For the From DiVision to vision showcase, screening of Alice by Jan Svankmajer.

The second of the two showcases planned by the university students who won the “Young programmers for young spectators 2016” Call by the Cinema Museum, is ongoing. The From DiVisions to visions 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 film for this week is Alice by Jan Svankmajer. Admission 4.00 euro.

Jan Svankmajer

Alice (Neko z Alenky)

(Czechoslovakia /Switzerland 1988, 86’, Hd, col., o.v. it. s/t)

A surrealist 1988 Czechoslovakian film, revisiting the classic tales by Lewis Carrol with an original style, distancing itself from the bizarre nuances of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass, and depicting a darker and more desolate picture of the worlds and characters conceived by Carrol. Unreleased in Italy for a long time.