Sassari - Thursday 16th March 2017, 10h00 - Accademia di Belle Arti 'Mario Sironi' - Via Duca degli Abruzzi, 4
Seminar: GOING TO A FILM SCHOOL OR FILM FESTIVAL IS A WASTE OF TIME BUT SODANKYLÄ IS AN EXCEPTION...
with Paolo Zucca, Davide Bini, Carla Caprioli, Bernardo Bolognesi and the managing/organising team of Midnight Sun Film Festival - Sodankylä (Finland): Ari Lehtola, Timo Malmi, Milja Mikkola and Johanna Saarinen
During the seminar some excerpts will be projected from MR. ROSSI GOES TO LAPLAND - IL SIGNOR ROSSI VA IN LAPPONIA by Bernardo Bolognesi (Italy/2005/74’) and SODANKYLÄ FOREVER - THE CENTURY OF CINEMA by Peter von Bagh (Finland/2010/49’). To be discussed:
- why do we organise a film festival in 'nowhere land'?
- to which audience is the MSFF addressed?
- 30 years and 25,000 visitors a year (during the 5-days of the festival): which lessons can we draw from the MSFF's experience?
- film festivals in lands affected by de-pastoralism and de-industrialis - social and economic consequences
- remote areas as privileged film locations
Our seminar title is a sentence by Terry Gilliam, a recurring guest of the Midnight Sun Film Festival:
"Going to a film school or film festivals is a waste of time..."
... but Sodankylä is an exception because you can buy a reindeer coat here."
(Peter von Bagh Sodankylä Forever - Masters of Cinema Under the Midnight Sun, Rosebud 2010, page 354)
The seminar at the Academy of Fine Arts 'Mario Sironi' in Sassari. From left: Ari Lehtola, Paolo Zucca, Milja Mikkola, Carla Caprioli. Standing: Davide Bini (photo Patrizia Garau).