SUMMER AT MAXXI L’AQUILA – Abruzzo Popular

Books and cinema in the court. Appointments of the week. Wednesday 26 June, 9pm Cinema Castelrotto by Damiano Giacomelli, the director intervenes. Thursday 27 June, 7pm Books The green tangle. Inhabiting forests from the Mesozoic to science fiction by Danilo Zagaria. Friday 28 June, 9pm Cinema Zamora by Neri Marcorè

L’Aquila, 26 June 2024. Three evenings this week for Summer at MAXXI L’Aquila | Books and cinema in the courtyard, the museum’s public program with events dedicated to cinema and books, hosted in the courtyard of Palazzo Ardinghelli and created in collaboration with the L’Aquila Film Festival and the University of L’Aquila, I mercoledì della cultura and with the patronage of the Municipality of L’Aquila.

All events are free to enter while places last.

Furthermore, on Friday 28 June, from 11am, MAXXI L’Aquila inaugurates the new exhibition Architecture and cities in the Horn of Africa A shared heritage curated by MAXXI Architettura with Andrea Mantovano and presents the street furniture project for Piazza Santa Maria Paganica Via Vai – created in collaboration with the University of L’Aquila – and the exhibition project Second Order reality by the artist Carola Bonfili promoted by the Italian Council.

CINEMA Two evenings are dedicated to the seventh art as part of the Visioni Primarie review, a selection of debut Italian films on key contemporary themes explored with innovative languages and sensibilities, proposed by L’Aquila Film Festival.

Tomorrow evening, Wednesday 26 June, at 9pm, the black comedy by Damiano Giacomelli – present at the screening – will be screened Castelrotto (2024), defined as a revenge movie on the fake news of the town, set in a small town in the Macerata Apennines which suddenly becomes a theater of a news story. The protagonist is a stubborn but ambiguous Don Quixote, played by Giorgio Colangeli, who wants to manipulate the story of a provincial mystery for a personal revenge.

Second appointment with cinema on Friday 28 June again at 9pm, this time with Zamora, by Neri Marcorè, an actor and television host much loved by the general public who with this work makes his directorial debut in 2023 and also earns a nomination for the 2024 Silver Ribbons Based on the novel by sports journalist Roberto Perrone, the film is set in Milan in the 1960s in which the film’s protagonist, Walter Vismara played by Alberto Paradossi, and Giorgio Cavazzoni, played by Neri Marcorè himself, move.

BOOKS On Thursday 27 June at 7pm, the courtyard of the MAXXI L’Aquila hosts Danilo Zagaria, biologist and passionate populariser, with a lecture based on the themes presented in the volume Il tangle green. Inhabiting forests from the Mesozoic to science fiction, a journey through the extraordinary arboreal complexity of Earth’s forests, to be cared for and preserved for the future.

Forests cover a good part of the emerged land in a large tangle of roots, branches, trees, leaves and living beings. To tell it, the author enriches forestry, ecological and geological sciences with forays into literature, philosophy, anthropology, architecture and economics. Moving from the mangrove forests on the ocean coasts to the Siberian taiga, from the tropical canopies to the oak-hornbeam forests in the heart of Europe, Zagaria is a complex and stratified world, from the depths of the earth to the flying rivers, from prehistory to the future. The green tangle weaves together stories that move in space and time and “multispecies stories”, as Donna Haraway calls them, whose threads are picked up by other hands, creating unpredictable and surprising links.