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Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Here’s the British English translation:

The Experimental Centre of Cinematography, as inscribed in its name, is a Research and Training centre in continuous development. The role of the actor in the 21st century is, more than ever before, multifaceted, and the demands and challenges presented require both a solid foundation of heart and technique and great expressive freedom, especially when it comes to Cinema.

Over the years, we have developed a non-dogmatic training approach that allows our student actors to connect with and manage their expressiveness without sacrificing personal freedom, respecting their wonderful creative individuality. The approach is multifaceted and, whilst relying on great training traditions, remains open and continuously responsive to the demands of new languages.

The objective remains lofty: the care and nurturing of the actor’s delicate talent.

The first year sees all subjects directed towards exploration and discovery. Physical training in voice, both spoken and sung, and body work in all its languages, prepare students for Acting training, developing listening skills, interaction, improvisation and text analysis.

The second year focuses on developing and consolidating physical training, and the complex approach to Acting, tackling everything from monologues to scenes, with texts and improvisations varying in period and style.

The third year is the year of verification and consolidation of one’s autonomy: most of the year comprises rehearsals and research, consisting of intensives led by visiting Masters or Directors that enable an active approach for the actor and strengthen their creative contribution.

Particular attention is given to preparation and guidance for entering the professional world, from audition preparation to meetings with casting directors working in different audiovisual sectors, to Masterclasses with authoritative figures from the world of Cinema and Culture.

Film exercises with cameras are integrated into all teachings, which are implicitly designed to strengthen freedom and specific management of Cinema, never sacrificing the cultivation of expressive freedom that is neither formal nor merely aesthetic.

But the true distinctiveness of the Experimental Centre is the presence of all other courses. Interdisciplinarity, collaboration and exchange between different sectors occurs constantly throughout the three years. Beginning with common theoretical lessons, practical exercises follow from the first year onwards, involving acting students with students from Directing and Screenwriting courses, those from Costume or Photography and VFX, in a continuous educational exchange of increasing complexity, working on photographic shoots, productions, short and medium-length films. Students are thus guided to understand and recognise different competencies that grow together, not just within their own classes, but in the common ground of this magnificent group art that is Cinema, often forming artistic teams that will go on to invent the cinema of tomorrow.

Among the lecturers in recent years: Gianni Amelio, Furio Andreotti, Roberto Antonelli, Francesca Archibugi, Valeria Benedetti Michelangeli, Mirella Bordoni, Gianfranco Cabiddu, Ciro and Diego Caravano, Costanza Castracane, Marcello Cotugno, Rossella Della Valle, Massimiliano Dezi, Claudio Giovannesi Mario Grossi, Lenore Lohman, Jinjui Long Daniele Luchetti, Vito Mancusi, Piero Messina, Alessandra Panelli, Silvia Perelli, Eljana Popova, Eros Puglielli, Roberto Romei, David Warren, He Yan. Interdisciplinary lecturers: Sergio Bassetti, Flavio De Bernardinis, Renato Muro, Gianfranco Pannone, Roberto Perpignani, Tommaso Strinati, Gino Ventriglia.

Alba Rohrwacher
Artistic director

Alba Rohrwacher was born in Florence. In 2004, she graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and, since her debut in Carlo Mazzacurati’s L’amore ritrovato, has worked with some of the most important directors of Italian cinema, from Marco Bellocchio (Sorelle mai, Dormant Beauty) to Daniele Luchetti (Mio fratello è figlio unico, The Ties), from Pupi Avati (Giovanna’s Father, David di Donatello award for best actress) to Giorgio Diritti (The Man Who Will Come), from Silvio Soldini (Days and Clouds, David di Donatello award for best supporting actress) to Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) as well as Saverio Costanzo (The Solitude of Prime Numbers and Hungry Hearts, Venice Coppa Volpi for best actress), Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders and Happy as Lazzaro), Laura Bispuri (Sworn Virgin, Daughter of Mine, The Peacock’s Paradise), Nanni Moretti (Three Floors), Paolo Genovese (Perfect Strangers), Emma Dante (A Street in Palermo), Gianni Zanasi (Lucia’s Grace), and Ginevra Elkann (Magari/If Only). She also boasts several ‘forays’ into international cinema and was directed by the likes of Doris Dörrie (Bliss), Nicolas Saada (Taj Mahal), Arnaud Desplechin (Ismael’s Ghosts), Jonathan Nossiter (Last Words), Chloé Mazlo (Skies of Lebanon), and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter). In television, Rohrwacher participated in the series The Miracle, directed by Niccolò Ammaniti, and is the narrator in My Brilliant Friend. She has recently joined Mark Cousins’ project Marcia su Roma and will soon be back in movie theatres as the lead in Jasmine Trinca’s debut behind the camera, Marcel!, and in Roberta Torre’s new film Mi fanno male i capelli.

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