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X_Science. Cinema between Science and Science Fiction

Genoa, 2-3-4 May 2007, Second Edition
Free admission

Science and Science Fiction film, a strange union for some but not for the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences University of Genoa and the Genoa Film Festival (Cultural Association Daunbailò), who join forces to carry out the second edition of X_Science: Cinema between Science and Science Fiction . With the support of Regione Liguria, Provincia di Genova, Genoa City, Festival of Science and with the collaboration of Fandango, Warner Bros, Lab80 and Archives of Genova Film Festival.

Between 2 and 4 May Genoa, after the great success of last year's X_Science, it is proposed again to the forefront of world science with an event aimed at an audience more alert, curious and eager to understand. The second edition of
X_Science: Cinema between Science and Science Fiction will be held in Genoa at the Cinema Unstable and is enriched with matinee (from 10 to 12) for schools at the Museum of Natural Sciences of Genoa.
L 'Admission is free subject to availability.

The event is divided into five "branches":
X_Premiere: preview feature films and TV
X_Shorts: national competition of short films and science fiction, with a program on the outside (Fanta) statistical
X_Feature: feature films
Matinee : screenings for schools at the Museum of Natural Science
The Night of Science Fiction: Masterpieces of American science fiction films of the fifties

The program, on the evening of Wednesday, May 2nd, the preview screening of Dark Resurrection anticipated film directed by Imperia and Angelo Licata Davide Bigazzi, committed by some years in the realization of this work inspired by George Lucas' universe . The authors present the film, the screening of calls to availability (for info segreteria@genovafilmfestival.it).

Another preview, Friday, May 4, the first night of the Sci-Fi, for Invaxön, aliens from space, the brand new show created by Massimo Morini Enzo Pirrone and the tireless members of Buio Pesto Jimmy, Sky satellite channel dedicated to science fiction after the success of the film released in 2004. The public can preview X_Science 4 episodes of 25 minutes of entertaining show that has the participation of major guest stars like Dario Vergassola and Captain tense. The authors present the show.

X_Shorts, the competition for short films to , sees competing eight works by as many authors from all over Italy that will be projected on the evening of Thursday, May 3 and rewarded by the public in the next evening.

X_Feature propose two feature films released this year in Italian cinemas unfairly passed almost unnoticed: in collaboration with Warner Bros will be presented A Scanner Darkly - A dark scan (Wednesday, May 2nd, 22:30) and Richard Linklater's documentary masterpiece from Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man (Thursday, May 3rd, 22:30), presented in association with Fandango.

Night Science Fiction, which will take place from 24:00 on Friday 4, will be a true white night dedicated this year to the masterpieces of American science fiction films of the fifties.
Day the Earth (The Day the Earth Stood Still, USA, 1951) Robert Wise
The experiment of Dr. K (The Fly, USA, 1958) by Kurt Neumann
Incredible, Shrinking Man (The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957) by Jack Arnold

The presentations of the film will be edited by members of the Organizing Committee X_Science which are: the Faculty of Science - Maurizio Martelli (Dean), Marilena Carnasciali, Teo Mora and Paul Picard; for Genova Film Festival - Cristiano Palozzi and Antonio Sica

Info: Tel 010.5573958 segreteria@genovafilmfestival.it

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Sunshine

Nothing new on the horizon ... even the Sun

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Sunshine Director: Danny Boyle
Year: 2007
Production: Great Britain
Length: 108 min.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 6

Year 2057. Do not know why (scientific data in hand it should work even a few billion years), but the Sun is shutting down. The hypothesis although unlikely (but we science fiction fans regard this matter) is always fascinating and poses (or could create) the basis for an endless series of questions: questions that inevitably can not find answers. The only and last chance
salvation of the Earth lies in the attempt to reactivate the vital functions of our star through the dropping of an atomic bomb powerful (made with all the latest nuclear resources available on Earth) live in its core. That's the mission
Icarus II, consisting of a crew of seven astronauts young scientists, navigate to the dying time of the star with the weight of responsibility can not fail. Sunshine
reunited after five years and some of the elements that will decide the success of after 28 days (and that's good) is the producer Andrew Macdonald, the well-established actor Cillian Murphy and screenwriter Alex Garland (Which has realized the script for 28 days after it was, alas, also the author of The beach ... and this is not good).
is clear that the director likes a certain type of fiction (let's say that most elegant of 2001, for example) and the scientific and verosomiglianza is clear that there was a great job focusing on expert advice and great preparation technique that involved all the cast, the manager of photography (Alwin Kuchler) than that of scenery. His statements also would suggest that you are faced with something like this: " the question of what would happen to our minds when they meet the creator of the universe that for some people is a spiritual or religious concept, for others it is purely scientific idea. We are all made of particles of exploded stars , and how it would get so close to the sun, the star from which comes the life of the solar system? "
If the intention of Danny Boyle was to create an unprecedented space odyssey, capable of giving new life to the science fiction author, dressed by complex psychological nuances in the balance between philosophy and theology, we regret to declare the experiment failed .
If, otherwise, stripping Sunshine every ambition too pretentious, the aim would be to produce a classic film series B that, when drawing heavily from films such as 2001, A Space Odyssey, Alien and Solaris, tends to resemble more a Event Horizon, then: Icarus II, mission accomplished!
should be emphasized, however, always the original style "youth" of the English, a perfectly fitting variable in the service of the storyline, and its recognized ability to use music, composed entirely by Underworld (those of the smash "Born Slippy "from Trainspotting soundtrack ) than with a mix of electronic and minimalist post-rock give the film a touch of pathos more.
If you like the stories of ships lost in space who are facing a series of unpleasant surprises, then Sunshine is the film for you, otherwise look elsewhere for your Sun

David Battaglia

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Roger Dean

When the fantasy meets art and music

as Roger Dean might just say to fans of art, but it should say much (at least in theory) to fans of a certain type of rock.
The music complex, intellectual, redundant and often dictated the epic mode, and the rules at the beginning of the 70s (now called progressive ) is accompanied perfectly metaphorical and fantastic art by artists such as Paul Whitehead (illustrator of the covers of Genesis), Hypnosis (author of the graphic cover of Pink Floyd) and, above all, by Roger Dean who has linked his name ( and its success), especially that of Yes. Dean
In art, as well as progressive rock music, you can easily grasp the meeting between the remote past and future and cohabitation (often also antithesis) between tradition and innovation.
Many groups, in fact, combining sounds and instruments of ancestral origin in extreme forms of experimentation in electronics that were a source almost inexhaustible source of discoveries. No coincidence that the prog-rock was fishing with both hands from both classical music that the modern jazz.
The colors, characters and imaginary forms that populated the covers of those discs were then depictions of fantastic worlds projected by music. Music that time has proven to be utopian and that, as in fantasy and science fiction, tells of worlds defined as "land of dreams."
Roger Dean embodies the dream: its images are characterized by great harmony, a sense of peace and serenity and a purely fabulous.
His style, made of images and colors twilight soft embodies a search for content that recurs in all his work by giving him a real trademark (note that also earned him some criticism) and who often do not even have a deep rooted relationship with the disk even if it always manages to capture the essence.
Dean is English, born 1944, son of a soldier, his father's work meant he had to live for most of his childhood and his youth around the world, bringing environments to meet diverse and exotic landscapes that have, probably influenced his imagination and his vision of art.
Back home, he graduated as a designer at the Canterbury School of Art, while in 1968 graduated from the Royal College of Art London.
In those years he worked in the music industry making the album cover for a group called Gun, and soon after, one for Africans Osibisa. It was the latter work to attract the attention of the already popular Yes it took for the graphic representation of what would become their first masterpiece: Fragile . We
in 1972 and this work, which still remains one of the most beautiful and complex of its production, shows a sort of globe full of water and vegetation action (two recurring elements in his works so much to do alongside the nascent New Age movement) by a flying object flew over the ancient and at the same time, post-modern invention that is very reminiscent of Leonardo Da Vinci , perhaps a hint of experimentation and invention that they were Yes trying with their music.
Thereafter Dean will become almost a member of the group taking care of loved almost all of the covers of Yes, inventing the beautiful and famous logo and choreographing their many concerts. The world of progressive music should, however, much to the English artist who counted among his collaboration over time, even that of many other major groups such as Uriah Heep, Gentle Giant (how can we forget the spectacular octopus album "Octopus") and Asia.
Personally, one of the jobs that I appreciate most is the inside cover of the album poster (of Yes, but 70's rock, as well as that historical period) " Close to the Edge", which is opposed to disarming simplicity of the exterior, as if to underline that the most important aspect of this disc lies inside: music, indeed. Close to the Edge is a paradoxical landscape of a waterfall where the water rushes in all directions and where the rocks "float" suspended in the air.
A witness to the thoroughness and preparation this should be remembered as an artist engages in contemplating the use of different techniques of watercolor, the china, charcoal, collage and how it is distinct also in projects as an interior and exterior, where there is the harmony and anarchy forms of his paintings.
to admire his work is recommended to recover the volumes Views , 1975, and Magnetic Storm of 1984, or pay a visit to his website www.rogerdean.com
good trip at all.

David Battaglia