The summer festival organized by the EuroArab Institute of Mazara del Vallo entitled “Mediterranean Dialogues, not just books” starts tomorrow, Tuesday 2 August. Thus the president of the Institute, prof. Giovanni Isgrò, describes the review that includes five appointments, until August 20: “an original review between cinema and literature, an intertwining of different themes that span centuries of Mediterranean culture, from. Middle Ages to contemporary cinema between Sicily and Africa, is that of the epic of the greatest Sicilian comedian of the 1930s.“. Here is the program of the review:
Tuesday 2 August 2022 9.00 pm Seminary Cloister: “A rainbow of prayers”, by Melo Minnella, Di Lorenzo Editore. They converse with the author Antonino Cusumano and Leo Di Simone. In this book there is the testimony of the prayer of peoples and cultures with different spiritualities, through the presentation of photographs capable of showing the difference, the multiple incarnations of prayer, and at the same time suggesting how all prayers can really flow underground. in a single flow that starts from the heart of every man and expands not only on humanity, but even on the whole cosmos. Musical moment: Ippolito Parrinello – Piano.
Friday 5 August 2022 9.00 pm San Vito Foundation: “Siciliani d’Africa. Tunisia promised land “, film by Marcello Bivona and Alfonso Campisi. Dialogue with the Authors Antonino Cusumano. The documentary tells the story of the Sicilian community in Tunisia during the French protectorate and the relationship between the different communities that managed to coexist peacefully despite religious, cultural and linguistic differences, until the country’s independence. A page of history common to Tunisia, France and Italy, often little known and in some hidden way. The images tell the story of Tunisia between yesterday and today.
Monday 8 August 2022 9.00 pm Seminary Cloister: “The eye on the top of the tree and other stories. Mysteries and legends of the Sicilian sea “, by Ninni Ravazza, Magenes Editore. Dialogue with the author Antonino Cusumano. Of dark and threatening presences that coexist with the daily life of fishermen and of cognitive and perceptive strategies that draw on the plans of empiricism and magic Ninni Ravazza – who knows the depths of the sea and the lives of the men who have crossed, sailed, ‘cultivated’ – has collected in this volume testimonies, memories, small stories, fragments of the microcosm investigated at length by the author. Musical moment: Manuel and Gianni Burriesci – Violinists.
Tuesday 9 August 2022 9.00 pm Seminary Cloister: “Adelasia Comitissa and Regina: Adelasia’s dream”, by Antonino Gancitano, published by Amazon Libri. Dialogue with the Author Leo Di Simone. The probable tale of a distant story: of Adelasia del Vasto (1073-1118) of the Marquises Aleramici, third wife (1089) of the Great Count Ruggero d’Altavilla, Comitissa and then unfortunate Queen (1113) of Jerusalem, finally divorced bride (1117) di Baldovino I King of Jerusalem and mother of Roger II (1130) of Sicily.
Saturday 20 August 2022 at 9.00 pm Italian Naval League – Mazara del Vallo: “Càspeta, Angelo Musco’s cinema”, by Nino Genovese and Mario Patanè – Iacobelli Editore. Dialogue with N. Genovese Giovanni Isgrò. Angelo Musco’s films, produced in the 1930s, are the only remaining documentation of the comic art of the great Sicilian actor. The essay, edited by Antonino Genovese and Mario Patanè, highlights the importance of filmic testimonies, without neglecting significant aspects of Angelo Musco’s artistic life, in order to bring his memory to life.
Musco’s film career is retraced here through the voices of about fifteen critics and historians. In the volume there are also some precious articles that appeared in the press between ’22 and ’37 signed by the Sicilian actor. All of Musco’s films, with the exception of San Giovanni decollato of 1917, still unobtainable today, have recently been restored by the National Film Archive. At the end of the film screening: “Think about it, Giacomino”.
Francesco Mezzapelle
Mazara, the summer review of the EuroArabo Institute has started