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23 May, 2024
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia participates in the second edition of Unarchive Found Footage Festival, an event that focuses on the cinematic horizons of the creative reuse of images, with the intent to intercept new and different forms of expression at the threshold between cinema, video art, installations and live performances. Conceived and produced by Archivio
28 August, 2023
CSC – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia to premiere two restored films at the the 80th Venice Film Festival: Mario Soldati’s “La provinciale” and Luchino Visconti’s “Bellissima”International Critics’ Week to present Liliana Cavani’s “Incontro di notte” and Angela Norelli’s “We Should All Be Futurists”Giornate degli Autori to renew their cooperation for the training of CSC students
03 July, 2023
July 4th/16th 2023 Roma, Tempio di Venere e Roma www.fondazionecsc.it clic here for selected photos (more pictures available upon request) “QUO VADIS? Al cinema nel cuore di Roma,” the film event promoted by CSC – Cineteca Nazionale and the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo is back in Rome, from July 4 to 16, 2023,
08 June, 2023
The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia is taking part in Archivissima #6, the first festival dedicated to the promotion and appreciation of historical archives and their holdings to take place in Turin 8th through 11th June, 2023. Among other things, on June 9 the Archivissima Festival will host the sixth run of Archives Night in conjunction
05 April, 2023
XX SECOLO. L’INVENZIONE PIÙ BELLAOctober 24, 2022-June 4, 2023200 masterpieces #soloalcinema Part IVApril 10-June 4 Rome, Cinema Quattro Fontane The fourth part of the retrospective curated by Cesare Petrillo, organized by CSC – Cineteca Nazionale with the support of the Ministry of Culture andin collaboration with Circuito Cinema, is now runningMedia partner: MYmovies The programme
24 March, 2023
On Sunday, March 26th, Tinto Brass celebrates his 90th anniversary. Paying homage to the film director, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia is pleased to announce that Brass’s archive will be deposited at the Cineteca Nazionale and the Biblioteca Luigi Chiarini. After cataloguing, the materials will be available for scholars and viewers. The new archive collection,
06 March, 2023
Shot in the Fall of 1916 and released in theatres a year later, Thais is the only extant film of the four directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia in his early, avant-garde career, in this case along with film director Riccardo Cassano. Considered as a cult movie of Italian Futurism, Thais has survived thanks to an
27 February, 2023
February 28 through March 3, 2023, Los Angeles hosts Filming Italy – Los Angeles #8. With the official recognition of the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the event was created and set up by Tiziana Rocca, Agnus Dei, and the Italian Cultural Institute LA. Filming Italy – Los Angeles promotes the dissemination of Italian culture
10 February, 2023
The catalogue of the Library Luigi Chiarini – one of the most outstanding collections about cinema in the world, holding over 140,000 between books and archival items – has been easily accessible also on smartphones and tablets for years, thanks to the app BiblioChiarini. The update presents new graphics, functions, and customizations. Installing BiblioChiarini, implemented
03 February, 2023
XX SECOLO. L’INVENZIONE PIÙ BELLA October 24, 2022-June 4, 2023200 masterpieces #soloalcinema Part III February 6-April 9 Rome, Cinema Quattro Fontane With the support of the Ministry of Culturein collaboration with Circuito CinemaMedia partner: MYmovies The programme will also screen in Florencein collaboration with the Fondazione Sistema Toscana – Cinema La Compagnia Full Programme (in
30 January, 2023
CSC – Cineteca Nazionale is proud to launch a new collaboration with Fondazione Prada. The monthly programme of Fondazione Prada will include the section Classici, screening restored versions of films that marked the social imaginary. The section kicks off this February with the first three titles, all restored by the Italian National Film Archive, Cineteca
16 January, 2023
With the death of Gina Lollobrigida, who passed away in Rome today, Italy has lost another portion of its film history. In his eulogy on the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia declared that, throughout a century, only three or four poets are born. In over one hundred years of Italian cinema, you can
09 January, 2023
CSC – Cineteca Nazionale, the Italian National Film Archive, will join the 2023 Berlinale in the section “Berlinale Classics” with the world premiere of the restored version of Nanni Moretti’s Sweet Dreams (Sogni d’oro, 1981). Nanni Moretti:“Amazing! “My films are already being restored! I am very pleased that the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca
24 October, 2022
XX SECOLO. L’INVENZIONE PIÙ BELLA October 24, 2022 – June 4, 2023 Rome, Cinema Quattro Fontane The retrospective curated by Cesare Petrillo and promoted by CSC – Cineteca Nazionale is back, with the support of the Ministero della Cultura and in collaboration with Circuito CinemaMedia partner: MYmovies After the first edition’s success, the retrospective XX
18 October, 2022
For the exhibition Pier Paolo Pasolini. TUTTO È SANTOThe Palazzo delle Esposizioni presentsPASOLINI PROSSIMO NOSTROfilm retrospective byAzienda Speciale Palaexpo andCentro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Sala Cinema | 20 October – 08 December 2022 Projections in 35 mm film and DCPdownload the press release of the exhibition FREE ENTRY WITH RESERVATION
18 October, 2022
Issue 603 of “Bianco e nero” has just been released and is dedicated to a couple of artists who represent the best of CSC (as graduates and as teachers). They have made Italian cinema great in the last thirty years: Francesca Calvelli, editor and reference teacher of the editing course at the Centro Sperimentale, and
28 September, 2022
The CSC – Cineteca Nazionale is present at the 17th Festa del Cinema di Roma with the world premiere of the restored film “La porta del cielo”/“The Gates of Heaven” by Vittorio De Sica, and the screening of “Dopoguerra 1920”/“Postwar 1920” (by Mario Chiari, episode 3 of “Amori di mezzo secolo”/“Mid-Century Loves”). CSC – Cineteca
27 September, 2022
LUCIANO SALCE 1922/2022IL CENTENARIO Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa GiuliaPiazzale di Villa Giulia, 9 – RomeAn event organised in collaborationwith ETRU and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografiafrom the 6th to the 27th of October 2022 The opening event takes place today, September 28th, at 7.00 pm, at the Casa del Cinema. Luciano Salce would have turned
CSC – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia at the 79th. Venice Biennale International Film Festival
30 August, 2022
CSC – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia will be present at the 79th. Venice Biennale International Film Festival with the following initiatives that will involve the two main areas of the CSC Foundation: the Cineteca Nazionale and the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema. CSC – Cineteca Nazionale will present in the Venice Classics section with three world
20 July, 2022
CSC – Cineteca Nazionale sarà presente alla 79. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, nella sezione Venezia Classici, con tre restauri in anteprima mondiale: “La marcia su Roma” di Dino Risi, Teresa la ladra” di Carlo Di Palma e La voglia matta” di Luciano Salce. I film saranno l’occasione per rendere omaggio a Monica
12 July, 2022
qui la brochure sfogliabile Torna l’iniziativa promossa dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia d’intesa con la Direzione generale Cinema e audiovisivo del MiC e in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma, la Direzione Musei Statali della Città di Roma con il Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali e il Museo dei
27 June, 2022
The 68th Taormina Film Fest (June 26-July 2) celebrates two great icons of comedy, Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi. The two legendary actors will be remembered by their children, Paola and Gian Marco, with the screening of Alberto Lattuada‘s Venga a prendere il caffè… da noi (Come Have Coffee with Us), starring Tognazzi, and Senza
23 June, 2022
Read or download in PDF A journey through time, in a place where time seems to have stood still, to tell the story of how cinema has dealt with Roman classicism, in a relationship made up of loyalty and betrayal, philological attention and free inspiration, seriousness and disengagement. QUO VADIS? Al cinema nel cuore di
23 June, 2022
The CSC – Cineteca Nazionale is present at Cinema Ritrovato Festival, one of the most important international events dedicated to the appreciation of heritage cinema, promoted by the Cineteca di Bologna, with two important restorations in the section “Ritrovati e restaurati”. On Saturday, June 25, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia will be shown; the restoration was based
04 May, 2022
CSC – Scuola Nazionale di Cinema is proud of the David di Donatello Awards assigned to CSC alumni. To all of them the most heartfelt congratulations from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, which of course congratulates all students, alumni and teachers candidates. Here are the awards: BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUTLaura Samani for PICCOLO CORPO (Small Body) BEST SUPPORTING ACTOREduardo Scarpetta
03 May, 2022
XX SECOLO. L’INVENZIONE PIÙ BELLA (20th Century. The Most Beautiful Invention), the program promoted by the CSC – Cineteca Nazionale, is entering the last stretch of its first, successful edition, a fourth and final part – scheduled from May 9 to June 29 – which will bid farewell to the audiences of Rome and Florence and at the same time
22 April, 2022
On the occasion of the April 25th and the commemoration of the Liberation from Nazi-Fascism, CSC-Cineteca Nazionale with Cinecittà and Cinema Farnese Arthouse, in collaboration with Istituto Romano per la Storia d’Italia dal Fascismo alla Resistenza (IRSIFAR) and ANPI – COMITATO PROVINCIALE DI ROMA – SEZIONE “G. RATTOPPATORE e O. CIAI” are pleased to present
09 April, 2022
One hundred years after his birth, the exhibition Vittorio Gassman – Il Centenario (“Vittorio Gassman – The Centenary”, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome from April 9 to June 29, then at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa) is a tribute in which the CSC could not fail to participate, because Gassman was truly one of the most beloved actors in our
08 April, 2022
From April 12 to September 4, don’t miss Il video rende felici. Videoarte in Italia (“Video Makes You Happy – Video Art in Italy”, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna and Palazzo delle Esposizioni): not a simple exhibition, but the first survey ever carried out in our country on the production of video art and arthouse cinema, one of the most interesting areas
27 February, 2022
The FIAF – International Federation of Film Archives, founded in 1938, is a network that brings together institutions from all over the world aimed at the collection, conservation, and dissemination of the entire world cinema. The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) expresses their deep concern for the wellbeing of their
09 February, 2022
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale is proud to open the celebrations for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 100th birth anniversary with a digital restoration (4K) of MAMMA ROMA which will be presented in world premiere on Friday Feb 11th at the 72th Berlinale (Cinemax, 7pm) The restoration was curated by CSC – Cineteca Nazionale from
15 May, 2020
Art Bonus, it is a measure of the Ministero dei Beni Culturali that represents an important novelty in the field of liberal donations applied to cultural heritage. A great opportunity to enhance the Italian historical and artistic heritage.
15 May, 2020
The Board of Directors of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia announces that the publication of the admissions announcements for the three-year period (2021-2023) of all courses will take place in January 2021.