Conversation

 'Conversation' was part of Melbourne Urban Screens Festival at Federation Square from 3 - 5 Oct. 2008 and Rotterdam International Film Festival (38th : 2009 : Rotterdam, The Netherlands) from 21 Jan. - 1 Feb. 2009. Both events curated by Mirjam Struppek

Everything was legendary with Robert

A music video for Dave Graney

Empire

Empire re-animates found historic stereographic photographs predominantly of Melbourne’s city centre between 1927 and 1940 when the colonial trace was slowly receding. Melbourne’s main Flinder’s Street Intersection is unsettlingly transformed into a Cubist perceptual maelstrom through repetition and flicker.

The house that eye live in

Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film reveals, his work is suffused with the trauma of migration, and the struggle to recognise himself as a ‘new Australian'. In conversation with documentarian Steven McIntyre, Dirk guides us through more than 40 years of his filmmaking: the early years exploring technique and technology, a subsequent phase of unflinching self-examination brought on by upheaval and overseas travel, and more recent projects where he attempts a fusion of personal, cultural, and historical identity. What emerges is an inspiring, rugged, and at times poignant portrait of an artist committed to self-expression and self-discovery through the medium of film. The House That Eye Live In features spectacular footage of Dirk's renowned expanded-cinema performances, and newly transferred excerpts from his extensive filmography, some of which are seen here for the first time.

Max Bill in Italia . Lo spazio logico dell'architettura

I Max Bill is an intense giornata of a big fresco. An analysis of the main social, artistic and cultural events throughout the twentieth century is needed in order to trace his career through his masterpieces and architectures. Some of the faces of this hypothetical mural painting are, among others, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Kandinskij, Klee, Mondrian, Vatongerloo, Ignazio Silone, while the backcloth is given by artistic avant-gardes, Bauhaus, International Exhibitions, CIAM, war events, reconstruction, Milan Triennali, Venice Biennali, the School of Ulm. Architect, even though more known as painter, sculptor, designer and graphic artist, Max Bill attends the Bauhaus as a student in the years 1927-1929, and from this experience derives the main features of a rational, objective, constructive and non figurative art. His research is devoted to give his art a scientific methodology: each work proceeds from the analysis of a problem to the logical and always verifiable solution of the same problem. By means of composition elements (such as rhythm, seriality, theme and its variation, harmony and dissonance), he faces, with consistent results, themes apparently very distant from each other as the project for the H.f.G. or the design for a font. Mathematics are a constant reference frame as field of certainties, order, objectivity: ‘for Bill mathematics are never confined to a simple function: they represent a climate of spiritual certainties, and also the theme of non attempted in its purest state, objectivity of the sign and of the geometrical place, and at the same time restlessness of the infinity: Limited and Unlimited ’. In almost sixty years of activity, experiencing all artistic fields, Max Bill works, projects, designs, holds conferences and exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Americas, confronting himself with the most influencing personalities of the twentieth century. In such a vast scenery, the need to limit the investigation field combined with the necessity to address and analyse the unpublished and original aspect of Bill’s relations with Italy. The original contribution of the present research regards this particular ‘geographic delimitation’; in particular, beyond the deep cultural exchanges between Bill and a series of Milanese architects, most of all with Rogers, two main projects have been addressed: the realtà nuova at Milan Triennale in 1947, and the Contemporary Art Museum in Florence in 1980. It is important to note that these projects have not been previously investigated, and the former never appears in the sources either. These works, together with the most well-known ones, such as the projects for the VI and IX Triennale, and the Swiss pavilion for the Biennale, add important details to the reference frame of the relations which took place between Zurich and Milan. Most of the occasions for exchanges took part in between the Thirties and the Fifties, years during which Bill underwent a significant period of artistic growth. He meets the Swiss progressive architects and the Paris artists from the Abstraction-Création movement, enters the CIAM, collaborates with Le Corbusier to the third volume of his Complete Works, and in Milan he works and gets confronted with the events related to post-war reconstruction. In these years Bill defines his own working methodology, attaining an artistic maturity in his work. The present research investigates the mentioned time period, despite some necessary exceptions. II The official Max Bill bibliography is naturally wide, including spreading works along with ones more devoted to analytical investigation, mainly written in German and often translated into French and English (Max Bill himself published his works in three languages). Few works have been published in Italian and, excluding the catalogue of the Parma exhibition from 1977, they cannot be considered comprehensive. Many publications are exhibition catalogues, some of which include essays written by Max Bill himself, some others bring Bill’s comments in a educational-pedagogical approach, to accompany the observer towards a full understanding of the composition processes of his art works. Bill also left a great amount of theoretical speculations to encourage a critical reading of his works in the form of books edited or written by him, and essays published in ‘Werk’, magazine of the Swiss Werkbund, and other international reviews, among which Domus and Casabella. These three reviews have been important tools of analysis, since they include tracks of some of Max Bill’s architectural works. The architectural aspect is less investigated than the plastic and pictorial ones in all the main reference manuals on the subject: Benevolo, Tafuri and Dal Co, Frampton, Allenspach consider Max Bill as an artist proceeding in his work from Bauhaus in the Ulm experience . A first filing of his works was published in 2004 in the monographic issue of the Spanish magazine 2G, together with critical essays by Karin Gimmi, Stanislaus von Moos, Arthur Rüegg and Hans Frei, and in ‘Konkrete Architektur?’, again by Hans Frei. Moreover, the monographic essay on the Atelier Haus building by Arthur Rüegg from 1997, and the DPA 17 issue of the Catalonia Polytechnic with contributions of Carlos Martì, Bruno Reichlin and Ton Salvadò, the latter publication concentrating on a few Bill’s themes and architectures. An urge to studying and going in depth in Max Bill’s works was marked in 2008 by the centenary of his birth and by a recent rediscovery of Bill as initiator of the ‘minimalist’ tradition in Swiss architecture. Bill’s heirs are both very active in promoting exhibitions, researching and publishing. Jakob Bill, Max Bill’s son and painter himself, recently published a work on Bill’s experience in Bauhaus, and earlier on he had published an in-depth study on ‘Endless Ribbons’ sculptures. Angela Thomas Schmid, Bill’s wife and art historian, published in end 2008 the first volume of a biography on Max Bill and, together with the film maker Eric Schmid, produced a documentary film which was also presented at the last Locarno Film Festival. Both biography and documentary concentrate on Max Bill’s political involvement, from antifascism and 1968 protest movements to Bill experiences as Zurich Municipality councilman and member of the Swiss Confederation Parliament. In the present research, the bibliography includes also direct sources, such as interviews and original materials in the form of letters correspondence and graphic works together with related essays, kept in the max+binia+jakob bill stiftung archive in Zurich. III The results of the present research are organized into four main chapters, each of them subdivided into four parts. The first chapter concentrates on the research field, reasons, tools and methodologies employed, whereas the second one consists of a short biographical note organized by topics, introducing the subject of the research. The third chapter, which includes unpublished events, traces the historical and cultural frame with particular reference to the relations between Max Bill and the Italian scene, especially Milan and the architects Rogers and Baldessari around the Fifties, searching the themes and the keys for interpretation of Bill’s architectures and investigating the critical debate on the reviews and the plastic survey through sculpture. The fourth and last chapter examines four main architectures chosen on a geographical basis, all devoted to exhibition spaces, investigating Max Bill’s composition process related to the pictorial field. Paintings has surely been easier and faster to investigate and verify than the building field. A doctoral thesis discussed in Lausanne in 1977 investigating Max Bill’s plastic and pictorial works, provided a series of devices which were corrected and adapted for the definition of the interpretation grid for the composition structures of Bill’s main architectures. Four different tools are employed in the investigation of each work: a context analysis related to chapter three results; a specific theoretical essay by Max Bill briefly explaining his main theses, even though not directly linked to the very same work of art considered; the interpretation grid for the composition themes derived from a related pictorial work; the architecture drawing and digital three-dimensional model. The double analysis of the architectural and pictorial fields is functional to underlining the relation among the different elements of the composition process; the two fields, however, cannot be compared and they stay, in Max Bill’s works as in the present research, interdependent though self-sufficient. IV An important aspect of Max Bill production is self-referentiality: talking of Max Bill, also through Max Bill, as a need for coherence instead of a method limitation. Ernesto Nathan Rogers describes Bill as the last humanist, and his horizon is the known world but, as the ‘Concrete Art’ of which he is one of the main representatives, his production justifies itself: Max Bill not only found a method, but he autonomously re-wrote the ‘rules of the game’, derived timeless theoretical principles and verified them through a rich and interdisciplinary artistic production. The most recurrent words in the present research work are synthesis, unity, space and logic. These terms are part of Max Bill’s vocabulary and can be referred to his works. Similarly, graphic settings or analytical schemes in this research text referring to or commenting Bill’s architectural projects were drawn up keeping in mind the concise precision of his architectural design. As for Mies van der Rohe, it has been written that Max Bill took art to ‘zero degree’ reaching in this way a high complexity. His works are a synthesis of art: they conceptually encompass all previous and –considered their developments- most of contemporary pictures. Contents and message are generally explicitly declared in the title or in Bill’s essays on his artistic works and architectural projects: the beneficiary is invited to go through and re-build the process of synthesis generating the shape. In the course of the interview with the Milan artist Getulio Alviani, he tells how he would not write more than a page for an essay on Josef Albers: everything was already evident ‘on the surface’ and any additional sentence would be redundant. Two years after that interview, these pages attempt to decompose and single out the elements and processes connected with some of Max Bill’s works which, for their own origin, already contain all possible explanations and interpretations. The formal reduction in favour of contents maximization is, perhaps, Max Bill’s main lesson.

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Marketing de cinema : a supply chain do sector cinematografico português

Mestrado em Marketing

The Amplifier - v. 16, no. 2

In this issue...Who's Who, Vietnam War, Student Union Building, Cultural Programs, Library, Loretta Peck, Radio 1370, Film Festival, Elizabeth Lochrie, Big Sky Techettes

Anna, sette anni al fronte. Analisi e proposta di sottotitolaggio del film documentario Anna, sem' let na linii fronta

The aim of the present work was to make more accessible a documentary film that focuses on the life and work of the Russian journalist killed in Moscow in 2006: Anna Politkovskaja. The film, entitled “Anna, seven years at the frontline” is a collage of several video-interviews with Politkovskaja’s friends and colleagues, in which they talk about who she was, what was her job about and how she tried to make the public aware about the Chechen wars. Working on this translation gave me a unique opportunity to deepen one of the most controversial issues in the recent history of Russia and to create a useful final product for those who have a particular interest in this topic but do not have the necessary linguistic competence to understand this documentary film.

L'ultima propaganda. Proposta di sottotitolaggio del notiziario "1. Mai 1989" e del documentario "Berlin - Hauptstadt der DDR"

Dal 1949 al 1989 la Germania dovette fare i conti con le conseguenze della 2^ guerra mondiale e della guerra fredda, che portarono alla spaccatura ideologica e geografica del paese. La Repubblica Democratica Tedesca, costruita su modello del socialismo dell’Urss, era guidata dal partito della SED, che esercitò il proprio predominio sociale, politico ed economico sulla popolazione e sull’opinione pubblica, servendosi di mezzi sottili di influenza e di controllo e, non da ultimo, del linguaggio. Il progetto di questa tesi si basa sull’analisi e il sottotitolaggio di un notiziario del telegiornale della Germania Est, Aktuelle Kamera, e di un documentario prodotto dalla DEFA, l’impresa tedesco-orientale addetta alla produzione di film, con l’obiettivo di approfondire lo studio della propaganda degli ultimi anni di vita della RDT, che, grazie al controllo di tutti i mezzi di comunicazione, indottrinava i cittadini a una visione socialista del mondo e giustificava le scelte del governo. Attraverso il filtro cinematografico si possono delineare le caratteristiche della società tedesca orientale, che, pur sotto l’influenza sovietica, presentava una propria identità e cultura. Nel primo capitolo di questo elaborato verrà presentato il quadro storico di riferimento, ripercorrendo le tappe salienti che portarono alla formazione delle due Germanie e l’evoluzione sociale e politica della RDT; nel secondo capitolo ci si concentrerà sul sistema della propaganda creato dal regime con particolare attenzione al ruolo delle istituzioni, dei media e degli intellettuali. Inoltre si farà accenno all’opera di censura, al delicato mondo del consenso/dissenso e al Ministero della Sicurezza di Stato. Infine, nel terzo e ultimo capitolo verranno presentati i due documenti sottotitolati (il notiziario “1. Mai 1989” e il documentario “Berlin – die Hauptstadt der DDR”) e, basandosi su esempi concreti, verranno analizzate le strategie traduttive messe in atto durante la fase di traduzione.

Tradurre il genere documentario : Due proposte di sottotitolaggio del documentario Little Land a confronto

The aim of this thesis is to discuss the main translation issues encountered while performing a double version of the subtitles of the documentary “Little Land” from English into Italian. The main motivation behind my choice is a personal interest in the subtitling field applied to the documentary filmic genre. This project is divided into two parts. The first part constitutes the theoretical basis of the thesis and is divided in three chapters. The first chapter introduces the documentary “Little Land” and analyses its main features and characteristics. The second chapter is devoted to documentary studies and theory of documentary, including the historical overview of the changes of this filmic genre and an overview of its market potential in order to meet both the audience and the director’s requirements. The third chapter deals with audiovisual translation as a discipline, and analyses the main translation techniques adopted for the documentary genre: dubbing, voice-over and subtitling. The subtitling section is particularly rich, and a discussion of the use of double and pivot subtitles and the possibilities of subtitling for accessibility issues is included. The second part constitutes the practical development of the theories introduced and dealt with in the first part. Chapter four provides an overview of the history of the Cineteca di Bologna, for whom I worked as a subtitler, and explains the guide lines and equipment required in order to perform the manual launch of the subtitles during their festival Human Rights Nights. The fifth and final chapter provides an analysis of the second version of the subtitles, meant for TV broadcasting, and highlights the main issues encountered during the translation process, both from a structural and a lexical point of view. A discussion of the different translation strategies adopted is provided, in a constant comparison with the first version of the subtitles. The function of self-reflection and self-observation in translation is also examined. Appendix A and B contain the interviews with “Little Land”’s director and protagonist respectively, Appendix C contains the subtitles table.

“L'arma più forte” La propaganda cinematografica nella guerra civile spagnola (1936-1939) Proposta di sottotitolaggio del documentario anarchico “Los Aguiluchos de la FAI por tierras de Aragón. Reportaje n° 1, Estampas de la revolución antifascista” e del documentario franchista “La liberación de Madrid”

Dal 1936 al 1939 la Spagna dovette fare i conti con gli orrori di una guerra che aveva diviso in due il paese, sia ideologicamente che geograficamente, facendogli vivere una tragedia ancora oggi tangibile nel tessuto sociale e politico della penisola iberica. Questo conflitto, che aveva suscitato l’interesse di molti, raggiunse un livello tale di sperimentazione, sia in campo militare, sia in quello civile, da essere considerato un banco di prova per la seconda guerra mondiale. Il progetto di tesi, attraverso l’analisi e il sottotitolaggio di due documentari, uno anarchico e l’altro franchista, intende presentare una ricerca che ha come focus primario lo studio della propaganda cinematografica durante il periodo della guerra civile spagnola. Il cinema che, proprio negli anni Trenta, si era definitivamente affermato anche grazie all’introduzione del sonoro, fu presto considerato un potente mezzo di comunicazione divenendo un’arma di persuasione della quale, entrambi gli schieramenti con tempistiche diverse, si servirono per indottrinare la popolazione e giustificare la propria azione militare. Il cinema, pertanto, fu messo al servizio della guerra. Nel primo capitolo di questo elaborato verrà presentato il quadro storico di riferimento con la definizione delle cause, dell’evoluzione e delle ideologie in campo durante il conflitto. Il secondo capitolo si concentrerà sull’analisi dei due sistemi di propaganda, quella repubblicana e quella nazionalista, con un’attenzione principale nei confronti della propaganda cinematografica e delle sue diverse espressioni politiche nella penisola iberica. In questo capitolo si farà, inoltre, accenno alla produzione cinematografica internazionale riferita al conflitto spagnolo durante gli anni della guerra e in quelli immediatamente successivi. Infine, nel terzo e ultimo capitolo, si prenderanno in analisi i due documentari sottotitolati (“Los Aguiluchos de la FAI por tierras de Aragón, Reportaje nº1, Estampas de la revolución antifascista” e “La Liberación de Madrid”, con la presentazione dell’analisi tecnica e contenutistica degli stessi. Per concludere, verranno indicate le strategie traduttive impiegate durante la fase di traduzione e riportati esempi concreti ad esse riferite.

Proposta di sottotitolaggio del terzo episodio del film Operacija Y i drugie priključenija Šurika [Operazione Y e altre avventure di Šurik]

L’obiettivo del presente elaborato è quello di fornire un testo per il sottotitolaggio di Operacija Y [Operazione Y], il terzo episodio della celebre commedia sovietica Operacija Y i drugie priključenija Šurika [Operazione Y e altre avventure di Šurik]. Il capitolo iniziale introduce la traduzione audiovisiva e tratta in particolare il sottotitolaggio, i passaggi di realizzazione di quest’ultimo e i suoi tratti salienti. Il secondo capitolo propone una contestualizzazione del genere della commedia cinematografica russa durante il periodo sovietico, mentre il terzo fornisce una breve biografia del regista Leonid Gajdaj e la descrizione del film, con particolare attenzione al rinomato trio comico criminale formato da Trus, Balbes e Byvalyj. L’ultimo capitolo consiste in un commento alla traduzione e nell’analisi delle difficoltà incontrate e delle soluzioni trovate. In appendice viene riportato il testo per la sottotitolazione.

Sottotitolaggio e pivot subtitling a confronto nello spezzone del film "This is England".

Lo scopo di questa tesi è mettere a confronto due tecniche di sottotitolaggio presenti sul mercato, sottotitolando uno spezzone del film “This is England”. Il primo approccio è il sottotitolaggio tradizionale, ovvero la creazione di sottotitoli in una data lingua a partire dall’audio e dallo script nella lingua dei dialoghi originali. Il secondo metodo è il pivot subtitling, che consiste nella creazione di sottotitoli in una determinata lingua a partire da sottotitoli esistenti in una lingua diversa da quella dei dialoghi originali. Questa tesi nasce dalla curiosità di sperimentare personalmente le due tecniche e formare una mia opinione critica al riguardo. Così è seguita la scelta di un film. Il film “This is England”, di difficile comprensione a causa di accenti particolarmente marcati di alcuni protagonisti, della densità di alcuni dialoghi e dei riferimenti culturali alla sottocultura inglese skinhead nata a fine anni ‘60. La parte principale del lavoro è stata la creazione dei sottotitoli. Nel primo capitolo introdurrò il film, spiegherò la prima fase del lavoro, ovvero come ho svolto il processo del sottotitolaggio tradizionale, successivamente seguiranno nozioni sui pivot subtitles e il secondo processo di creazione di quelli italiani. Il secondo capitolo spiegherà il concetto di qualità dei sottotitoli. Successivamente seguiranno i commenti ai sottotitoli: si tratterà di mettere a confronto i sottotitoli ottenuti con le due diverse tecniche per la medesima battuta o scena. Per finire analizzerò le differenze che emergono dalle due tecniche, l’impatto sul pubblico, i vantaggi e gli svantaggi di ognuna e i motivi per cui una viene utilizzata più dell’altra. Queste considerazioni serviranno per dare una risposta alla questione della tesi: in cosa consiste la differenza fra le due tecniche? Sono accettabili entrambi i risultati seppur diversi?