Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Not only are Armando's photographs reminiscent of the universe and nature — they also recall other works of art from history.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Annalena meets up with Paolo Giordano who talks about the trauma of moving from Turin to Rome. Giordano's first novel, La solitudine dei numeri primi (the solitude of prime numbers) from 2008 was made into a popular film of the same name in 2010.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pasolini talks about how he moved from literature to cinema, and how his ideas about language changed. He talked about providing Italians with an opportunity to demonstrate racism, perhaps for the first time, with his movie, Accattone.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In chapter. 7, Armando describes how, to him, his images represent vegetation, woodlands, trees, and flowers.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Chiara tells about how she realized she knew how to read, which then led her to begin writing. She wrote her first "novel" in second grade. Where she grew up, on the outskirts of Rome, influence her writing to a significant degree.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about how artists are always controversial. They are a living protest. His protest involves language and national identity.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this segment, describing chapters 3 - 6, we can imagine storms, volcanoes, oceans, and mountains in Armando's photographs.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Chiara Gamberale talks about how and where she writes, and how her life has changed now that she has a little girl.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about the Italian language and how it has been transformed over the years.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Armando begins describing the structure of his book, and talks about how he envisions a kind of journey, beginning in the far reaches of the universe, down to the tiny details of a flower.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Journalist Annalena Benini introduces us to different writers from different places in Italy, beginning with Rome, where she interviews Chiara Gamberale, a novelist.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about his first book of poetry and what he realized about his country when it was published in 1942. He explains why reviewers wouldn't touch it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Armando tells us how the designs he is fascinated by come to be. It all has to do with billboards, and how they are marked up, torn, and over time, oxidized. The oxidation process is fascinating.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
This documentary opens with some lines from a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini, “10 giugno” from 1962. The famous filmmaker and poet talks about his life, beginning with his troubled relationship with his father.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Little by little, we discover Armando's fascination with oxidation. It seems to have started by looking at advertising billboards.
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