Vested voices 2. Creating with transvestism: from Bertolucci to Boccaccio
Federica G. Pedriali, Rossella Riccobono
- Genere: Cinema, tv, radio
- Listino: € 18.00
- Data Uscita: 13/06/2007
- Pagine: 168
- Lingua: Inglese
- EAN: 9788880635499
For Thomas More Utopia is an existential, social, political ideal place we all aim to reach. But it is an island. It is that i-sland that one will reach if one embarks on a trip, by sea, by land, by outer space (and here a glimpse of Fellini’s 8 e 1/2 springs to mind). A trip that is illusory, as Utopia cannot be reached – and indeed no-one ever will reach it, because, in fact, it has already been lost. We have all been there, each of us has already experienced it. Utopia thus rests in the past and not in the future, and so our trip to this Edenic place (the place of the original unity, but also the time when we were in congruent communication with our most authentic Self, the god within us: when we were, in Gadda’s words, omnipo-tent) must be a trip backwards. A return trip to and through the fathers and mothers, not to reach unity again, but to accept its loss, returning to ourselves as healed as one can be, if ever can be, but with awareness. It is exactly in this return trip that the essence of this volume lies – a trip backwards in time and through artistic efforts. A trip within the self, to decon-struct and reconstruct the self. So that it may come to terms with the Self. Thus utopia (strictly in small letters) can be de-stabilised as lay, as democratically part of us all – ultimately as nostalgia.
