Angela Viora
Angela Viora is an artist and a teacher, lecturing in European Languages (Italian Studies) at Monash University. She is an executive member at the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre and sits on the Brimbank Arts Advisory Committee for Public Art & Community Engagement. She has presented her work internationally, including at the Biennale of Australian Art, the 12th Istanbul Biennial (TK), the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and CO.AS.IT Museo Italiano in Melbourne. Angela has published internationally on performance and public art, artivism, audience reception, and education.
Confidenza, Daniele Luchetti’s latest film, adapted from Domenico Starnone’s novel (2019), was translated as ‘trust’ for this year’s Italian Film Festival, which features an exceptional line-up. However, confidenza doesn’t mean ‘trust’ precisely and can in fact be translated in several ways depending on the context: confiding a secret (fare una confidenza), becoming familiar with s ... (read more)
How to start writing about two films based on polarities – life and death, past and future, childhood and adulthood, loss and hope – that grip your stomach, squeeze your heart, and make you both weep and laugh? I’ll start from a quote by Albert Einstein: ‘The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.’
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Visceral, extreme, beautiful, disturbing, genial, blasphemous, sacred, moving: these are just some of the words commonly used to describe Caravaggio’s art. Viewers will find the same qualities in L’Ombra di Caravaggio (Caravaggio’s Shadow, 2022), the latest film by Italian actor and director Michele Placido, screening nationally as part of the Italian Film Festival.
L’Ombra di Caravaggio ... (read more)