Lucania between Film and Ecology
Bodies, Environments, Representations
LiFE Project aims to explore the diversified connections between Basilicata, cinema and ecology, and thus to identify and emphasize the forms and ways through which urban/rural historical, cultural and social contexts have been and may be variously expressed and represented. In order to explore the above mentioned connections, the general concept of the film world is taken as the hermeneutic horizon within which ecocritical research can examine not only different ways of representing reality, but also the processes of signification through which it can be understood, rethought and transformed. In this sense, moving images can be considered as a powerful means of transformation and change, from past to new ways of interpreting and inhabiting the world. This is the general framework within which the project aims at considering film as a proper medium for ecocritical and philosophical reflections on a regional reality such as Basilicata, its history, people and territory.
Scientific and Organising Committee
Alberto Baracco, Manuela Gieri, Chiara Simonigh