Strada Pia
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| German title | Strada Pia |
| Original title | Strada Pia |
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| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Georg Brintrup |
| script | Georg Brintrup |
| production | Christhardt Burgmann Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne Georg Brintrup |
| music |
Carlo Gesualdo Johann Michael Haydn Claudio Monteverdi Domenico Scarlatti Muzio Clementi Giuseppe Verdi Trio Lescano Gian Francesco Malipiero György Ligeti |
| camera | Ali Reza Movahed Emilio Bestetti |
| cut | Carlo Carlotto |
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Strada Pia is a German-Italian film essay by Georg Brintrup from 1983. Using an ancient street in Rome, the Via Nomentana , he describes the paths that literature and architecture have followed over the past 400 years. Today three names denote the course of the street: Via Quirinale, Via XX Settembre and Via Nomentana.
action
The film begins its narrative in the center of Rome, follows the course of the street as it presents itself today, and ends in the periphery, far outside the city gates. A film team and actors stages twelve scenes from works of Italian literature from the last 400 years and visually contrasts them with the architecture of the respective time, which is located along the street. Authors from Torquato Tasso to Pier Paolo Pasolini have their say. From the renaissance to the serial standard architecture of the seventies it is juxtaposed with “architecture”.
background
The cinematic essay is based on a thesis by Victor Hugo : “Up until the fifteenth century, architecture was the comprehensive chronicle of humanity. During this period not even a halfway developed thought appeared in the world that did not become a building; (...) people didn't think of anything meaningful that they didn't write in stone. And why? Because every thought (...) wants to last: because the idea that moves a generation wants to leave its mark. (...) In the fifteenth century everything will be different. The human mind discovers a means to survive that is not only more durable and resilient than architecture, but also simpler and easier to handle. Architecture is dethroned. The lead Gutenbergs follow the stone letters of Orpheus. The book kills the structure. (...) When printed, the thought is more immortal than ever. (...) Since the sixteenth century the disease of architecture has been visible; it is no longer an essential expression of community; (...) The other arts break free, break the yoke of architecture, and each goes its own way. (...) All the forces that human thinking had previously used on buildings, it now uses on books. (...) Architecture is dead, dead forever; killed by the printed book because it is less durable, killed because it costs more. "
Movie title
The film title “Strada Pia” takes the name given to the street in 1565 after Pope Pius IV expanded it and had Michelangelo build the Porta Pia . The century is (according to the thesis of Victor Hugo ) as the time when all forces that human thought had previously applied to buildings are now applied to books.
Reviews
“The rhythm of the film follows the literature presented, the architecture. It is the words of the poets, the forms of the architects, that breathe life into the film, so to speak. (...) The viewer takes part in the making of the film; this is probably why the author calls his film a 'film infinito' (a 'film without end'). The viewer is asked to make connections between literature, music, architecture and - the noise of Roman traffic. A successful experiment to depict the history of a street. "
“The young German filmmaker Georg Brintrup, who lives in Rome, has set himself an ambitious goal: his film“ Strada Pia ”- a walk through a street in Rome - tried to be more than an ordinary“ cultural film ”. Again and again he breaks through the barriers of the catchy documentary, the art historical, in order to refer to his own medium, the film. (...) The course of Roman cultural history from the pomp of the Catholic Church to Italian fascism and beyond is traced, tracing a path which, as the film shows, should be symptomatic for every culture: namely the path from theocracy to democracy with its contemporary crises. "
Web links
- Strada Pia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Presentation of the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris 1831. From Chapters I (Abbas Beati Martini) and II (This will destroy that) of the fifth book.