An annual round table promoted by Isola Edipo with the collaboration ofGiornate degli Autori and the participation of Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, dedicated investigating the relationship between cinema and inclusion by meeting with some international cinema maestros. This round table, aimed at a heterogeneous audience composed of cinema and art students, the press, Festival attendees and the public in the territory, provides for the selection of one or more works of the artist nominated for the current year accompanied by a master class.
Frederick Wiseman
For the necessary and tireless ability to observe and narrate the architecture of institutions highlighting contradictions, disparities and possibilities. His ability to reveal practices used and or suffered by individuals and communities has been indispensable know-how for the world for decades.
Raymond Depardon
For the ability to provide a view capable of highlighting journeys of liberation and contexts of denial through the story of landscapes of different natures and through the language of amazing cinematography and photography over time.
Margarethe Von Trotta
For the ability to have immediately been able to narrate, through an always rigorous and surprising cinematic view, history and stories through the eyes of women, revealing the tensions and contradictions of a perspective too long removed or betrayed.
Liliana Cavani
For the constant and always firm ability to know how to narrate the roots of our history and our culture without rhetoric and without suffering the weight of moral judgement, keeping contradiction alive: rich and creative space,within which she was able to portray women, resistance, death, science and religion, through an always complex portrait of real encounters between possible forms of reality.
2021 SPECIAL EDITION
Michele Placido, Julia Von Heinz, Oliver Guerpillon, Jaco Van Dormael, Michel Winterbottom
For the ability to have been able to unite a world divided by the pandemic, restoring the perception of a composite and conscious horizon to our wounded eyes.
Michele Placido, Julia Von Heinz, Jaco Van Dormael, Olivier Guerpillon and Michael Winterbottom with Isolation, through the creation of a constellation of visions characterised by the expression of different cinematic identities, perform an act of inclusion indispensable to our times and to cinema.
Artavazd Pelechian
To be the guardian of an independent and intact look in the face of a torn reality that tends to crush the imagination on a single total vision. And for the ability to know how to gather and fit a form of salvation of harmony between living beings and the environment on a world drowning in the noise of catastrophe.
Morzaniel Ɨramari
Morzaniel Iramari Morzaniel Iramari (born 1980, Watoriki, Brazil) is one of the first Yanomami artists to approach cinema. He was trained as a filmmaker through the Video nas Aldeias project (Video in the Villages Project), a brazilian NGO to strengthen Indigenous rights through audiovisual production. In his most recent film, “Mãri hi – The Tree of Dream”, he presents the Yanomami knowledge of dreams through the words of the great shaman Davi Kopenawa and a poetic composition of images of the forest.
Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith
Correspondences” is an ever-evolving project between Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith. Spanning over 10 years, it traverses a wealth of geographies and their natural environments, where the artists have uncovered sonic steps left by poets, filmmakers, revolutionaries, and the impact of climate change.
Isola Edipo is the perfect landing place for Patti Smith and the founder of the Soundwalk Collective, Stephan Crasneanscki – who named the tracks on their EP “Correspondences Vol. 1” “Pasolini” and “Medea”. The two songs in “Correspondences” are audiovisual journeys that provoke reflection and conversations around cinema and poetry. The connection between singer-songwriter, poet, photographer, and painter Patti Smith and Pier Paolo Pasolini is profound and was born through cinema.