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Face to face with...
A place where roads meet. A time of change.
"If thou among the
eternal
Ideas art numbered,
which the eternal
mind
Deigns not should
e'er be clothed in
fleshly form,
And in frail human
frames
Learn with what ills
our mortal life doth
swarm;
Or if some other
earth be mine of
those
Innumerable worlds
wherewith heav'n
flames,
And, brighter than
the Sun, the nearest
star
Through kinder
atmosphere above
thee glows:
From here, where
days are brief and
skies soon darken,
To this, an unknown
lover's hymn, oh
hearken"

Giacomo Leopardi
"To my lady"


Sculpting a Movie
The Analogy between the Filmmaking
Process and Human Experience
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SPEAKERS:
.
Armando Fumagalli
Director of the Master Program in
Screenwriting, Fiction and Movies
Catholic University of Milan - Italy

Richard Pepperman
Professor of the Art of Editing
School of Visual Arts

Salvatore Petrosino
Director of Operations Film,
Video, and Animation Department
School of Visual Arts

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
at 7:00PM
3rd floor Amphitheater, Room 311
School of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street, New York
BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Discovering the world of arts:
performances and presentations
ABOUT THE EVENT

This discussion is dedicated to
movie making, and specifically
to the crucial creative process
that leads from screenwriting to
editing. The panelists are
outstanding scholars and
teachers in this field, who are
not only experts in a technical
sense but also have a deep
grasp of the artistic unity of
cinematography, of what makes
it a form of art. Every artistic
expression is, in one way or
another, an attempt at gauging
the depths of human
experience, in order to discover
its secret and find a point of
unity that reveals its
significance. The difference
between a random sequence of
images and a story emerges
when there is the presentment
of a meaning, of a larger picture
to which all the various details
point discretely. Thus, also the
beauty of a movie is enhanced
when nothing is by chance, but
every particular image builds
the whole story and reveals the
truth beneath the surface.
Especially today it is clear,
however, that the ability to
recognize every detail as a sign
of the meaning of the whole
story is not "natural" but the
fruit of an education. For this
reason, Crossroads is delighted
to host three outstanding
educators who can teach us how
to look at cinema less
superficially. Prof Armando
Fumagalli is Director of the
Masters program in
Screenwriting, fiction and movie
at the Catholic University of
theSacred Heart in Milan, Italy,
where he is also Extraordinary
Professor of Semiotics. He has
taught screenwriting for many
years, including at the Italian
National School of Cinema. He is
the author of several books on
communications, the media and
the relationship between
literature, cinema and
television. He is also a
development consultant for the
Lux vide TV production
company. Prof. Richard
Pepperman is Editing professor
at School of Visual Arts. and has
worked in film for more than 42
years. His credit include work as
an editor,post -production
supervisor and consultant on
features,documentaries,industria
ls,and commercials. His
collaborations have received
several awards, including the
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts
& Science Oustanding
Documentary Award, the Andy
Award and the Clio Award. ~
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