Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2006 Sommario / Contents

pretentious) name is inspired by a historic medieval religio-philosophical seminar which took place in the city, and implies the Collegium’s
unconventional experiment in the technique of study. It is designed to take advantage of the unique conditions of the Giornate – a highly
concentrated one-week event; the possibility to see an extensive collection of rare archival films; the presence in one place and at one time of
many (perhaps most) of the world’s best qualified experts in film history – scholars, historians, archivists, collectors, critics, academics, and just
plain enthusiasts. Rejecting the conventional “summer school” style of a formal teaching programme, the Collegium returns to a fundamental,
classical concept of study, in which the impetus is the students’ curiosity and inquiry. Instead of formal lectures and panels, the daily sessions
are designed as “Dialogues”, in the Platonic sense, when the collegians sit down with groups of experts in different disciplines. The Dialogues are
designed not just to elicit information and instruction, but to allow the collegians to make direct personal and social connection with the Giornate
habitués and to discover them as peers whom they can readily approach, in the course of the week, for supplementary discussion.
To focus their inquiry, the members of the Collegium collaborate on the production of a collection of papers on themes emerging from or inspired
by the experience of the week. Each collegian is required to contribute an essay, and the criterion is that the principal source must be the Giornate
programme, or conversation and interviews with the scholars and experts to whom the week facilitates access. It has to be, in short, a work that
could not have been produced without the Giornate experience. The first seven collections of the Collegium Papers are already published. The
quality of the individual essays is inevitably uneven, but the best of them reveal a fresh spirit in film history writing, exploring new forms and
rejecting the lazy deployment of jargon and unreflecting citation that often disfigures student writing. The Collegium Papers at their best are far
more than a student exercise, but fresh, useful, and revealing reading.
ll programma dei dialoghi 2006 è il seguente / The programme for the 2006 Collegium Dialogues is:
Domenica/Sunday 8 Riscoperte stellari. Le stelle fanno i film o i film, le stelle?
Stellar Rediscoveries - Did the Stars Make the Movies, or the Movies Make the Stars?
Lunedì/Monday 9 Ince, Griffith e noi
Ince, Griffith and Us
Martedì/Tuesday 10 Conservare al tempo del “content”
Curatorship in the Age of Content
Mercoledì/Wednesday 11 Restauro digitale ed esperienza del film
Digital Restoration and Film Experience
Giovedì/Thursday 12 La magia nel cinema
Magic in film
Veenrdì/Friday 13 Il secolo Nordisk: il programma delle Giornate 2006
The 2006 Programme / The Nordisk Century
Sabato/Saturday 14 Nuovi approcci al “copyright” e al “fair use”.
Tavola rotonda sui lavori FIAF
New Deals on Copyright and Fair Use
Round Table on the FIAF Report
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