Who is (are?) the actual culprit(s?) in both books and in the film? Please do not consider my initial question as a provocation, but as something to be taken literally, although ironically so.
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Pietro Ferrua
Article 4 is an article of the Constitution of the post-WW II Italian Republic that deals with the right of every citizen (regardless of race, sex, gender or any other bias) to obtain a reasonably paid, decent job.
It must be a passionate subject since Woody Allen, one of the rare American filmmakers still producing auteur features, has dedicated an entire movie to deal with this issue. I plan to see the film only after I have finished […]
** In memory of Alain Resnais recently deceased ** Should the art of cinema be used for propaganda purposes or is it in the nature of any kind of art to remain separated from socio-political issues? We could defend […]
This is a short story in Italian by Pietro Ferrua [the synopsis in English by Mirella Bontempo follows the original]. Ferrua’s most recent publication is “John Cage, Anarchico ‘Schedato’ in Brasile”(Ocra Press, 2013), an account of how the Brazilian […]
In 1984, my good friend Maurice Lemaître, a noted French intellectual and artist who is prominent in the Letterist movement, invited me to produce an avant-garde film to be shown in Paris at the French Cinémathèque in a program […]
Los Angeles, February 1972 Dear children: When I myself was a child, in Italy, and toured the country with my parents, we would visit churches, basilicas, and cathedrals. Either for religious fervor or as a cultural duty I […]
The new student came to consult with his advisor in order to establish his curriculum. The professor tried to point out to him the nobility of culture and while doing so was attempting to discover the freshman’s tendencies, […]
Pain was his lot. He had to endure it constantly since . . . Well, he could not even remember when it started, whether before or after surgery. Was it the cause of his malady or a consequence? Why is […]
[First published in A. Rivista anarchica, anno 40, n.2 (352) aprile 2010, pp. 47-49, Milano, Italia. Translation by Maya Khankhoje] Imperialism is a phenomenon which dates back all the way to antiquity, its epicenter having changed throughout the […]
