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Screening and discussion of "La Quarta Via', by Simone Brioni: UCL 8 March 2011

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Federica Mazzara <[log in to unmask]>

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Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies <[log in to unmask]>

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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

Dear all,

it's my pleasure to invite you to the screening of a short film by Simone
Brioni (University of Warwick), called LA QUARTA VIA. The film will be
followed by a discussion with the director and the main actress.

The event is organized by the UCL Italian Department and it will take
place at the Italian Seminar Room, Foster Court 351 (UCL, Gower Street,
WC1 6BT, London), on Tuesday 8 March, at 6pm. The film has English
subtitles.
For any further information do not hesitate to contact me:
[log in to unmask] **All Welcome**

Best, Wishes
Fderica
P.S. Please find details and synopsis of the film below.

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LA QUARTA VIA. (ITA, 38’, 2009) di Simone Brioni.
Tratto da una  performance orale di Kaha Mohamed Aden.
Regia: Simone Brioni, Graziano  Chiscuzzu, Ermanno Guida.
Scritto da Kaha Mohamed Aden, Simone Brioni.  Montaggio: Simone Brioni,
Ermanno Guida, Graziano Chiscuzzu. Riprese e  Fotografia: Graziano
Chiscuzzu, Ermanno Guida.
Suono: Isacco Chiaf.
Fotografie: Claudio Colombo, Elena Bedei.
Sottotitoli in inglese:  Florence  Dickens.

SINOSSI: Kaha Mohamed Aden racconta di Mogadiscio, sua città natale, e ne 
ricostruisce la storia a Pavia, luogo in cui la scrittrice attualmente 
risiede. La capitale della Somalia è divisa in cinque vie, che
corrispondono a diversi periodi storici. La quarta via simbolizza
l’attuale guerra civile, che nega i periodi precedenti e rende  necessaria
la speranza in una ‘quinta via’. La prima via, rievocata sulle rive del
Ticino, è il cuore della città, la parte antica, affacciata sull’oceano
indiano e ponte verso l’oriente. Il passato di commerci, scambi culturali,
saperi e odori di spezie è il punto di partenza del percorso verso il
presente. La seconda via parla del periodo coloniale e
dell’Amministrazione Fiduciaria italiana. L’identità  della città e dei
somali si riconfigura proprio nel confronto con il colonialismo e le sue
vie di uscita: la terza via, il periodo del socialismo prima della
dittatura di Siad Barrè. I cortili dell’Università di Pavia offrono
l’occasione di parlare delle speranze dell’indipendenza  e 
del’emancipazione delle donne. Ma il futuro gioca brutti scherzi e diventa
un tuffo nel passato. Parole come clan che sembravano per sempre lasciate
alle spalle, ritornano drammaticamente a ‘informare’ i rapporti tra le
persone. La Quarta Via, che rappresenta il presente di  Mogadiscio e di
cui non è possibile trovare un riscontro a Pavia, conduce alla  lotta 
fratricida e alla distruzione come progetto di vita.  La Quarta Via
risolleva l’attenzione verso un paese che ha condiviso  molte relazioni
storiche con il nostro, ma viene puntualmente  dimenticato  dai media
italiani. La storia di Mogadiscio fa sorgere alcune domande  fondamentali
sulla storia d’Italia, presupponendo che non quest’ultima  possa risultare
limitata, se non distorta, senza considerare la storia  delle colonie e il
cosiddetto periodo ‘postcoloniale’, sul quale vige  tuttora una colpevole
amnesia. Inoltre La Quarta Via vuole presentare  la  storia di una ‘nuova
cittadina’ di un paese che spesso appare sempre più  intollerante e
xenofobo.


SYNOPSIS: Kaha Mohamed Aden narrates her memories of Mogadishu, her birth
city, and reconstructs its story in Pavia, where she currently lives. The
capital of Somalia is divided into five streets, which correspond to
different historical periods. The fourth street symbolizes the actuality
of civil war. This negates the preceding periods and makes it necessary to
hope for  ‘the fifth street’. The film has English subtitles.
Kaha Mohamed Aden was born in Mogadishu (Somalia). She graduated in
Economics at University of Pavia and took her Master degree at the
European School for Advanced Studies in Cooperation and Development-IUSS
in Pavia (Italy). At the moment she is involved in the field of
immigration and intercultural understanding including numerous
conferences, seminars and roundtables throughout Italy. In September 2010,
the first collection of her short stories, Fra-intendimenti, was published
by Nottetempo, Rome.  She also made the oral performances ‘Mettiti nei
miei panni’, ‘La  valigia  della Zia’, ‘Specchio specchio delle mie brame
chi è più abile nel  reame?’ and La Quarta Via. Fra-intendimenti
(Mis-understandings) In 1986 when her father, one of the leading political
figures in contemporary Somalia, had been in prison  for  the last four
years, Kaha Aden left her country, escaping the war that  would ravage
Mogadishu and the whole nation. In Fra-intendimenti the author tells us
about the shots that announced the civil war, the meetings of the wise men
beneath the oak trees, the perfume of ginger and cardamom  in a cup of
tea, child soldiers in khaki trousers, armed to kill. The foundations of
her new life in Pavia, where she studied, are those documents of an
identity that knows nothing about poets, bloodthirsty warriors, ancestral
spirits and tribal legends. A world of domestic servants, catholic
boarding schools, immigration offices, mistrustful landlords, a world in
which black was the colour of prostitution. These stories give voice to a
Somalia of extended families, of matriarchs, of  wise old men, set against
an Italy of contradictions, bureaucracy and  ambiguous welcome. A new
writer, a new eye describing the difficult passage between two worlds that
has become characteristic of our times.


-- 
Dr Federica Mazzara
Teaching and Research Fellow
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UCL
Department of Italian/SELCS
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London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
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