Campania: The “Fuori Campo” project curated by Arci Movie ends
Over two thousand students with the Arci Movie project on the seventh art
Campania: The “Fuori Campo” project curated by Arci Movie ends.
Over thirty screenings, six workshops dedicated to very young people and twelve training meetings aimed at teachers. The project closes “Off-Screen – Film Literacy and Widespread Cinema Paths" edited by Arci Movie – historic Neapolitan association that has been operating for over thirty years in the audiovisual sector promoting exhibitions and other initiatives – supported by the “Cinema and images for schools” plan promoted by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and Merit, which brought the cinema in schools in four provinces of Campania.
The synergy between Arci Movie, various associations, schools, universities and media libraries has made it possible to build a packed program of events focused on literacy in the Seventh Art. The activities involved, as partners, the Zia Lidia Social Club association in Avellino, the association in Benevento. Kinetta and Arci Benevento, in Caserta the Cooperativa Mutamenti and Arci Spaccio Culturale, and in Naples the “Il Monello” Media Library, the University Language Center of the Federico II University and the Marano Spot Festival. “Fuori Campo” also involved eight schools from Campania: the Pertini Don Guanella, Bordiga and Sauro Errico Pascoli comprehensive schools in Naples, the IC Sant'Angelo a Sasso in Benevento, the ISS Virgilio and the Liceo Galilei Vetrone a Benevento, IC Perna Alighieri in Avellino and Liceo Manzoni in Caserta.
In the three months of activity, over two thousand students and numerous teachers were involved in the various activities, which took place partly in schools, partly in multifunctional places such as the Teatro Civico 14 in Caerta, and partly in cinemas, such as the Astra cinema and the Pierrot cinema in Naples, and the Partenio cinema in Avellino. Many screenings were held, with nine films chosen for the review plus a package of short films, to offer a broad look at documentary cinema, animation and fiction, with the participation of some guests to present the films to the audience of students and teachers , including Agostino Ferrente, who spoke both in Naples and Avellino, Angelo Cretella and Artemide Alfieri present in Caserta. The final event was held at the Partenio Cinema with the screening of the film “Yaya and Lennie – The Walking Liberty” with the director Alessandro Rak who spoke with the students.
At the same time as the screenings, workshops were held aimed at students and aimed at the more conscious use of tools such as smartphones and tablets, paths that led to the creation of several short films which will then be disseminated by the network of institutions that organized the project. Finally, the proposal was completed by training meetings aimed at teachers from various schools, focused on the educational use of audiovisual media with numerous insights into the language and cinema system in Italy. The training courses were curated by three experts recognized by the MIM, Giacomo Ravesi, university professor and film critic, together with the directors Nazareno Manuel Nicoletti and Andrea Canova.
“Only a few days ago, research on educational poverty in Italy highlighted how over 50% of children have never been to the cinema. With Fuori Campo we tried to rebuild, after the complicated effects of the pandemic, the relationship of minors with the audiovisual sector and with the cinema. Proposing screenings, meetings with the authors, educational and training interventions aimed at students and teachers, with the broad partnership in four provinces of Campania, the project had encouraging results and reached depth, trying to establish a dialogue with young people generations. Thanks precisely to what has been sown this year, we hope to continue the Fuori Campo cinematographic journey as soon as possible to enhance a Cinema that cannot be seen and to promote literacy in the audiovisual language which is increasingly necessary in a society immersed in images, all on now consolidated logic of widespread and widespread networking", says Antonio Borrelli, scientific director of Fuori Campo.
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