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Dear Colleagues,
Please see below a reminder for an event taking place at UCL tomorrow
afternoon. There are still a few places available. Send me an email to
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Cristina
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Dear I-S members,
UCL's Italian Department and the Slade School of Fine Art are pleased to
announce the following event:
A conversation with Lorenza Mazzetti
Including rare screenings of her two London films
*K* (1954) and *Together* (1956)
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*Thursday 14 March 2013*
Birkbeck Viewing Theatre
46 Gordon Square London WC1 0PH
3.00 - 5.30 pm
As a student at the Slade School of Fine Art Lorenza Mazzetti made her
first film *K* based on Kafka’s*Metamorphosis,* featuring fellow student
Michael Andrews as Gregor Samsa. With support from the Slade Professor
William Coldstream and the director of the BFI, Denis Forman, Mazzetti was
financed by the BFI Experimental Film Fund to make *Together,* with Eduardo
Paolozzi and Michael Andrews as deaf-mute dockworkers in London’s
bomb-damaged East End. *Together* was shown at the first Free Cinema event
at the NFT in 1956. With its credo of subjectivity, poetic freedom and the
elevation of the everyday, Free Cinema brought Mazzetti into contact with
figures such as Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, Walter
Lassally and John Fletcher. In its pronounced rejection of theatrical
cinematic conventions, Free Cinema’s relationship with Italian neorealism,
radical British documentary and ‘Kitchen Sink’ drama, situates it at a
contested but fascinating point within post–war British culture. As an
Italian woman in a predominantly male domain, working at the cusp of the
profound social and cultural shifts later associated with the 1960’s,
Mazzetti offers unique insights into the creative and intellectual
ambitions of the Free Cinema Movement in Britain.
Mazzetti returned to Italy in 1956 where she made documentary films and
wrote two novels. Her 1961 novel *Il Cielo Cade* (*The Sky Falls,*) based
on her traumatic childhood wartime experiences, was made into the 2000 film
directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi, starring Isabella Rossellini. She
worked collaboratively for many years in puppet theatre and continues to
paint prolifically. *London Diaries* –Mazzetti’s account of her time in
England will be published by Sellario in Italy later this year. She lives
and works in Rome.
The event is sponsored by Figs, the Slade School of Fine Art, the Society
for Italian Studies and Central St Martins.
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Dr Cristina Massaccesi
Teaching Fellow & Language Coordinator
School of European Languages, Culture and Society
Italian Department
University College London
Gower Street WC1E 6BT London
Phone: 020 7679 3022
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