Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide students with skills related to film directing through a study of the practices and an analysis of the expressive tools offered by different staging strategies, retracing different phases of film history and then focusing specifically on contemporary audiovisual productions that are placed in closer dialogue with digital media.
In the first part of the course, the aim is to provide students with skills related to film grammar, with specific attention paid to the main directing techniques (composition of the shots, main camera movements , visual continuity rules, etc.). Several case studies will be analalysed with the aim of identifying multiple stylistic solutions, as well as some simple practical exercises aimed at understanding technical aspects related to the cinematographic framing and camera movements. A specific analysis will be devoted to the work of director Abbas Kiarostami.
In the second part of the course, numerous audiovisual practices that arise from the hybridization between cinema and contemporary digital media will be take into consideration. In this second part, some practices of remediation and "diegetization" of digital devices in contemporary cinema will be analyzed, as well as some specific audiovisual products designed specifically for the web and for a wide circulation and use through different media devices. Specific attention will be devoted to desktop cinema.

Bibliography (being defined):

- Arcangelo Mazzoleni, "L'ABC del linguaggio cinematografico" (Editore Dino Audino)
- Elio Ugenti, "Abbas Kiarostami. Le forme dell'immagine" (Bulzoni Editore)
- Lecture notes edited by the teacher available starting from mid-October

Filmography:

- City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
- Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
- Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955)
- Where is the Friend House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
- And live goes on (Abbas Kiarostami, 1992)
- The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
- Five (Abbas Kiarostami, 2003)
- Roads of Kiarostami (Abbas Kiarostami, 2005)
- Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
- Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
- 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami,  2017)
- Un'ora sola ti vorrei (Alina Marazzi, 2002)
- Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
- Redacted (Brian De Palma, 2007)
- In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
- Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier, 2000)
- Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
- Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze, 2014)
- Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018)
- Watching The Pain of Others (Chloé Galibert-Laîné, 2018)