#EuropeForCulture.
Within
the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, AMA Cimiteri
Capitolini, the municipal company that manages the cemeteries of
Rome, including the Verano Monumental Cemetery, joins the Week of
Discovering European Cemeteries, promoted by the ASCE, with the
program of cultural paths about cinema, theater and visual arts.
Cultural
paths about cinema, theater and visual arts
1,
2 and 3 of June
The
Verano Monumental Cemetery, with its rich heritage of art and with
the burials of hundreds of illustrious figures of the artistic,
historical, literary, musical and cinematographic world, stands as an
open-air museum that is unparalleled in quantity and peculiarity of
the testimonies.
From
1 to 3 June, many initiatives are dedicated to the world of cinema,
theater and visual arts. And the artists who are the protagonists of
those worlds are re-visited with narratives and tributes to their
tombs and their works, which have given Italian culture so much
luster.
In
the collective consciousness, Rome is perceived also as the “city
of cinema” and the program of the event wants to underline its
uniqueness through the remembrances of its key figures: directors,
screenwriters, actors, composers of soundtracks, etc., who have made
the italian cinema great: Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Carlo
Lizzani, Sergio Amidei, Alberto Sordi, Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio
Gasmann, Marcello Mastroianni, Eduardo De Filippo, Nino Manfredi,
Nino Rota, Manuel De Sica… and many other artists buried in the
Verano Cemetery.
A
reflection about the theme opens the program of the event, which
includes the presentation of a novelty in the panorama of cemetery
publishing: Verano. Artists' Paradise (Ponte Sisto Editions, 2017).
Followed
by themed guided tours about cinema, theater and visual arts in
general, such as painting, sculpture, decorative arts.
To
conclude the event is the Cineforum Admirabilis, at the Sala Mater
Admirabilis in Verano Cemetery, which hosts a special tribute to
Roberto Rossellini, on the 41st anniversary of his death (3 June
1977), with the screening of the movie by director Carlo Lizzani
“Celluloide”, the biopic dedicated to Rossellini and his
masterpiece “Rome, open city”.
Free
participation for all initiatives, subject to availability, with
reservations required by contacting the Organizing Secretariat at the
phone number +39 348 4051592.
AMA
Cimiteri Capitolini presents its programme for WDEC 2018 on this link