The screening of Jackie by Pablo Larrain is continuing the PHOTO. The Paparazzi are here! showcase.
Cinema Massimo – 14 October 2017, 4.00 p.m. – Screen Three
For the occasion of the showcase titled “Arrivano i Paparazzi!" by CAMERA – Italian Centre for Photography - until 7 January 2018 - the screenings connected with themes analysed by the exhibition will be continuing each month. Pablo Larrain’s film Jackie will be screened on Saturday 14 October at 4.00 p.m.
Admission 6.00/4.00 euro.
With over 150 pictures of “Yesterday and today’s Vips and Stars”, shots by famous photographers like Tazio Secchiaroli, Marcello Geppetti, Ron Galella, Lino Nanni and photography projects by contemporary artists such as Alison Jackson and Armin Linke, this exhibition recounts the Paparazzi phenomenon and its transformations. Starting from Rome in the early Sixties, the age of the famed Dolce Vita in Via Veneto, with an immersion into the society and the customs of that season, the exhibition proceeds along its visual itinerary through the years and the themes which changed with the transformation of society and of the very mass communication media. The taste for surprise and direct pouncing, which characterised the Paparazzi, morphs over time in a more voyeuristic view from a distance. Examples of this are the life events of Jackie Kennedy, later Onassis, an authentic icon for the costume and scandal-mongering press, and of Lady Diana, whose stories are closely linked with those of “image-thieves”. The circuit includes pictures shot by some contemporary artists, who have played upon this language, between make-believe and reality, and by great fashion photographers, who have transformed this language into style.
Pablo Larrain
Jackie
(Usa/ Chile 2016, 100’, DCP, col., o.v. it.s/t)
Five days have gone by since the death of John F. Kennedy and Theodore H. White, the political reporter for "Life", knocks at his wife Jackie’s door to ask her for a detailed report about the facts. Cigarette after cigarette, Jackie establishes her story through his questions. He writes and Jackie reads it over, rectifies, manipulates and perfects.