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n[ever]land
:: digital paths
year 2007 – fifth edition
Casa del Cinema in Rome, March 16th -18th
Free admission
From the 16th to the 18th of March 2007, the fifth edition of n[ever]land – digital
paths will take place in Casa del Cinema in Rome. This event – created and directed by
Enzo Aronica and produced by Associazione Trio Alma Mahler with the kind support of
IMAIE (the Institute for the Protection of Artists and Performers) – explores the
implementation of digital technology in art and communication. This project, characterized
by contamination and experimentation, tackles topical Italian and international trends and
looks into the future developments (and into the contradictions) of a technology whose
potential elaboration is infinite. As it was in all past editions, admittance will again be
absolutely free.
N[ever]land is a very successful event which has turned into a habitual Roman meeting
point for experts in this field, journalists, filmmakers, students and fans from all over the
world – and it has moved from its original location in the Sala Multimediale (Multimedia
Room) of Palazzo delle Esposizioni, to the MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Museum
of Contemporary Art) in Rome, and it has finally reached its present location in the Casa
del Cinema (House of Cinema) in Villa Borghese. Various institutions have showed
sensitivity and much interest in this event from the very beginning. As it has happened in
all previous edition, the 2007 edition will be sponsored again by Comune di Roma Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali (Department of Cultural Policies), and by various
Ministries, by three Universities of Rome (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”,
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Università degli Studi di Roma “Roma Tre”)
and by several Embassies, foreign academies and international cultural institutes.
Having hosted important previews – like the preview of Bubble by Steven Soderbergh – as
well as international events, workshops, screenings, projects and exotica from the world of
digital art, this year n[ever]land presents a extensive programme, a branched and
absolutely unpredictable path, where modern visual arts and the most ancient performing
arts criss-cross, as well as traditional publishing and on line communication, arranged in
the usual structure with four main theme areas into which the event is divided: DIGITAL
SCREENS (the new frontiers of storytelling through images); DIGITAL CLASSROOMS
(technologies as an aid to teaching and learning); DIGITAL ARCHIVES (a new way to
preserve and enjoy large and small cultural patrimonies); DIGITAL STAGES (new
technologies merging with performing arts).
This fifth edition of n[ever]land will host, as Special Guests, Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio
Sodano, 2007 Academy Awards nominees for Best Make-up for Apocalypto, Mel Gibson’s
kolossal on the decline of the Maya civilization. The two Italian make-up artists will fly to
the Casa del Cinema from Hollywood after the night of the prestigious Oscars – and after
having spent months researching on the ancient inhabitants of Yucatan, visiting those
lands, as well as museums and libraries and creating a most accurate reproduction of
Maya’s physiognomies, along with their tattoos, hairstyles, physical deformities and body
piercing.
During their visit to n[ever]land they will disclose the secrets of their art, showing a
workbench to the audience, with torsos, make-up products and materials which they have
used for Apocalypto: the instruments of their craft which have taken them from Gibson’s
set to Hollywood’s Kodak Theater, “going from Italy’s pictorial tradition – as Vittorio
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Sodano has explained – to then incorporate all possible innovations”. Signoretti and
Sodano were the only Italian nominees at the 79th edition of the Academy Awards along
with Honorary Oscar winner Ennio Morricone and nominee for Best Costume Design Milena
Canonero for Marie Antoinette.
The International Protagonist of this edition will be Abel Ferrara: the prolific New
York-based director of Bad Lieutenant, The Funeral and recently of Mary, will speak of his
latest film Go Go Tales at n[ever]land. This film was shot in Cinecittà Studios, and tells
the intertwined stories of the customers of a lap dance bar in New York. It features Willem
Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Modine, and also Italian actors such as Asia Argento,
Riccardo Scamarcio, Valeria Golino and Stefania Rocca.
As an exclusive Italian premiere, Casa del Cinema will present the world’s most
prestigious event dedicated to digital images, computer graphics and interactive
techniques: directly from Boston (where it has taken place last summer from July 30th to
August 3rd ) SIGGRAPH 2006 @ NEVERLAND, an international performance of Images
from the world by ACM SIGGRAPH - Milan Professional Chapter, with an introduction by
Maria Grazia Mattei - MGM Digital Communication (www.mgmdigital.com –
www.siggraph.org). A selection from Electronic Theater will be presented at n[ever]land
featuring international screenings and debates, to compare international creativity and
Italian digital products, providing a great opportunity for entertainment, updating and
cross fertilization.
Another Italian exclusive presentation is The best of Ars Electronica 2006, the most
prestigious international festival of electronic art, which for over 25 years has been
gathering researchers, creative minds and scientists from all over the world in Linz
(Austria) in an interdisciplinary platform dedicated to anybody who uses computers as a
universal means at the service of creativity.
To make the 2007 programme even more complete with an international overview of the
most recent projects, some works from the latest edition of Clermont-Ferrand
International Festival of Short Films will be presented. Director Calmin Borel will bring
a selection of the best short films of the digital area “Labo 2007” to Rome. In collaboration
with Stefano Martina – ARCIPELAGO – Festival Internazionale di Cortometraggi e Nuove
Immagini.
In the Digital Scenes area, Accademia delle Arti e dei Mestieri dello Spettacolo
Teatro alla Scala presents an interactive multimedia work – edited by Christian Silva –
inspired by the famous 1987 production of Don Giovanni by Mozart directed by Muti
and Strehler – whose purpose is to raise young people’s interest in musical theatre.
In the videodance section, Ariella Vidach and her Milan-based company (Ariella Vidach
– AiEP) in collaboration with Mediascena Europa, will present to the audience of
n[ever]land the complex process of realization of multimedia performances in which the
research on the dance code merges with the interest in themes that involve the
relationship between body and technology applying motion capture techniques in dance
performances. Among these works, the interactive dance productions DANXYmusic and
HYBRIDOME, based on new interactive software INCROM (Motion Tracking) and AUXY
(Audiosamplersplayer), created by Claudio Prati with the company.
n[ever]land will host the world’s preview of a documentary by Stefano Scialotti Bailo de
toda la vita – Maria Pages, biografia de una bailaora, the making of Maria Pages’s
new performance “Sevilla” which follows the great flamenco dancer through her journeys
in Tokyo, Madrid, London and Rome, paying her a special homage.
This year the usual digital screens space will be dedicated to the screening of a number
of films shot in HD, and will also provide an opportunity for the audience to meet the
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authors: La radice del male by Silvana Zancolò – one of the very first examples of
productions created by a post-production company, UBIK Visual Effects -, The Silver
Rope by Fabio Resinaro and Fabio Guaglione, Dark Resurrection by Angelo Licata – a
micro-saga created by an entirely self-made production, inspired by the world of Star Wars
- and Billo, Il Grand Dakhaar, a film by Laura Muscardin which has won the Premio della
Critica (Critics’ Award) at the last Festival of Villerupt, realized through an innovative
production system built by Marco Bonini and Jacques Lipkau Goyard with “The
Coproducers”, the same system used by Eros Puglielli in the production of his AD project.
To complete this section, the inquiry-film ZERO, Inchiesta sull’11 settembre – (ZEROan Inquiry on 9/11) will be presented: it is a filmed investigation on the mysteries of that
tragic event which remained unresolved – which will be later commented by its authors
Giulietto Chiesa and Franco Fracassi.
Following a special screening of one of the highest examples of digital animation, the
backstage of Ghost in the shell 2: Innocence will be presented, along with an interview
given by director Mamoru Oshii, one of the most interesting figures in Japanese
cinematography. This great master managed to introduce the complexity of political
fantasy and philosophic-introspective speculation into the world of animation. In his latest
action film, Avalon, which was presented as a non-competing film at the 2001 Cannes Film
festival, he has used Domino digital editing technology for the first time. Ghost in the shell
2: Innocence is the first animation film that uses this technique. n[ever]land will show
various moments of the processing of film during which Japanese animation artists can
transfer pencil drawings into a 3D setting with a long and arduous process.
In addition, seven special screenings will be presented in the Finestra IMAIE section, an
area entirely dedicated to audio-visual works which have been produced in 2006 thanks to
the support of Istituto per la Tutela degli Artisti Interpreti Esecutori. Among these, the
short movies Lacrima nera by Vincent Navarra, the story of a woman (actress Ornella
Giusto) and her journey “through the paths of soul”, Il Giocoliere by Simone Mariani and
Mauro Longoni, a poetic tale about the magical perspective of a street artist, Luce nel
pomeriggio by Teresio Spalla, which uses the new HD/PRO Panasonic system
(competing for the 2007 David di Donatello), and Adagio by Patrizio Cigliano, silent film
written to follow the dramaturgical course of Albinoni’s famous “Adagio”, with cameo
performances by Pierfrancesco Favino, Daniele Pecci, Mario Scaccia, Neri Marcorè and Pino
Quartullo. Finally, an experimental project inspired by the theatrical version of Federico
García Lorca’s work Di qui a cinque anni(When Five Years Pass), Il sogno sopra il tempo
by Caterina Genta and Marco Schiavoni, Le parole necessarie by Cinzia Mascoli, 25’ film
which describes, through a number of interviews, the urge that drives poets, actors,
songwrites, writers and common people to search for words that become an access code to
go beyond words, and Avanti il prossimo by Roberto Della Casa, a scornful parable on
the metropolitan generosity of an ordinary man, will conclude this event.
Among the protagonists in the field of Italian visual effects for the big screen, the event will welcome
PROXIMA – a company which will disclose some digital secrets behind the most recent
films by Paolo Virzì, Marco Risi, Mario Monicelli, Giovanni Veronesi and Fausto Brizzi, and
will illustrate its experience with the Etruskan Mask a horror film by Ted Nicolau, possibly
the first film with a digital monster ever made in Italy - and UBIK Visual Effects – which
will present La radice del male, a low-budget noir film shot in HD. These two companies
will give the audience of n[ever]land an opportunity to attend a series of workshops, with
screenings and demonstrations, concerning visual effects created by using digital
techniques.
An overview of broadcasters’ use of digital technology in the production of scientific
documentaries and television films in Italy will be presented in order to give an account of
present methodologies and of new technical opportunities available, analyzing their limits,
values and potential.
Thus, as a guest in this section, n[ever]land will host Gabriele Cipollitti, a Rai director
and collaborator of Piero Angela in the “Speciali di Superquark” series. His docu-fiction
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Stava 19 luglio, tells the story of the Prestavel mine and its mineral processing facilities
and retraces the growth of dumping grounds and the mud flow that swept Val di Stava
away, using highly sophisticated filming techniques and special effects.
As far as TV series are concerned, Stefano Amatucci - director of Incantesimo and La
Squadra – will illustrate some of the first Italian experiences with television films and soap
operas shot in HD.
Finally, the Corso di Laurea Specialistica in “Editoria, comunicazione multimediale e
giornalismo” of Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Università di Roma Tor Vergata will be
represented at a n[ever]land by the short film Altrove con il suo nome by Silvia Di
Domenico and Giulio Latini featuring Sonia Bergamasco (in the “Digital Screens” section)
and by the presentation of Francesca Vannucchi’s research “La diffusione del libro
attraverso la rete. Dall’e-book al book trailer”, which will be followed by a national preview
of the documentary Un giorno da lettore (in the “Digital Archives” section).
With the kind support of:
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Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali
Regione Lazio, Assessorato alla cultura, spettacolo e sport
Ministero per gli Affari Esteri
Ministro per le Politiche Giovanili e le attività Sportive
Ministro per le Riforme e le Innovazioni nelle Pubblica Ammistrazioni
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Corso di Studi in Arti e Scienze dello
Spettacolo e Centro Teatro Ateneo – Centro di Ricerca sullo Spettacolo
Mifav-Museo dell’Immagine Fotografica e delle Arti Visuali dell’Università degli
Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Corso di Laurea Specialistica in
Editoria, comunicazione multimediale e giornalismo della Facoltà di Lettere e
Filosofi
Università degli Studi di Roma “Roma Tre” - DAMS-Collegio Didattico in Scienze e
Tecnologie dell’Arte, della Musica e dello Spettacolo e Dipartimento Comunicazione
Letteraria e Spettacolo
Cinecittà Holding
Rai Fiction
Embassy of France
Embassy of Spain
American Academy in Rome
Forum Austriaco di Cultura
Ufficio stampa n[ever]land
Chiara Gelato & Michela Greco
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chiaragelato@hotmail.it - michelagreco@hotmail.it
Enzo Aronica
Art Director n[ever]land – digital paths
enzoaronica@neverlandonline.org
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Collaboratore per “Schermi Digitali”
Federico Greco
federico@federicogreco.com
www.federicogreco.com
Segreteria direzione artistica, organizzazione e relazioni esterne
Angela Testa
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Direttore amministrativo
Giovanna De Rubertis
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