Frontiera passaggi metropolitani - samedi 4 avril

Frontiera is a concept that interlaces cinema, visual arts and narration in order to probe the forms of representation of contemporary life in the areas where the symbolic, economic, social and political aspect of the changes of the present require such investigation. The “border” that is examined is not the tangible and immediately recognizable one whose painful presence is increasingly – and painfully – part of history. It is instead the daunting border of cement and checkpoints that separates territories and that, in its unprecedented and blind violence, presents itself as a defined object that has become entrenched in the collective imagination and is somehow reassuring.

This year’s subject is the metropolis, viewed as the crisis of the rational organization of urban space and its visible dualities (centre/suburbs, public space/private space, urbanization/ruralism, labour/unemployment).

What is needed against representative cinema and actions that have discarded formal reflection and merely want to recount facts and happenstance is an eye that can rediscover thought, one that can outline and gaze at what is not yet visible but is already there. After all, haven’t words (and images) always been followed by actions?

Informations:Lien internet:www.lafrontiera.net