Ugetsu monogatari is opening “From DiVisions to visions”, the second of the showcases by the students who won the Young programmers for young spectators 2016 Call.

The second of the two showcases planned by the university students selected among those taking part in the “Young programmers for young spectators 2016”Call by the Cinema Museum is beginning in September. The From DiVisions to visions idea, conceived by the Fantasmagoria group, springs from the thought of cinema as a vision of what’s invisible, a re-proposal of what is not there any more, an evocation of phantoms from a past that is crystallized in its artificial life. The levels of insight into cinematographic research are twofold: a vision as a “physical” apparition (cinema itself with its apparatus) and a vision as a “mental” apparition, that is, as the creation of a image, of a phantom which interacts with the characters, ruling lives and bursting forth into what’s visible. Moreover, the issue of vision is closely linked to the issue of a double: indeed, the apparition of a vision marks the creation, on the part of a character, of an alter-ego to measure up to, of a “division” between desires and individuality. Furthermore, when a vision happens during narration, the distinction between reality and imagination immediately weakens. In this division between reality and vision, cinematographic art is configured, a vision in itself, a division in itself, a break with the real world. The film will be presented by Dario Tomasi. Admission 4.00 euro.

Kenji Mizoguchi

Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Ugetsu)

(Japan 1954, 94’, Hd, b/w, o.v. it. s/t)

In 16th century Japan, a peasant and a potter go to town in search of glory. The former’s ambition is to become a heroic samurai in the war involving the imperial armies, the latter is seduced by an evil and lovely princess. In the end they will be overwhelmed by the tragic meeting with fate. A fluctuating film, like the spectres that haunt it.