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MEETINGS AT VENICE DAYS CLOSE WITH AN APPEAL: CULTURE EMERGENCY
06/09/2008
The meetings at the Authors Villa had their closure yesterday with the group “CULTURE EMERGENCY” proposing the debate TOWARD A NEW HUMANISM- Re-open the dialogue between different languages. The meeting, focused on the importance of recognizing culture as central element of civil and democratic life of our Country, put itself as a sequel of the discussion begun on March the 28th, at Teatro Valle in Rome in a convention called Culture Emergency, that produced the manifesto Project for a new Humanism. In Venice this discussion has been transformed into an encounter with the Biennale, the world of Italian and international cinema, institutions and associations of theatre, literature and contemporary music, in sight of the creation of a permanent laboratory that would put culture as strategic choice for a society in transformation.
The director Ugo Gregoretti, as President of National Association Cinematographic Directors (ANAC), on behalf of Association for Italian Theatre Benedetta Buccellato, Nino Russo (Anac),speaking on behalf of Carlo Lizzani, busy in preparing his next film, Rocco Cersareo, from National Union of Writers, Bruno Torri, President of Cinematographic Journalists Union, Emidio Greco (vice-president of Venice Days), Roberto Perpignani, President of Italian Federation of Cineaudiovisual Associations.
Paolo Baratta – President of the Venice Biennale – underlined how “there is always need to notice that we are in a serious and qualitative showcase for filmmakers. While we work in this project, it’s hard for us to create a dialogue with world around us, that usually considers culture like a moment of consumption and creativity like a sort of machine that transform us in a news pass”. In the end, Fabio Ferzetti (General Delegate of Venice Days), resumes the central issue of the meeting, in an “absence of efforts in trying to understand the changes of society”