FINDING JOSEPH TUSIANI, THE POET OF TWO LANDS
Beautiful
evening in honor of worldliness and culture at the Italian Cultural Centre Ballroom
of Vancouver for the presentation of the documentary "Finding Joseph
Tusiani - the Poet of Two Lands" directed by Sabrina Digregorio.
Figure of
reprieve in the world of Italian-American literature, Joseph Tusiani has
received numerous literary awards in Europe, as in America -- the last of which
being that of being named New York State Poet Laureate Emeritus, on January
9th, 2016. That which has the greatest impact of the work of Sabrina Digregorio
on Joseph Tusiani is her capacity to bring to light the great sensitivity and
brilliance of the poet himself. The documentary accompanies the viewer on a
voyage backwards across and through memory and all phases of poetic justice.
Poetry, in fact, at its maximum potential becomes the Virgilio of this narrative
in which destinies, contemporary stories and literature intermix themselves
into a commingling which is altogether moving. Between one line and the next,
it traces between the genesis of the great migration and what one discovers at
the same time as the intense story of love between Frances Winwar (Francesca
Vinciguerra) and Joseph Tusiani, a memorable and touching encounter made of
elective affinities and poetry that will forever change their destinies.
As Digregorio
asserts: "The choice of telling the story of a human drama, the story of a
poet also through the intermingling of two so-called non-verbal languages,
poetry and film together, is a way of protecting the memory of the story
through emotionalizing. Through the form of a dialogue, a horizontal structure
to supersede the old way of building storytelling, I wanted to tell the living
life story of this highly renowned author. We discover and become emotional
discovering the author through the encounter which occurs between two different
generations and cultures. Daiana Giorgi converses with him, asking questions in
order to discover him and reveals his biography thereby. All of this takes form
through poetry that has true evocative power, that has the capacity to evoke
the life and livings of the subject. Poetry becomes a hymn to life, in an
intimate light and researched atmosphere.”
The screening
took place under the patronage of the General Consolate of Italy in Vancouver,
via the presence of Consulate Massimiliano Iacchini, of the Federation of
Pugliesi Social Clubs of British Columbia, of the Region of Puglia, with the
presence of President Michele Emiliano, and in collaboration with the COMITES
and the Cultural Centre of Vancouver.
"The
biography of a true and real man of two worlds, but as he is highlighted with
the great sensitivity of director Sabrina Digregorio, even through the story of
a path throughout which solitude and absence are alternated in notoriety,
through success and recognition", declared Gianluca Biscardi, the Cultural
Officer of the General Italian Consulate.
"It is a
film of extraordinary cultural value, that came into existence with the purpose
of letting the extraordinary work and being of Joseph Tusiani be known and
appreciated by the Italian and international pubic" - elaborated Consul
Massimiliano Iacchini.
"In una casa un'altra casa trovo" (In one house another house I find) is the title of Joseph Tusiani's autobiography, and it is within this lens that the narrative structure of the film develops, the story of the extraordinary actuality of a lived emigration which is felt like a drama, like an obliged solitude, like a pain which at times even the greatest success won't succeed in dissolving.
"In una casa un'altra casa trovo" (In one house another house I find) is the title of Joseph Tusiani's autobiography, and it is within this lens that the narrative structure of the film develops, the story of the extraordinary actuality of a lived emigration which is felt like a drama, like an obliged solitude, like a pain which at times even the greatest success won't succeed in dissolving.
The event was
concluded with the reception Gala in the Ballroom of the Italian Cultural
Center, where the entertainment was curated from the greatest down to the
tiniest details, from the grand banquet table down to the restrooms. The gratitude
for having organized this wonderful event of tasting goes to the Puglia Social
Clubs Federation of British Columbia that over many years lavishes itself with
the initiative "Tastes of Italy" to present and expand awareness of
the typical and original tastes of "Made in Puglia", with the
patronage of the General Consulate of Italy in Vancouver.
The producer and director Sabrina Digregorio, Eurybia Films, is taking the film to varied screening rooms and cinemas, also in the United States of America, and is actually at work on another film project which will soon see her back in Vancouver.
Vito Bruno - President of Federation Pugliesi S.C. British Columbia |
The producer and director Sabrina Digregorio, Eurybia Films, is taking the film to varied screening rooms and cinemas, also in the United States of America, and is actually at work on another film project which will soon see her back in Vancouver.
ON DEMAND via vimeo: www.findingjosephtusiani.com
Maja Giannoccaro
Translated by Eve Harrison
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