FATA MORGANA
Quadrimestrale di cinema e visioni
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SOMMARIO
INCIDENZE
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L’inganno della realtà. Conversazione con Walter Siti
a cura di Alessia Cervini e Daniele Dottorini
FOCUS
21
Declinazioni del reale in ambito televisivo
Enrico Menduni
29
Espropri di realtà
Marco Bertozzi
39
L’immagine tra calco e calcolo
Christian Uva
47
Strategie di realismo digitale
Simone Arcagni
57
Il compimento dell’oggetto fotografico nel tempo
Marco Grosoli
71
La visione del reale. John Berger e la costruzione dell’immagine
Denis Brotto
81
Tratto da una storia vera
Franco Marineo
89
Dai ready-made ai film in divenire
Jerome P. Schaefer
99
Real Eye Say Shun: una sciarada
Patrizia Fantozzi
109
Il mumblecore e il cinema indipendente americano
Hamilton Santià
117
Where is your rupture? Il ritorno del reale
sugli schermi della ripetitività
Martina Panelli
129
Essere-nel-cinema
Christine Reeh
141
Dal verismo al vetrismo
Enrico Terrone
149
Lo statuto mimetico del colore nel cinema contemporaneo
Federico Pierotti
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La montagna dipinta
Sofia Bonicalzi
165
Reale, flagranza, spettralità
Alessandro Cappabianca
175
Iperreale. Cinema, fenomenologia e statue di cera
Pietro Conte
183
Il realismo dello sguardo lacaniano
Pietro Bianchi
193
Naufraghi privi di zattera: il reale nel cinema di Buñuel
Rosamaria Salvatore
205
Fantomachie. Jacques Derrida e la spettralità del reale
Fabrizio Palombi
RIFRAZIONI
217
I corpi di Salò e il Reale del desiderio
Claudio Bisoni
225
Kinoglaz: la realtà della rivoluzione
Alessio Scarlato
231
Lui di Buñuel: il coup de cloche o la catastrofe del Reale
Arianna Salatino
237
Il reale del film. S : tream : S : S : ection :
S : ection : S : S : ectioned di Sharits
Enrico Camporesi
243
Il reale indescrivibile del Pantheon in Il ventre dell’architetto
Sun Jung Yeo
251
The Third Memory: stati della finzione nell’arte di Pierre Huyghe
Luca Cinquemani
259
Le armonie di Werckmeister:
la lotta della “meraviglia” contro il Reale
Claudia Barolo
265
Due amici. Il cinema de-reale di Scimone e Sframeli
Katia Trifirò
271
Andrzej Dragan: immagini di un nuovo scenario mediale
Francesco Parisi
277
Il cinema e l’accesso al vero: Bella addormentata
Marina Pellanda
283
Prima del reale: Io e te di Bertolucci
Francesco Ceraolo
289
Abstract in inglese
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The Fallacy of Reality. A Conversation with Walter Siti
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naive relativism. It rather means to consider ‘reality’ as a cultural product:
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Meanings of the Real in the Television Realm
Enrico Menduni
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that concerns the realism of cinema. Namely: ontological realism – for the
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Expropriations of Reality
Marco Bertozzi
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Abstract in inglese
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The Image Between Cast and Calculus
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various forms, do not cease to experience some form of referentiality to
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Strategies of Digital Realism
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The Accomplishment of the Photographic Object in Time
Marco Grosoli
This essay aims to reconsider André Bazin’s Ontologie de l’image
photographique by especially focusing on the ‘mummy complex’. The
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of his essay) not only represents a crucial deviation from André Malraux’s
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notion of mimesis) suggests a truly modern conception of the cinematic
gaze, surprisingly close to Jacques Lacan’s notion of the Real.
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Abstract in inglese
Vision of the Real. John Berger and the Construction of the Image
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condition, by recalling his entire artistic career. As a poet, sculptor, painter,
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on different meanings of reality, and offered fundamental theories about
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Based On A True Story
Franco Marineo
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of ‘true’ and ‘false’.
From Ready-Made Films to Films in the Making
Jerome P. Schaefer
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set, this essay intends to analyze an alternative, more nuanced approach
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Abstract in inglese
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Real Eye Say Shun: Charades
Patrizia Fantozzi
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of images in the history of cinema, according to Raymond Bellour, ‘by
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and volatilization of every ‘recognition agreement’, the essay aims to investigate the extraordinary ‘mythopoetic activity’ of the greatest ‘Ego’ that
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contractible poles, namely the maximum of sensuality (as immersion in
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physical and spiritual elements. Only by embracing, by feeding each other
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The Mumblecore and American Independent Cinema
Hamilton Santià
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Abstract in inglese
Where is Your Rupture? The Return of the Real on the Screens of
Repetition
Martina Panelli
In his famous essay Return of the Real, Hal Foster focuses on the serial
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repetition. Starting from this theoretical model, the essay focuses on the
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the authors in the face of an apparently recursive and anonymous practice
as that of found footage.
Being-in-a-Film
Christine Reeh
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Abstract in inglese
From Verismo to Mirrorism
Enrico Terrone
By relying upon Walton’s account of photography, the essay focuses
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The essay concludes hence that indexicality, counterfactual dependence and
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The Mimetic Status of the Colour in Contemporary Cinema
Federico Pierotti
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order to investigate the mimetic status of digital colours, this essay provides
a preliminary survey on colour correction practices adopted by some recent
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The Painted Mountain
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medium, results in a mechanical reproduction of reality. This essay analyzes
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to elements emerged in the Anglo-Saxon debate on realism.
Real, Flagrancy, Spectrality
Alessandro Cappabianca
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these elements that the Real manages to emerge in cinema, contaminating
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narratives (a Symbolic instance)? Evidently not, or at least not only. If one
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strangeness’ mentioned by Freud, one must admit that this generally resopcvgu"Ï"cndgkv"ykvj"oqtg"qt"nguu"gxkfgpeg"Ï"kp"vjg"xgt{"urgevtcn"pcvwtg"qh"Þnou0
Hyperreal. Cinema, Phenomenology and Wax Statues
Pietro Conte
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Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920), Fcu"YcejuÞiwtgpmcdkpgvv (Leni,
1924) and O{uvgt{"qh"vjg"Ycz"Owugwo (Curtiz, 1933), this essay explores
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Realism of the Lacanian Gaze
Pietro Bianchi
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each other. Cinematic experience is analyzed in this perspective, as in
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(the camera).
Shipwrecks Without a Raft: the Real in Buñuel’s Cinema
Rosamaria Salvatore
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it through the different stages of Lacan’s elaboration of this concept. Aim
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features. Vjg"Gzvgtokpcvkpi"Cpign (1962), This Strange Passion (1953), The
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Fantomachie. Jacques Derrida and the Spectrality of the Real
Fabrizio Palombi
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Salò’s Bodies and the Real of the Desire
Claudio Bisoni
By starting from Yjcv"¥crtwfgt"Ucy"/"cp"guuc{"d{"Lqcp"Eqrlge"egpvtgf"qp"
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In particular, sexual perversions in Salò are described as the emergence of a
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Kinoglaz: The Reality of Revolution
Alessio Scarlato
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of becoming a collective Author, and the a-dialectical inscrutableness of
madness.
Buñuel’s This Strange Passion. The Coup de Cloche and the Disaster
of the Real
Arianna Salatino
According to Jacques Lacan, the Real is not reality. The Real can be
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The Film’s Real. On S : tream : S : S : ection : S : ection : S : S :
ectioned by Sharits
Enrico Camporesi
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The Indescribable Real of the Pantheon in Peter Greenaway’s The
Belly of an Architect
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tectonic editing of the Pantheon’s scene, the Roman dome system appears in
a dialectic of convocation and revocation, an elaboration of constructional
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the process of editing performs the function of tectonic ornament, not only
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The Third Memory: Realms of Fiction in The Art of Pierre Huyghe
Luca Cinquemani
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Werckmeister Harmonies: The Fight of ‘Astonishment’ Against the
Real
Claudio Barolo
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Harmonies’ cinematic structure. According to Lacan, even though the regkuvgt"qh"vjg"Tgcn"eqpegtpu"vjg"jwocp"dgkpi."kv"gnwfgu"cp{"rquukdng"ukipkÞcation. It translates the sudden rise of an emerging indistinct anguish; or
cuts any familiar bond and ends up in a disruptive laceration. The analysis
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Due amici. The A-Real Cinema by Scimone and Sframeli
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pathologically the usual paradigms of representation of reality. The aim of
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by stressing their use of a a-real dialect as a code of belonging to the same
realm of marginalization and failure.
Andrzej Dragan: Images of a New Medial Scenary
Francesco Parisi
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differ from the visual contemporary scenario. Because of his sophisticated
technique of visual processing, the resulting picture appears to be hyper-real.
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stimulations deriving from the intermedial universe. Moreover, it pushes
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Cinema and the Access to the True: Dormant Beauty
Marina Pellanda
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Before the Real: Bertolucci’s Me and You
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(2012). By moving from Pasolini’s reading of Before the Revolution (1964),
the essay claims that a ‘self-conscious’ ideology is a fundamental aspect in a
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