| June-July 1998 - N. 3 executive director Natalia Encolpio associate editor Loretta Lorenzini Il Cenacolo at the Ecosoc of United Nations Second International
Festival of Cinematography and Movie Therapy
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In the picture: Loretta Lorenzini (on the left), Hanifa Mezoui, Chief Non-Governamental Organizations Section/DESA Natalia Encolpio at the Un during the Commitee on Ngo |
July 1998 The International Association Il Cenacolo has become an Ngo in Special Consultative Status at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The president Loretta Lorenzini and the vice president Natalia Encolpio have been invited to partecipate, the 22t of june, at the Session of the Commitee on Non Governamental Organizations. The International Association Il Cenacolo in New York:phone and fax: (001.212).420.73.47 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] |
Second
International
Festival of Cinematography and Movie Therapy
Starting a new method of analysis for film images
Paris, 25-26 September, Unesco Palace
Images and emotions from Africa were the protagonists of the "Second
International Festival of Cinematography and Movie Therapy", which took place in Paris
last 25th and 26th September.Films were screened to tell about one continent and its
people as well as to try and understand the relationship between images ad emotions, after
the method of Movie Therapy, a quite new technique of analysing film images The two days film
screening was employed as a means to approach and understand - if possible - both the
problems and the great potential resources of the African continent and its
people.discussions took place between members of the audience and the films' directors,
the aim of the Festival itself being, in fact, to educate to images and to the close
relationship existing between the film and the emotions experienced by the onlookers.
The Festival was organized by the Association "Il Cenacolo" (an NGO in
special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations)
and by the FESPACO ("the panafrican Festival of Cinema and Television of
Ougadougou") the most important world film show, dedicated to African Cinema.It took
place in the UNESCO Building, Place de Fontenoy,7, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary
of the "International Council of Cinema, Television and Audio-visual
Communication" (CICT).
Five films by African directors were shown and analysed in the presence of both
their authors (Pierre Yameogo, Abdoul Dragoss Ouedraogo, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Deni Kouyate,
Mannsour Sora Wade) and two psychotherapists, prof. Loretta Lorenzini, president of "Il Cenacolo" and Prof, Michel Meignant, the president of the
European Psychotherapy Association.
In the end the round table held on the 26th September at 8 p.m. was attended by
Baba Hama, the General Secretary of the "Panafrican Festival of Cinema and Television
of Ougadougou" and by Robert Kalman, the General Secretary of the "International
Council of Cinema, Television and Audio-visual Communication" (CICT).
The last day of the Festival was dedicated to the problems of African young people
A short by young Italian directors was projected and also the "Gruppo Alcuni"
presented his project "CIAK JUNIOR"- cinema for young people": young
authors working on the research of new links with Africa of the coming years.
Movie Therapy
By Gioia Gabellieri
Cinematographic fantasies touch something deep inside us because they are guided by the director's dynamic, unconscious logic, able to produce precise determinism in inner life and therefore in human existence. To be able to understand the natural code of the image has always been the goal of those involved in the visual and communicative arts, and today this scientific, cultural and social need is increasingly apparent because we are immersed in an "image civilization". In fact, the epistemological crisis of contemporary life is reflected in the blind use of power of images; blind because it abandoned to inspirations and canons without any guarantee of anthropological functionalism. The Iso Ontism has discovered the enormous force of the images within the psyche and has identified the natural code for interpreting any symbol relating to man. It teaches us how to access the authentic meaning (or action) transmitted by the image beyond any debatable social-cultural analysis of cinematography in over twenty years of practical research, Iso Ontism has developed an exact critical instrument. Today it is usable by those professionals working with images who wish to place themselves at the service of personal and collective anthropological functionalism, rather than merely promoting the complexes of social unconsciousness. Movie Therapy is a particular method of introspection into the world of film images. It permit the exact interpretation of the symbolic meaning and intrinsic dynamic and communicative power of the film by using Iso ontic discoveries on the causal connections linking the image to psychic energy of the human being. Movie Therapy represents an original contribution to the culture of the image beyond technological developments. As acquisition of higher culture with regard to the real motivations underlying the construction of images, cinelogy provides specialized competence in the field of cinematographic production, contributing to the construction of a new cinema the exposure of man's true essence.