The screenings of The Last Temptation of Christ and Mulholland Drive are ending the From DiVision to vision showcase.

The showcase planned by the university students who won the “Young programmers for young spectators 2016” Call by the Cinema Museum, is ending. The From DiVision to vision idea, conceived by the Fantasmagoria group, springs from a reflection on 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 last two screenings are going to be on Tuesday 5 December at 9.00 p.m. with The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese, presented to the public by Silvio Alovisio and then, on Monday 18 December always at 9.00 p.m., with Mulholland Drive by David Lynch. Admission 4.00 euro.

Martin Scorsese

The Last Temptation of Christr

(Usa 1988, 159’, Hd, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Jesus of Nazareth, a young Jewish carpenter, makes crosses on commission for the Roman invaders and is considered a despicable turncoat by his people. He suffers from nightmares and finds himself struggling against a mysterious voice that makes him believe and doubt he is the son of God at the same time, so that he suffers from fits bordering on epileptic attacks. On recovering from one of those fits, he feels to need to confide in Magdalene, a public sinner, almost as if to be forgiven for the ignoble services he offers the Romans. However he does not succumb to the wiles with which he is tempted by the woman and retreats into the desert, then he begins to preach, with threatening cries and brandishing a bloody heart which he has wrenched from his breast…

David Lynch

Mulholland Drive

(Usa/France 2001, 146’, Hd, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Following a car accident which took place on Mulholland Drive in Hollywood, Rita loses her memory. Betty Elms, an actress who has just arrived from Australia in search of glory, tries to help her in retrieving her memory and identity…