A two-day seminar on the representation and visual function of the images of ancient Rome in silent cinema
Data:
Luogo: DAMSLab/Saletta Seminari (Piazzetta P.P. Pasolini, 5b - Bologna)
Organized by: Ivo Blom, Paolo Noto, Maria Wyke
In collaboration: AHRC-funded project Museum of Dreams: Silent Antiquity Films in the BFI National Archive (2023-26)
With: Aylin Atacan, Stella Dagna, Maria Assunta Pimpinelli
This two-day seminar is organized within the AHRC-funded project Museum of Dreams: Silent Antiquity Films in the BFI National Archive (2023-26), that seeks to establish a better understanding of both the modern reception of classical antiquity and the transnational history of silent cinema.
It investigates how, thanks to cinema, classical antiquity was rendered a powerfully immersive democratic dreamworld while, thanks to classical antiquity, cinema laid claim to the status of an educative art - a 'museum of dreams'. The project will produce a systematic analysis of the 70+ silent film prints in the British National Film Archive (BFI) that engage with ancient Greece and Rome.
Workshop 1 Tuesday June 25 17:00-19:00
"Reconstructing Ancient Rome"
Aylin Atacan (University College London)
Stella Dagna (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Workshop 2 Wednesday 26 June 17:00-19:00
"Situating Ancient Rome in the Modern City"
Maria Assunta Pimpinelli (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome)
Maria Wyke (University College London)
