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Buongiorno Blinky: Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa - Palermo, Sicily

BUONGIORNO BLINKY Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo 2-10 febbraio 2013 Apertura: sabato 2 febbraio, alle 18.30 Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa – via Paolo Gili, 4 Nato da una proposta di Emmanuel Van der Meulen, il progetto  degli artisti residenti a Villa Medici "Buongiorno Blinky" è organizzato dall’Institut français di Palermo insieme con l’Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici e il Comune della città di Palermo. Philippe Adam Katinka Bock Bérangère Chargé Clément Cogitore Fanette Mellier Laurent Montaron Camila Oliveira Fairclough Manon Recordon Olivier Vadrot Emmanuel Van der Meulen "Buongiorno Blinky" nasce dall’incontro tra alcuni borsisti di Villa Medici e la città di Palermo. Grazie all’aiuto dell’Institut français di Palermo, infatti, essi hanno potuto scoprire un luogo particolare: i Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, individuandone la geografia fluttuante, le intercapedini, le frontiere e intervenendo artis

Sicily Through the Eyes and Heart of Emanuele Crialese

Emanuele Crialese  Emanuele Crialese is one of the most inventive and poetic filmmakers working today. The messages in his films speak to the dreams and desires within the soul, and their breathtaking cinematography reveals the  pride he feels for a land to which he is deeply connected. Born in Rome in 1965, Emanuele Crialese’s Sicilian roots are the driving force to the plots of his movies. Crialese earned his degree at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.  He originally set out to take a short film course at the university but was granted a full scholarship after presenting a sample of his work. Much of Crialese’s career has been dedicated to exploring the plight of the immigrant, and the irony of this lies within the fact that while in New York City attending film school, he lived in a Lower East Side tenement, which was once occupied by immigrants during the immigration wave of the 20th century. One has to wonder if that experience has had any influence on