"Short Films from the Italian Underground
(1967-72)"

A program presented by noted film scholar and curator
Bruno di Marino

Sunday, November 20
4:00 p.m.
UW Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall
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Bruno di Marino will also offer the following events
(in Italian):

Lecture: “Il cinema underground in Italia”
Friday, November 18
4:00 p.m.
104 Van Hise Hall
This lecture will be followed by a screening of a documentary written and narrated by Bruno di Marino:
Tecniche miste: Il cinema underground a Roma 1965-1975
(56 minutes; in Italian without sub-titles)

Lecture: “Il cinema sperimentale di Paolo Gioli”
Monday, November 21
5:00 p.m.
114 Van Hise Hall

Sponsors:
The Center for European Studies
and
The Department of French and Italian

Bruno Di Marino is an essayist, researcher in cinema and video (particularly interested in non-fiction and experimental film and video), documentary filmmaker, teacher, organiser of exhibitions and retrospectives, and director of festivals. In 1993 he founded, and until 2001 directed, the audiovisual archives of the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza.’ Since 2001 he has been consultant for the RaroVideo label.

His books include: L’ultimo fotogramma. I finali del cinema (Editori Riuniti, 2001) and Interferenze dello sguardo. La sperimentazione audiovisiva tra analogico e digitale (Bulzoni, 2002).

He is the author of the only book-length study of Italian experimental film, Sguardo, inconscio, azione: Il cinema sperimentale e underground a Roma (Lithos, 1999).