narrative space
around the misery of a stark void, namely the absence of home. For
Alonso, home is not a peaceful destination, connoting the intimacy
of a family, serenity or simply a place where one is allowed to dream
in peace (Bachelard 1994, 6). The absence of home becomes the
blind spot of these journeys: home turns out to be a broken horizon.
In this essay I will mainly focus on the film Los Muertos and the way
in which it radicalizes narrative space through the combination of
cinematic silence (absence of words and dialogues) and cinematic
slowness (the use of long-takes), while formulating a void which coincides
with the protagonist’s homelessness. Moreover, positioning
my effort within the growing field of slow cinema studies, this essay
considers how Alonso’s radical cinematic realism problematizes the
concept of authenticity in its aesthetic and political dimensions.

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Conference Proceedings - 5T: Gendered Perspective in Design, Yaşar University, Izmir., 2015

In Orhan Pamuk’s novel ‘The Museum of Innocence’, Kemal, the protagonist, while accurately recoun... more In Orhan Pamuk’s novel ‘The Museum of Innocence’, Kemal, the protagonist, while accurately recounting his love story with Füsun, engages with an obsessive act of collecting numerous artefacts of his life with her. The novel is now a museum, which is housed in a building in the Çukurcuma neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, with the 83 chapters transformed into 83 boxes. In this essay I would like to explore the ways in which the gendered objectification of Füsun is enacted in the museum. Füsun is indeed a spectral figure within the museum’s walls: her figure is condensed in every single thing the viewer encounters yet her absence is signified through the fetishism of objects which in turn are transformed into works of art (Box 68, 4213 Cigarette Stubs, which contains all the cigarette stubs discarded by Füsun and collected by Kemal between 1976 and 1984, is a telling example in this sense). Pamuk’s achievement, from a Foucauldian perspective, questions the role of museums as contested sites of knowledge, articulated through the construction of subjectivity and history. However, museums are also gendered spaces of representation and classification. In this sense, various questions should be posited: how is memory performed in the Museum of Innocence? How is the gendering and aestheticization of objects, imposed by Füsun’s spectral absence, played out in this invented and autobiographical wunderkammer of love? This essay is divided in three parts. In the first part my aim is to consider the Museum of Innocence as a contemporary wunderkammer, briefly retracing the origin of this tradition until more recent critical examples such as Joseph Cornell’s sculpture boxes, Sophie Calle’s and Mark Dion’s installations until Damien Hirst’s cabinets like ‘The Void’ (2007), which are usually framed under the caption of the ethnographic turn in contemporary art. The second part will focus on the gendering of space within the Museum of Innocence through the spectral figure of Füsun. My claim is that Füsun’s objectification could be interpreted through Luce Irigaray’s notion of the feminine as an inscriptional space, that is as a mere mirroring of masculinity. The third part of the essay will consider how Pamuk’s artistic endeavour could exemplify an act of secondary memory (Nora) or prosthetic memory (Lindsberg), an interruption of modernity inscribed between the materiality of common things and the traces of personal memories. Through these notions, I will propose a shift in signification from the figure of Füsun to the city of Istanbul, a distant and forgotten image of the city in Pamuk’s personal memories.

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Italia 1977: crocevia di un cambiamento, Feb 2014

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Marlisa Santos (ed.), 'Verse, Voice, and Vision: Cinema and Poetry', 2013

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"Playing the City", Edited by Sandra Annunziata & Cristina Mattiucci, Mar 2013

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ANTONIONI AND THE MYSTERY OF REALITY YEAR VIII ~ ISSUE 18 ~ JULY-DECEMBER 2012, Jul 31, 2012

"This essay sets out from a basic premise: to perform a close reading of Antonioni’s short docume... more "This essay sets out from a basic premise: to perform a close reading of Antonioni’s short documentary L’amorosa menzogna (1949), followed by some considerations on Jacques Rancière’s rethinking of the concept of documentary as a mode of fiction and Antonioni’s views on truth and authenticity. L’amorosa menzogna is certainly a minor work within Antonioni’s overall oeuvre. However, I argue that it contains an already fully developed aesthetic dimension that explores the transitional elements, within a documentary perspective, of what Rancière would call the “labour of fiction”. It is somehow difficult and probably hazardous to discuss and theorize on such a minor work without falling into a generalizing discourse. My limited attempt here would be to approach L’amorosa menzogna as one would look at a miniature: I believe that its brevity and dimension do not reduce its refined structure and cinematic intensity. However, choosing to approach the film in this way does not mean to downgrade it as a inaugural, immature work by a young Antonioni preparing for his feature film debut with Cronaca di un amore (1950). On the contrary, the minuteness of a miniature does not conceal the autonomy of its visual composition although the iconography and its construction can be experienced as less direct and straightforward. In the context of Antonioni’s oeuvre, I definitely agree with the inevitable necessity to consider his early films as autonomous works; they not only anticipate strategies of vision and composition that can be found in Antonioni’s later works but, as Leonardo Quaresima insists, they should also be thought as foundational to neo-realism’s poetics, as an intrinsic product of neo-realism.[i]
I would argue that Antonioni’s early films in general and L’amorosa menzogna in particular, which is constructed in a style based on an extremely refined mise-en-scene, points precisely towards an understanding of (documentary) cinema as “the labour of fiction”, borrowing an expression from Jacques Rancière’s work which will be developed further throughout the essay."

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"Memories from the Unknown" is an archival fiction narrative; it tells the story of a man that fo... more "Memories from the Unknown" is an archival fiction narrative; it tells the story of a man that found himself locked inside a room and starts being haunted by memories, visions and hallucinations. The textual narrative is built through a fragmentary archive, told in first-person, that navigates the nuances between history, subjectivation and witnessing, interrupted by a visual flashback authored by photographer Elisa D'Ippolito.
The book was an outcome of the one-year artistic research project 'On Dissent: a collective narrative', conceived and developed by Roberto Cavallini, Carla Esperanza Tommasini and Tuna Yilmaz with the support of EU-Turkey Tandem, a cultural exchange programme by the European Cultural Foundation and Stiftung Mercator, in collaboration with MitOst, Anadolu Kultur and Bilgi University.
The book was published with the support of European Cultural Foundation and Stiftung Mercator and it has been presented in Istanbul (Depo Art Space), Berlin and Trento."

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Come sottolinea il filosofo americano Stanley Cavell, il cinema, al contrario delle altre arti, a... more Come sottolinea il filosofo americano Stanley Cavell, il cinema, al contrario delle altre arti, afferma qualcosa della propria energia nelle manifestazioni piu’ ‘comuni’ come in quelle di indubbio genio.
Mosso da questa constatazione – che attraversa il cinema per arrivare al discorso filosofico – il contributo qui offerto tenta di fare luce sulla serieta’ del melodramma, o meglio sul ‘serio melodrammatico’. Esporre il serio al melodrammatico, cio’ che in alcune istanze sfugge ad una semplice caratterizzazione di genere, significa prima di tutto prendere sul serio il genere di per se’ e quindi cominciare ad allentare le sue possibilita’ facendo emergere qualcosa. Significa inoltre rendere giustizia ad una serie di opere il cui contributo va ben al di la’ della risistemazione di un’ipotetica tassanomia cinematografica, imponendo una riflessione sulle possibilita’ stesse del cinema.
Annotato l’intento quindi, il procedimento si e’ incentrato sulla possibilita’ di articolare le passioni considerate piu’ trite del melodramma in modo da mobilitare non cio’ che questi films nascondono, ma cio’ che deve la propria marginalita’ all’evidenza.
L’ovvio del melodrammatico, cio’ che viene subito esposto –passioni inconciliabili con la realta’ esterna –mette in moto un discorso ‘serio’ sull’esaustione del soggetto. Il melodramma, almeno alcuni casi illuminanti, esprime l’insopportabile tensione di una vita senza vergogna.
Il primo contributo di questo volume si concentra in particolare su di uno spostamento decisivo che avviene nel momento in cui il melodramma si sposta (uno spostamento di ritorno) da Hollywood all’Europa. Il confronto in particolare e’ facilitato dall’analisi ravvicinata di un lavoro di Vincent Minnelli e uno del regista tedesco Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
La lettura dell’opera di Chabrol ‘Les Biches’ si pone in quest’ottica come problematica pietra di paragone. Il saggio che vi e’ qui dedicato infatti non ne affronta semplicemente l’emblematicita’, ma la spinge ad un momento di rottura, il momento cioe’ in cui il rapporto erotico come rapporto di possesso sfigura di fronte alla propria promessa.
A concludere il lavoro, l’intervista a Juliane Lorenz, montatrice degli ultimi film di Fassbinder – nonche’ ex-moglie e presidentessa della fondazione intitolata al regista Tedesco – offre alcuni spunti inediti circa lavori non ultimati e ambizioni insoddisfatte del grande autore capace in poco piu’ che quindici anni di carriera di produrre una quarantina di films.
Lo spezzone di sceneggiatura allegato in chiusura – tratto da un lavoro in corso di Daniele Rugo – oltre che come tributo a RWF, intende riaprire idealmente le questioni trattate verso le possibilita’ attuali del melodrammatico.

Damascus 2008: three people suddenly disappear. Zaat al-Abed, a presumed secret agent, Leena Kilk... more Damascus 2008: three people suddenly disappear. Zaat al-Abed, a presumed secret agent, Leena Kilkka, curator of the Damascus Biennial, an event that never happens , and a flâneur, whose diary is accidentally lost and found.
Damascus: Tourists, Artists, Secret Agents is a pseudo-fictitious encounter of artists, dancers, secret agents, speculative writers, lovers, film-makers and photographers who come together to unravel the rumors, questions and traces of the mysterious disappearances that happen in the subconscious urban setting of one of the world's oldest cities.
The idiosyncratic novel is the outcome of a Reloading Images collaboration and an ongoing platform for artistic research, involving more than thirty international artists and writers. 'Reloading Images: Damascus / Work in Progress 2008' is a playground for discursive practices on artistic agency that happened in relation to Damascus, the actual city, and that of our imagination.
Edited by Kaya Behkalam, Paula Bugni, Beatrice Catanzaro, Roberto Cavallini, Azin Feizabadi, Carla Esperanza Tommasini, Sarah Rifky, Ashkan Sepahvand / Reloading Images
With contributions by Salina Abaza, Jan Ackenhausen, Woroud Ahdali, Isa Andreu, Kaya Behkalam, Omar Berakdar, Paula Bugni, Beatrice Catanzaro, Roberto Cavallini, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Azin Feizabadi, Soudade Kaadan, Sophia Krey-Kolios, Gabriel Martinez, Gabriella Micale, Sanna Miericke, Raqs Media Collective, Rania Mleihi, Ersan Ocak, Juergen Rendl, Sarah Rifky, Adel Samara, Manuela Scebba, Ashkan Sepahvand, Carla Esperanza Tommasini, Hanadi Traifeh, Kianoosh Vahabi and Wu Ming 4

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Connections 5: conference proceedings

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in Aurora Fonda (ed.), Borders: ricerca multimediale sui confini oggi, A+A Gallery, Venice: Patagonia Art, 2005., 2005

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in AA. VV., 50esima Biennale of Visual Art Revisited, edited by Stefano Cagol and Francesca Cancellier, Mazzanti Editori: Venezia, 2004., 2004

SCENARI_Il settimanale di approfondimento di Mimesis Edizioni, Dec 11, 2015

SCENARI_Il settimanale di approfondimento di Mimesis Edizioni, Jul 10, 2015

Un'analisi del film-saggio 'Concerning Violence' (2014) di Göran Hugo Olsson, a partire dal pensi... more Un'analisi del film-saggio 'Concerning Violence' (2014) di Göran Hugo Olsson, a partire dal pensiero post-coloniale di Frantz Fanon su cui il film si basa, riattualizzandone la prospettiva critica.

SCENARI _ Il settimanale di approfondimento culturale di Mimesis, Jun 5, 2015

SICILIA QUEER 2014 International lgbt & new visions filmfest - Catalogue 2014, 2014

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'Arte al bivio: Venezia negli Anni Sessanta', 2010

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Mubi Garage, Mar 11, 2011

This interview with Juliane Lorenz was conducted by Daniele Rugo and Roberto Cavallini and is als... more This interview with Juliane Lorenz was conducted by Daniele Rugo and Roberto Cavallini and is also part of the book, "Sentimental". Note sul serio melodrammatico, Cavallini & Rugo, Abeditore, Milan, 2010.

Juliane Lorenz is the director of the Fassbinder Foundation, an organization that seeks to preserve and promote the filmmaker's legacy. She has authored and edited several books on the director's life and work, and has directed a documentary on the same subject.

She has worked as an editor on several of Fassbinder’s pictures, including: Querelle (1982) Veronika Voss (1982), Lola (1981), Lili Marleen (1981), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), Die dritte Generation (1979), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), In a Year with 13 Moons (1978), Despair (1978), Germany in Autumn (1978), Bolwieser (1977).

Lida Abdul was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. At the beginning of the Eighties she was forced to lea... more Lida Abdul was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. At the beginning of the Eighties she was forced to leave Kabul and her country and she moved to Germany and India as a refugee before going to the U.S.. Going back to Kabul, after a long period, she pitted herself against the city and the people disfigured by more than twenty years of invasions, war and dictatorship. Abdul‘s work is located at the intersection between art and architecture; it invites the viewer to see the unfolding of new forms but never resolves the contradictions and the paradoxes, the purpose of which seems to be to make us doubt our claims of understanding.

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This paper investigates Pier Paolo Pasolini’s so called notebook film Appunti per un' Orestiade A... more This paper investigates Pier Paolo Pasolini’s so called notebook film Appunti per un' Orestiade Africana (1970), arguing how the Italian poet and director, adopting an aesthetics of contamination, ventures into the essay film reframing the documentary image as research tool. These Appunti, conceived as work-in-progress for feature films, share Pasolini’s attempt at reading and confronting reality through a fictional impulse: an Indian legend and the trilogy of Greek tragedies Oresteia, respectively. Situating Pasolini’s films in the context of his ‘authorial intertext’ (Viano 1993) and his 'spectro-poetics' (Ricciardi, 2003), I argue how Pasolini’s lesson configures a fascination with what I would call the 'temporalities of the real', that is his attempt at deconstructing the relationship between past and present. Making use of Bernard Stiegler’s reflections on technics and time and his notion of tertiary memory along with Jacques Derrida’s notion of critical inheritance, I will consider Pasolini’s attempt at engaging with the problem of tradition and cultural transmission, employing the essay film as a documentary research tool, a transient archive that temporalizes our being in the world.

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In Orhan Pamuk’s novel ‘The Museum of Innocence’, Kemal, the protagonist, while accurately recoun... more In Orhan Pamuk’s novel ‘The Museum of Innocence’, Kemal, the protagonist, while accurately recounting his love story with Füsun, engages with an obsessive act of collecting numerous artefacts of his life with her. The novel is
now a museum, which is housed in a building in the Çukurcuma neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, with the 83 chapters transformed into 83 boxes. In this essay I would like to explore the ways in which the gendered objectification of Füsun is enacted in the museum. Füsun is indeed a spectral figure within the museum’s walls: her figure is condensed in every single thing the viewer
encounters yet her absence is signified through the fetishism of objects which in turn are transformed into works of art (Box 68, 4213 Cigarette Stubs, which contains all the cigarette stubs discarded by Füsun and collected by
Kemal between 1976 and 1984, is a telling example in this sense). Pamuk’s achievement, from a Foucauldian perspective, questions the role of museums
as contested sites of knowledge, articulated through the construction of subjectivity and history. However, museums are also gendered spaces of representation and classification. In this sense, various questions should be posited: how is memory performed in the Museum of Innocence? How is the gendering and aestheticization of objects, imposed by Füsun’s spectral absence, played out in this invented and autobiographical wunderkammer of
love? This essay is divided in three parts. In the first part my aim is to consider the Museum of Innocence as a contemporary wunderkammer, briefly retracing
the origin of this tradition until more recent critical examples such as Joseph Cornell’s sculpture boxes, Sophie Calle’s and Mark Dion’s installations until Damien Hirst’s cabinets like ‘The Void’ (2007), which are usually framed
under the caption of the ethnographic turn in contemporary art. The second part will focus on the gendering of space within the Museum of Innocence through the spectral figure of Füsun. My claim is that Füsun’s objectification could be interpreted through Luce Irigaray’s notion of the feminine as an inscriptional space, that is as a mere mirroring of masculinity. The third part of the essay will consider how Pamuk’s artistic endeavour could exemplify an act of secondary memory (Nora) or prosthetic memory (Lindsberg), an interruption of modernity inscribed between the materiality of common things and the traces of personal memories. Through these notions, I will propose a shift in signification from the figure of Füsun to the city of Istanbul, a distant and forgotten image of the city in Pamuk’s personal memories.

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In his famous lecture given at the French Society of Philosophy on 27 May 1978 titled 'What is cr... more In his famous lecture given at the French Society of Philosophy on 27 May 1978 titled 'What is critique?', Michel Foucault explores the dogma and institutions of government in contrast to a notion of critique as the art of not being governed quite so much or not being governed like that. The refusal of not being governed as such price has been a constant preoccupation in the practice of self-organization developed and employed by Autonomia, the autonomous network movement of social self-organization that was prevalent in Italy in the 1970s. This paper will address the short-circuit between Foucault’ s notion of critique and Autonomia’s practice of self-organization in the context of recent creative practices of resistance in Italy today.
After a brief examination of the seminal experiences since the 1970s such as Radio Alice (1976-78) and Luther Blissett (1994-1999), I will focus on the recent radical process initiated by a group of ‘creative workers’ with the occupation of Teatro Valle, one of the most prestigious and ancient theatres in Rome, and inspired by the Occupy movement. Since June 2011, throughout Italy, different other occupations occurred (theatres, movie theatres, dismissed factories) to protest against the inefficiency and decline of cultural policies and to actively generate an open platform for educational, cultural and social purposes. These experiences share a similar strategy of self-organization with the previous movements but differ in the ways in which they generate a critical understanding of the conditions of creative production and its distribution.

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InC, Continental Philosophy research group, hosted a programme of three weekend seminars, each fo... more InC, Continental Philosophy research group, hosted a programme of three weekend seminars, each followed by public talks by leading philosophers including Dr Alberto Toscano and Prof. Alexander Garcia Duttmann. These events - conveyed by R.Cavallini, D.Rugo, S.McAuliffe and D.Smith - will address the future of pedagogy and question whether teaching can still serve as a site for critical thinking. The seminars will function as focused events built around a set reading list, with the subsequent talks intended for a larger audience.

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"In response to the plans by Middlesex University to close down its philosophy department, this e... more "In response to the plans by Middlesex University to close down its philosophy department, this event seeked to provide a forum to discuss the current conditions under which philosophical research is supported and engaged with; what role does philosophy play in contemporary society, and how should this be appropriately nourished?

Within the context of priority shifts and general cuts to higher education funding, the discussion will use the immediate conditions at Middlesex to consider a broader threat to critical thought, lending a voice to the current debates and protests undertaken by students and tutors at the Middlesex campus.

The panel will be chaired by Dr Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths) with interventions by Prof Alexander Garcia Duttmann (Goldsmiths), Prof Peter Osborne (Middlesex), Dr Nina Power (Roehampton University), Prof Alex Callinicos (Kings College), Ali Alizadeh (Middlesex) and others."

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Screening Series: On Revolution Friday 15th January, 5.00-8.00 RHB 137 Screening of La rabbia (Th... more Screening Series: On Revolution
Friday 15th January, 5.00-8.00 RHB 137
Screening of La rabbia (The anger) (1963) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, followed by a
conversation between Alberto Toscano, Roberto Cavallini and Paolo Gerbaudo.

Friday 22nd January, 5.00-8.00 RHB 137
Screening of Die Dritte Generation (The third generation) 1979, by RW Fassbinder.
Followed by a conversation between Alex Duttmann and Tom McCarthy.

Friday 29th January, 5.00-8.00 RHB 137
Screening of Ici et allieurs (Here and Elsewhere) (1976), by Jean-Luc Godard and
Anne-Marie Miéville, followed by a conversation between Roberto Cavallini, Saeed
Taji Farouky and Sam Mcauliffe.

Friday 5th of February, 5.00-8.00 RHB 137
Screening of Coup pour coup (1972) by Marin Karmitz, followed by a discussion
between Alberto Toscano and special guests.

Friday 12th of February, 5.00-8.00 RHB 137
Screening of Queimada (1969) by Gillo Pontercorvo, followed by a conversation
between Alberto Toscano, Peter Hallward and Benjamin Noys about the film, Fanon and
the Haitian revolution.

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2018