A journey-based series of events, including performances, conferences, photo exhibits and movie screenings on the voyage. Destination: Italian Culture. Find out more and join us on a fascinating trip.
An Inspiring Voyage
A journey-based series of events, including performances, conferences, photo exhibits and movie screenings on the voyage. Destination: Italian Culture. Find out more and join us on a fascinating trip.
art
cinema
literature
photography
ITER – Renato D’Agostin Photography
Iter includes images from all over the world, focusing on the city, the one we all want to escape from, but which sticks to us like an – occasionally painful – shell.
In Renato D’Agostin’s photographs location immediately looses its identity. He opens a window on a reality where shapes, appearances, evocations, and surges of emotion emerge from the image.
DATE: OPENING SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
ON VIEW: SEPTEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 18, 2014
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Marco Paoli Photography
In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia.
The works take as raw material the artist’s travel experiences around the world. Travel and place, however, are not to be taken literally.
They are metaphors for an artistic exploration around the concepts of silence, memory, emotion and inner journey.
DATE: OPENING MAY 28, 2014
ON VIEW: MAY 29 – SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
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Unanswered Prayers – A Journey Through New Worlds in Wonder
Unanswered Prayers is a photo exhibit by Anna Paola Pizzocaro, a New York-based artist. The fine art photography images of this series invite the viewer into a world between dream and reality. Oceanic images combined with wildlife and human figures in urban settings become one, and viewers start wondering if what they see could possibly be an alternative to reality.
DATE: OPENING MARCH 20, 2014
ON VIEW: MARCH 21 – MAY 22, 2014
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Salvatore Scarpitta Traveler
A fascinating and singular figure in postwar art, Salvatore Scarpitta (1919–2007) created a powerful body of work that ranges from non-objective abstraction to radical realism.
Featuring key recent additions to the Hirshhorn’s collection, this will be the first solo presentation of Scarpitta’s work at an American museum in over a decade, and the first ever on the East Coast.
DATE: JULY 17, 2014 – JANUARY 11, 2015
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A Vintage Tour of Italy
This exhibit details the history of Italy’s travel posters from the beginning of the 1900’s to its peak in the 1960’s, which could be considered the golden age of poster art.
The graphics, the typography, the illustrations evolve and bear witness to the different decades, historical periods and political scenarios.
DATE: MAY 10 – JUNE 2, 2014
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The International Cinema Series @ American University
Viaggio in Italia (1954)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle’s villa. There’s a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; although she didn’t love him, the memory underscores romance’s absence from her life now. She tours the museums of Naples and Pompeii, immersing herself in the Neapolitan fascination with the dead and noticing how many women are pregnant; he idles on Capri, flirting with women but drawing back from adultery. With her, he’s sarcastic; with him, she’s critical.
DATE: SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 @ 7PM
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The International Cinema Series @ American University
Il Sorpasso (1962)
Director: Dino Risi
Starring Vittorio Gassman and Catherine Spaak
An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student for a two-day ride through the Roman and Tuscany countries. It is considered Risi’s masterpiece and one of the most famous examples of Commedia all’italiana film genre.
DATE: SEPTEMBER 28, 2014 @ 4:30PM
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The International Cinema Series @ American University
CONTEMPORARY FILM DOUBLE FEATURE
La Mia Classe (2013)
Director: Daniele Gaglianone
The ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in which director Daniele Gaglianone renders his story.
Tir (2013)
Director: Alberto Fasulo
Branko has been a truck driver for only a few months, a choice that is quite understandable, given that he now earns three times as much as he did as a schoolteacher. But everything has a price, which is not always quantifiable in terms of money. As children we were told: “work ennobles man”. But here the opposite seems true: it is Branko, with his efficiency, his obstinacy, his good will, who ennobles a job that grows more and more alienating, absurd and enslaving.
DATE: OCTOBER 5, 2014 @ 4:30PM
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A Journey on the Screen @ Embassy of Italy
A voyage in the cinematography of the great Italian movie masters.
In June and July the Italian Cultural Institute will present a series of movies.
JUNE 5, 2014: Professione: Reporter (The Passenger)
Antonioni’s frenzied psychological drama highlighting one of Jack
Nicholson’s best interpretations of a a reporter on the run.
JUNE 26, 2014: BAARÌA
Tornatore analyzes the microcosm of a small Sicilian village as if it were a “time machine
“.
JULY 8, 2014: ore Diciotto in punto (At Precisely Six o’Clock)
A dusty office outside of time manages the files of human beings’ lives. At precisely 6PM a chain of events unsettles many lives.
JULY 24, 2014: Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips)
Soldini’s bittersweet comedy tells the story of a frustrated housewife who escapes from her
boring and dry life to find true love.
AUGUST 5, 2014: Basilicata Coast to Coast
A group of musicians walk across Basilicata from the Tyrhennian to the Ionian Sea, their destination is the festival at Scanzano Jonico.
AUGUST 26, 2014: Non ci resta che piangere (Nothing Left to Do But Cry)
Troisi and Benigni star in a parody of traveling backward in time to Renaissance Italy.
Other fascinating journeys on the screen will follow.
EuroAsia Shorts 2014
EuroAsia Shorts proudly presents an annual week of short films from Europe, Asia, and the United States screened at embassies and cultural centers throughout Washington D.C.
The theme for EAS 2014 is Travel and Journeys. From day to day, youth to adulthood, or home to abroad, we are all constantly on our own journeys. Sometimes they are planned, other times we are swept along by a beautiful, powerful, or terrible current. Wherever our travels in life take us, we are inevitably transformed in the process.
DATE: JUNE 2 – JUNE 6, 2014
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The Voyage: a Journey into the Fantastic World of Fiction and Film
In collaboration with the Georgetown Italian Research Institute. This is a conference and discussion, , on the theme of “The Voyage” interpreted as the journey into the world of the imagination guided by the exceptional craft of the writer and the cinematographer.
The conference features the 2010 Nobel Prize laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa, the Italian novelist, Alessandro Baricco, and the cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, Oscar winner for “APOCALYPSE NOW,” “REDS,” and “THE LAST EMPEROR.”
DATE: MAY 30, 2014
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Galileo turns 450
On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the birth of Galileo Galilei, the Italian Embassy in Washington and the Georgetown University Italian Research Institute are organizing an event focused on the theme of innovation and scientific research, during the semester of the Italian Presidency of the European Union.
The initiative is based on a series of lectures by prominent scholars and scientists and will include an exhibit and a play.
DATE: OCTOBER 9 – DECEMBER 12, 2014
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EU Open House: A Journey to Italy
From Amerigo Vespucci to space exploration, learn how Italians “discovered” the world. Admire art exhibits, be captivated by Italy and Made in Italy cars and design. Take a Journey to Italy on Stilts with Musetta’s Valzer to the tunes of Puccini’s La Bohème and Verdi’s La Traviata. Enjoy great food, play games and much more.
DATE: MAY 10, 2014
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Walking Stories – Building Territories using different narrative platforms
Mr. Stroppini will present some of his most successful projects, including the outstanding Il Viaggio di Arnold, which describes the journey that brought Stroppini from a little village called Andermatt in Switzerland to the little Greek Island of Iraklia. The journey retraces the path that a mysterious man, Arnol Hünsperger, took in 1974. Stroppini will also introduce one of his new projects, S14, which brings together four Swiss authors coming from the four different linguistic regions of the country.
DATE: OCTOBER 22, 2014
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The Voyage: a Journey into the Fantastic World of Fiction and Film
In collaboration with the Georgetown Italian Research Institute. This is a conference and discussion, , on the theme of “The Voyage” interpreted as the journey into the world of the imagination guided by the exceptional craft of the writer and the cinematographer.
The conference features the 2010 Nobel Prize laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa, the Italian novelist, Alessandro Baricco, and the cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, Oscar winner for “APOCALYPSE NOW,” “REDS,” and “THE LAST EMPEROR.”
DATE: MAY 30, 2014
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