Inaugural event featuring the VOCI DEL SILENZIO (VOICES OF SILENCE) series of meetings, in conjunction with the DIVERSAMENTE VIVI (LIVING DIFFERENTLY) exhibition. Discussion with guests on the exhibition’s theme and public screening of Paul Leni’s film The Cat and the Canary.

The latest event in the DIALOGHI IN CORSO festival features a presentation of the book John Ford: Un pensiero per immagini (A philosophy in images) by Toni D’Angela, Edizioni Unicopli, 2010.

The book narrates the private side of John Ford using a dialogue between the strength of his images and the creative strength of some of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century: Benjamin, Lévinas, Blanchot, Adorno, Deleuze and Badiou. This is an investigation that covers several common themes in Ford’s work such as our encounter with something different from ourselves and the genesis of subjectivity, a criticism of representations that empty reality of its immediacy, community, the issue of history and war.

Gianni Rondolino (film critic and historian) and Giulia Carluccio (of the University of Turin) will participate alongside the author. Introduction by Marco Grifo (National Cinema Museum). The presentation will be followed by a screening of John Ford’s film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.