Università Roma Tre

The course will follow a chronological path through the history of documentary film through some keywords. The historiographical path structured in a chronological way will be articulated through some thematic articulations concerning above all the ethical questions (representability or irrapresentability of some aspects of the real) in relation to the starting reality and the social actor, the performative and authorial issue of documentary cinema and the question of spectator reception. The chosen filmography follows an exemplary path both from the historical and thematic point of view.
The course also includes some meetings with professionals in the documentary sector in order to put students directly in touch with the professions of cinema.

Bibliography:
Maria Cristina Lasagni, Nanook cammina ancora-Il cinema documentario, storia e teoria, Bruno Mondadori Editore, Milano, 2014
Extra texts could be downloaded at the beginning of the class from Moodle.

FILMOGRAPHY:
Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North (1922)
Dziga Vertov, L’uomo con la macchina da presa (1929)
Joris Ivens, Regen (1929)
Vittorio De Seta, Lu tempu de li pisci spata (1954)- Isole di fuoco (1954)
Autori Vari, Amore in città (episodio Storia di Caterina) (1952)
Jean Rouch-Edgar Morin, Chronique d’un été (1960).
Cecilia Mangini, Stendalì (1960)
Gianfranco Mingozzi, La taranta (1962)
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (1982)
Alina Marazzi, Un'ora sola ti vorrei (2002)
Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man (2005)
A.Ferrente-G.Piperno, Le cose belle (2012)
Nanni Moretti, Santiago, Italia (2018)
Sara Dosa, Fire of Love (2022)