Italia, le feu, la cendre

Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in conjunction with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily programme of film screenings after which the public can meet and talk with directors, choreographers, filmmakers, researchers and critics invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships that these speakers maintain between disciplines and the world. It's a space where we can take a closer look, from the small to the large, at the themes that are brought to life on stage, on screen and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

Italia, le feu, la cendre

By Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler // Italia - France // 1h34 // In French

This documentary traces the birth of the seventh art in a barely unified Italy. The film's protagonists are the directors, actors and actresses, technicians and intellectuals of the time, in other words those who created or were spectators of these images at the beginning of the last century.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Céline Gailleurd, director and lecturer at the University of Paris 8, Olivier Bohler, director and producer, and Patrick Boucheron, professor at the Collège de France.
Moderated by Catherine Courtet from the Agence nationale de la Recherche.