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PressPausePlay: a film about hope, fear and digital culture

links:
- www.presspauseplay.com
- PressPausePlay youtube channel

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The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.

The creative landscape is changing. Some talk about a revolution. Others talk about a natural evolution. These changes affect everything. From creation to distribution, from artist to consumer.

video: PressPausePlay Official Trailer

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Need endorphins? I make use of Handel. Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno

Interesting. They do the same strange things I do when listening to Handel. Run. Move your arms. Smile. Pure joy, pure endorphins.

Have a good sunday.

video: Natalie Dessay, Emmanuelle Haim – Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (Handel)
Natalie Dessay, Ann Hallenberg, Sonia Prina, Pavol Breslik / Le Concert dAstrée, Emmanuelle Haim

txt: Wikipedia – Endorphin

Endorphins (“endogenous morphine”) are endogenous opioid peptides that function as neurotransmitters. They are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm, and they resemble the opiates in their abilities to produce analgesia and a feeling of well-being.

txt: GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL – IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO

Bellezza: Dicesti il vero, e benché tardi intesi. Ma pur, nel mio cordoglio, con riflesso di duol, voglio e non voglio. Voglio Tempo per risolvere…
Tempo: Teco è il Tempo…
Disinganno: ed il Consiglio…
Piacere: ma il Consiglio è il tuo dolor.
Tempo: Pria ch’io ti converto in polvere, segui il ben…
Disinganno: fuggi il periglio…
Piacere: tempo avrà per cangiar cor.

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55th Contemporary Music International Festival of Venice

24 September > 1 October 2011
link: Program – 55th International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Biennale di Venezia

txt: MUTANTI is the title of the 55th International Festival of Contemporary Music

We live in a world that makes not only thought, exploration and effort, but pencil and paper, practice and crafting as well, seem anachronistic. Now that everything is available at the click of a mouse, the temptation of erasing our memory is becoming increasingly evident, as we dream of becoming lighter. The 2011 Music Biennale talks about mutants, about something that is ending, at least in the form familiar to us now, to become something else.

video: Music Biennale 2010 – Susanna Mälkki on Berio

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Venice Film Festival 2011: keep on dreaming

The 68th Venice International Film Festival – August 31 to September 10 2011.

link: www.labiennale.org

Venice, SALA DARSENA 5 Sept. 4:30 p.m.
GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI – VENICE DAYS
IO SONO LI by Andrea Segre (Italy, France, 96’, language: Italian, Chinese, s/t English/Italian) cast: Zhao Tao, Rade Sherbedgia, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston

txt: IO SONO LI – yolefilm on vimeo

Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome in order to get her papers and
enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman, nicknamed “the Poet” by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years. Their encounter is a poetic escape from solitude, a silent dialogue between cultures that are different, yet not more distant. It is an odyssey into the deep heart of a lagoon, which can be both the mother and cradle of identities, which never keep still.
But the friendship between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and local communities, who interfere with this new voyage, which they are perhaps simply too afraid
of.

video: IO SONO LI – yolefilm on vimeo

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Venice is a place of wonders, and sounds. Sometimes.

You walk out from the babel of the station, fast. Go beyond the Calatrava bridge, it’s half past eight, it’s August. There is still light. Even the noises of buses and the street talks of piazza Roma are behind. You walk slower inside the Dorsoduro, the voices dispersed. It’s a beautiful evening, a warm evening. Fondamenta delle Terese, then the bridge and Campo San Nicolò. And you hear this music, coming out from a window. Sit on a bench to listen it all. What else can you do? Venice is a city of wonders. And sounds. Sometimes.
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Esci dalla babele della stazione, veloce. Oltrepassi a passi lunghi il ponte di Calatrava, sono le otto e mezza di sera, è agosto. C’è ancora luce. Anche il rumore di autobus e le ciacole di piazza Roma sono alle spalle. Cammini più lento dentro a Dorsoduro, le voci si disperdono. E’ una bella serata, tiepida. Fondamenta delle Terese, superi il ponte e sei in campo San Nicolò. E senti questa musica, uscire da una finestra. Ti siedi su una panchina, per ascoltarla tutto. Cosa altro puoi fare? Venezia è una città di meraviglie. E di suoni. A volte.

video: Cecilia Bartoli – Ombra Mai Fu – opening aria from the opera “Serse” by George Frideric Handel.

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