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Dear all,
I am writing to let you know about the next UCL Italian Departmental Research Seminar, which is
Wednesday 27 November 2013, 6:00 p.m.
Arts and Humanities Staff Common Room, Foster Court G24 (Ground Floor)
Cristina Massaccesi (University College London)
“The Italian who invented Free Cinema: Lorenza Mazzetti’s ‘K’ and ‘Together’ ”
Lorenza Mazzetti made her first film
K in 1954 while studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 1956, with the support of the Slade and the BFI, she completed “Together” with fellow students Michael Andrews and Eduardo Paolozzi in the roles of the two deaf-mute dockworkers living
in the still semi-destroyed London’s East End. “Together” was one of the films screened at the first Free Cinema event at the NFT in 1956. In line with Free Cinema’s focus on subjectivity and poetic freedom, Mazzetti’s films reject traditional cinematic conventions
and give life to a fascinating combination of Neorealist practices, radical documentary cinema and ‘Kitchen Sink’ drama.
As a woman and a foreigner in a British male-dominated world, Lorenza Mazzetti’s early works open up many questions
about the relationship between British and Italian avant-garde cinema in the 1950s.
The talk will be followed by the screening of K and Together.
ALL WELCOME