LiFE 2020
21–30 September 2020
A Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference
For the rationale behind the NCN approach , see Ken Hiltner’s White Paper/Practical Guide.
LiFE 2020 Conference 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 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 conference 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.
PROGRAMME
Marco Armiero
Dismantling the Wasteocene. Toxic Narratives vs Commoning Practices at
the Peripheries of Capitalist Modernity
PANELS
Manuela Gieri
Towards South: For a New Ecology of the Gaze
Rocco e i suoi fratelli: Luchino Visconti’s Lucania Between Real and Imaginary
Memory for Rocco Mazzola
Oil Documentaries: A Few Notes on Pietre, miracoli e petrolio (Pannone, 2004) and Nero d’Italia (Castellano, 2013)
Ch4 Lucania. ENI in Basilicata, Landscape and Industrial Labor
“The Earth Speaks to All of Us”: Queer Ecology in Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky
Chiara Simonigh
Landscape, Aesthetics, Complexity. A Research Hypothesis
Basilicata Inside and Outside: The Lucanian Landscape and the Interior/Exterior Relation in Non-Fiction Cinema
Divine and Diabolical Lucania Between the Fifties and Sixties. From De Martino to Di Gianni and Rondi
On the Relationship Between Human Being and World, at the Time of Capitalism
Elena Past
Itinerant Ecocriticism in Basilicata and Italian Cinema on Foot
Michelangelo Frammartino’s Alberi. The Arboreal Rite of a Land Between Anthropological Myth and Ecocritical Tale
The Films of Nicola Ragone Between Art, Ecology and Marginality
Dwelling in the ‘South’. On Land, Permaculture and Cinema
Heroes of the Cityscape: Rome in Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot
Alberto Baracco
Lucania, Land of Fairy Tales and Films. From Basile’s Lo Cunto de li Cunti to Roccati’s Lucania. Land, Blood and Magic
Basilicata in Transformation: Through the Italian Post-War Documentary
Isabella di Morra’s «valle inferna» Between Myth and Reality. About the
Movie Sexum superando
How to Propose an Environmental Awareness for the Contemporary Media Landscape: Ecology, Participation, Resistance
Scientific and Organising Committee
Manuela Gieri, Chiara Simonigh, Alberto Baracco