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Friday, October 30, 2009

Wish You Were Here?


Salve a Tutti,

The National Gallery of Art and the Italian Cultural Institute are happy to offer a special screening of Tevere (The River Tiber), a documentary by Catia Ott celebrating the 2,761st birthday of Rome.
The Italian director will introduce the screening of this film only on October 31.
The documentary offers an unusual look at Rome, its history and its monuments, as they appear from the surface of the water of the Tiber crossing the city. We observe some remains of industrial archaeology, some neighborhoods undergoing deep changes, as well as the places that inspired Pasolini’s early novels. Starting from Ponte Milvio in Rome, the Northernmost stop of tour boats, and ending the journey at Ostia Antica and Fiumicino, Tevere takes us through the stops of Castel Sant’Angelo, Isola Tiberina, Trastevere and others. Each stop has its own history, told by the images and by some residents of the area.

The director moved to Paris after her studies in Political sciences and an experience as a production assistant for foreign correspondents (BBC, CBS, RAI) in Rome. In 2007 she completed her first documentary, Tevere, a cultural and sociological historical walk in Rome along the river which crosses the city.

TEVERE has won the El Capitan Film Award 2009 (Best Documentary) at the Yosemite Film Festival.
Organized by: National Gallery of Art In collaboration with: Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC
As always, films shown at the National Gallery are free admission.
The film will be shown in the East Building Concourse Auditorium.

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