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Appointment this evening, at 8.40pm, at the Tinni Tinni Arts Club in via Scuto. The screening is free of charge
Gentrification. This is the theme of the third and final appointment, scheduled for today evening, May 9, 2024, at 8.40 pmwith “Excitement at the cinema”, the film club that takes place in Cataniato the Tinni Tinni Arts Club in via Scuto. The collective organizes it Urban fermentin collaboration with the Tinni Tinni Arts Club itself and with Magma – short film exhibitionthe Acireale short film festival.
The theme of gentrification will be addressed thanks to the screening of the feature film “The last black man in San Francisco”, by Joe Talbot (2019). The story is that of the nephew of Jimmiea black man who built one of the finest Victorian homes in the neighborhood Fillmore of San Francisco. It is around the evolution of that neighborhood that the story of the film is built: if that area of the Californian city was once a flourishing center for black culture, in the years in which Jimmie’s nephew lives it has become a neighborhood destined mainly for the rich .
“Excitement at the cinema” is a film club imagined to talk about cities, not just Catania, as complex systems. Environment, mobility, inequalities, speculation: these are just some of the topics discussed, also through the commentary on the projections, during “creative debates”. Occasions, that is, in which the spectators in the room will become part of collective reasoning. The reflection on what it means to “be a city” passes, first of all, from the attribution of meaning to “being a community”.
The first screening, with free admission, i.e. without the payment of any admission ticket, took place on March 14th with the screening of the film “Hands on the city”, dated film 1963directed by Francesco Rosi. There Naples of the sixties it was the backdrop for talking about building speculation, illegal construction and evictions of popular areas.
The theme of the right to housing was addressed thanks to three short films: “Habitat”, by Ina Georgieva (2013); “The homes we were”, by Arianna Lodeserto (2018); And “The wild state“, Of Carlo Lo Giudice (2018). The Judge, class 1968born in Catania, was a guest in the room: his film tells the story of the Etna capital starting from the story of a man, Giovanni Cutuli, cellar emptyer, forced to deal with an eviction order. He will then have to vacate the house where he lives with his wife and two children.
A debate will also be linked to this screening. During the discussion, participants will be given a postcard, on the back of which will be transcribed an inspirational idea reasoning on the topic discussed. So that the reflection doesn’t stop, not even when you return home.
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