Monos #1
Marco Bertozzi
Archive Cinegraphs
The question about the use of archival material and its relations to our historical present within cinematographic and artistic practices is at the summit of our times. What are its misinterpretations, risks and promises?
In this introductory lesson, the ethical and the philological meet to analyze the "madness"
behind this passion.
Marco Bertozzi is a documentarist and professor of history of documentary and experimental film at IUAV University of Venice.
He has published numerous studies of documentary cinema and its relationships to architecture and the city, including Storia del documentario italiano (History of Italian documentary, Marsilio, 2008), L'immaginario urbano nel cinema delle origini. La veduta Lumière (Urban Imagery in Early Cinema: The Lumière View, CLUEB, 2001), L'occhio e la pietra. Il cinema, una cultura urbana (The Eye and the Stone: Cinema,
an Urban Culture, Lindau, 2004). His most awarded films are Predappio in Luce (2008),
Il senso degli altri (2007) and Rimini Lampedusa Italia (2004).
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