The fourth masterclass of School CINEMA focuses on three key figures of contemporary cinema. With "New Authors – Lynch, Cronenberg, Tarantino", the program continues with an in-depth exploration of authorship from the 1980s onward, at the height of what has been defined as cinematic postmodernity: a season marked by rewritings, hybridizations, and radical redefinitions of the gaze.
A masterclass curated by Giulio Sangiorgio (IULM)
“New authors,” when viewed across the long trajectory of a film history that has (somewhat wearily) reached its 130th year. “Last masters,” when seen from today’s perspective. Within a broader survey of the movements and upheavals in cinema from the 1980s onward, the lecture will explore the politics of authorship of the three directors in focus: from the probing of surrealism and the sublime within the unconscious of the American imaginary in the work of David Lynch, to the hypothetical rewritings of History (and especially of film history) by Quentin Tarantino, and the rigorously biopolitical study of the relationship between human beings and technology in David Cronenberg’s horror cinema.
(Giulio Sangiorgio)