The Voice of Reality with Alma Mileto
Between Voice and Image in Documentary Cinema - masterclass and an evening discussion
On April 16, Alma Mileto will visit the cross-border cities of Nova Gorica and Gorizia, where she will lead a masterclass and share her thoughts in a talk. The masterclass will investigate the relationship between voice and image in documentary cinema starting from the text La Voce del Reale. Il rapporto voce-immagine nel cinema documentario (Meltemi, 2023). Alternating theoretical and historical insights into the issue with visions of film excerpts that well exemplify the discussion (Italian and international), the reflection will start from the origins of cinema – the advent of sound, the role of speech – and will arrive at the contemporary through the various passages who see the vocal element transforming in relation to visual representation. The cinema of reality from this point of view is the best object of examination, since the voice-off constitutes one of its pertinent features from the beginning of its history and which over time up to the present day is in this cinema that the most interesting experiments have emerged regarding the counterpoint between the plane of the image and the plane of language.
Alma Mileto is a Research Fellow in Cinema at the Department of Modern Literature and Cultures of the Sapienza University of Rome. She has written essays and articles in scientific and A-level magazines (Fata Morgana, Arabeschi, Biblioteca teatrale, Cinema e storia) and collective volumes. She has been a speaker at numerous national and international conferences. She is the author of the volume The Voice of Reality. The voice-image relationship in documentary cinema (Meltemi 2023). She is editor-in-chief of Fata Morgana Web.
Masterclass with Alma Mileto
16:00 - 17:30
Academy of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska cesta 13, Nova Gorica
Evening conversation with Alma Mileto
18:00
BorGO Cinema, Raštel 57/59, Gorizia
Moderator: Aljaž Škrlep
Participation in both events is free of charge.
“Imagine instead that the comment is said by a poet, or rather imagine going back to the Greek chorus, whereby the poet does not describe what he physically sees in the film, but reads a ‘recitative’ that superimposes a particular dramatic or poetic tone on the action.”
(John Grierson, Documentary and Reality)
Image from the cover of Alma Mileto's book; from Pietro Marcello's film La bocca del lupo (2009).
The event is part of the GO! STUDIO project, funded by the European Union through the GO! 2025 Small Projects Fund under the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia 2021-2027 program, managed by EGTC GO.