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2016 Programme

Event #38

Paolo Rumiz, Alessandro Scillitani

The voice of the road. Words, sounds and images gathered along via Appia

A travel story is like a musical score, where the beginning is the Ouverture . An acoustic event, designed for the ear and the voice, that carves vagabond words into the groove of the vinyl with the needle of voice. Paolo Rumiz tells of the wonderful and terrible, terrestrial and visionary adventure – through marvels and destruction – that unfolds along the oldest of European roads. Alessandro Scillitani describes its spaces through visual and audio productions accompanied live by the tracks he composed along his voyage (Tommi Prodi, guitar, Stefano Ferrari, violin and bass, Marco Macchi, piano, Mimmo Fontana, drums). The itinerary is completed by wuotes from famous travelers, readings from the book Appia by Paolo Rumiz and an original score by Alfredo Lacosegliaz.

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Paolo Rumiz

is a writer, traveller and journalist from Trieste. For years he has written for la Repubblica and Il Piccolo . He has published a number of books with Feltrinelli including Annibale (2008), La cotogna di Istanbul (2010), Il bene ostinato (2011), Maschere per un massacro (2011), A piedi (2012), Trans Europa Express (2012), Morimondo (2013), Come cavalli che dormono in piedi (2014), Il Ciclope (2015), Appia (with R. Carnovalini, 2016).

Alessandro Scillitani

has directed documentaries and written their scores. He has collaborated with Paolo Rumiz on Il risveglio del fiume segreto (Tico Film, 2012), presentated at the 69th Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, L’Albero tra le Trincee (Artemide Film, 2013) and Il cammino dell’Appia Antica (Artemide Film, 2015). Many of his works have been distributed with great success by la Repubblica.

2016 Programme

Event #38

Paolo Rumiz, Alessandro Scillitani

The voice of the road. Words, sounds and images gathered along via Appia

An idea of public space

That place called “home”

The space of words: Helen and Odysseus

The last day of summer

The birth of space (and time)

The birth of space (and time)

The space of war. The First Italian War of Independence

Immunity and the brain: a dialogue between two chief systems. From memory to vaccines.

New males: as teenagers, in couples, as fathers

Tv series: a newly emerged continent

Across the American deserts: a voyage through 20th century collective imagination

What do algorithms think of?

That place is gone

The space of rebellion

Other maps, other worlds. Representations of space

The analyst at the movies: thinking by images

From the stars to Life: one, one hundred, one thousand Earths

Architectural space in the past, the present, the future

Families confined and without borders

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

The space of absence: Patroclus and Andromache

On the other side of the sea

Play it again

The space of war. The second Italian War of Independence

School is an idea of the world

Asperger Talk Show

Let’s make space for stupidity

Voyages through spaces real and imagined

Is there space for us all? The future of European migrations

When painters left their studios to paint en plein air

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

Graffiti, tags and murals: when art extends to walls

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

The river is never wrong

Mirror neurons: anatomy of a revolutionary discovery

The boundaries of the soul and of the world