Cinema and Photography Day, December 4th, 2015
“Cinema and Photography Day” included the participation of the up and coming young photographer Ribeira Tiago Nonato, already well known at the ICBIE for having won the first Photography competition, launched by the Institute in 2014, A bola é redonda (The Ball is Round). Tiago presented a selection of 15 black and white photos of landscapes, boats, emarginated people, objects carried by the tides, fish, hands, and particular subjects such as a cat at the Sao Joaquim market.
A selection of images sent to us by our friends, the photographers Antonello Veneri and Marco Illuminati, concluded the first part of the event.
Stefano Barbi Cinti, videomaker and fonder of the school of Italian Italia Amica in Salvador, presented a documentary of a trip to Bahia by the author Fabio Stassi: the writer recounts his emotions of arriving to the land that had inspired his books, even though he had never known it personally; he found his inspiration by studying the fado, listening to traditional Brazilian music and observing the faces of the people on the train that took him to work every day. He compares the mixed blood population of Bahia to his own Sicilian origins, as the son of immigrants who moved to central Italy, and not belonging to a single race.
The director Max Gaggino presented his prize winning short film Haram, that narrates the story of a Palestinian couple that migrates to Salvador. The indifference and the skepticism of of the local inhabitants is mitigated by a dialog between a Muslim woman and a little Brazilian girl, who receives the privilege of seeing her hair, normally hidden under her Islamic veil, in a nice episode of integration between different people and races.
At the end of the evening, before enjoying a lovely bit of refreshments, we consigned the prizes for the category of cinema and photography to Tiago Nonato, Stefano Barbi Cinti, Max Gaggino and to the photographer J. F. Paranaguá, who has accompanied our events for many years and is an acute observer and photographer of local, national and international street art.
Davide Stadirani
