Saturday 5 June at 5 p.m. meeting with director Massimo D’Anolfi. The initiative is sponsored by Emergency

A new appointment at the Cinéma Sala Pegasus with “Visioni d’Autore“. On Saturday 5th June at 5 p.m., on the occasion of the screening of the film Guerra e pace, from Lev Tolstoj’s Война и мир (War & Peace), there will be a meeting with the director Massimo D’Anolfi.

The initiative is organised under the patronage of Emergency (volunteers will be present with an information stand) and the City of Spoleto.

Guerra e Pace, a film in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, tells the story of the century-old relationship between cinema and war, from their first encounter, back in 1911, during the Italian invasion of Libya, to the present day. From the sequences filmed by the pioneers of cinema, to today’s footage shot on smartphones by citizens of the world, the step seems very short and the relationship between cinema and war very solid. Guerra e pace is a reflection on images and, like a great novel divided into four chapters – the remote past, the near past, the present and the future -, it attempt to bring together the fragments of visual memory from the early 20th century to the present day, staging the multiplication of visions which, like a constant background noise, accompany our current lives. Four important European institutions host the narration of our film and constitute its solid spatiotemporal scaffolding. A framework in which peace and war seem to coexist and keep each other at bay. War and Peace questions the consequences of war, the meaning of history and the preservation of memory for the benefit of future generations.

DIRECTORS’ COMMENTARY
The first intuition for Guerra e pace came one day in front of an Italian embassy in a foreign capital. We asked ourselves what function and value these privileged palaces could still have and, more generally, what was the meaning of diplomatic activity in a world where communication and news travel at a speed beyond all control. We believe that today, more than ever, it is necessary to rethink the instruments that prevent, limit and contain conflicts in favour of dialogue between people and institutions. From its very beginnings, cinema has shown us that it has had a very strong link with war more than with peace, both because of the spirit that ran through the first half of the last century and because of the intrinsic need to document historical events and the real difficulty of filming a peace process. We have therefore decided to reflect on the images of the past and present not only as an instrument of war, but also as a possible instrument of peace.

VISIONI D’AUTORE
Cinéma Sala Pegasus, in collaboration with the Culture Dept. of the City of Spoleto and Maia Associazione Culturale, organises a series of meetings with Italian directors for the presentation of mainly first and second works, with the aim of giving voice to the best of contemporary cinematography.
The festival benefits from the fundamental contribution of Graziella Bildesheim‘s Maia Associazione Culturale, a professional who works in the cinema field at an international level.
Most of the encounters are coordinated by Roberto Lazzerini, trainer and cinema expert, whose collaboration proves invaluable in positioning the dialogue with the public.