I’m happy that this film with my musical score will be presented in June at the Gulf of Naples Film Festival in Italy. Bravi tutti! Grazie! — PG
Daniel Rothbart writes: “I feel honored and delighted that “The Canto of Ulysses (for Primo Levi),” a short film that I realized with Carlo Giuliano is an Official Selection of the Gulf of Naples Independent Film Festival in Naples, Italy! The 10th Edition of this festival will take place from June 11-14, 2024, at the Istituto Pontano (Palazzo Cariati). Thanks to Umberto Santacroce and Vittorio Adinolfi.
The film features a new Arabic translation of Dante’s “Canto of Ulysses” by Marwa Saabni and music by Patrick Grant. It was previously screened at the Pool of the Arches / Center for Contemporary Art Ramle CACR in Ramle, Israel, and at the Lambert Center for Art + Ideas, JCC Manhattan in New York City.”
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“The Canto of Ulysses (for Primo Levi)” is a surreal, aqueous voyage that juxtaposes Carlo Giuliano’s reading of Canto 26 of Dante’s Inferno with imagery of Daniel Rothbart’s floating sculptural installations in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Dante’s Canto 26 recounts the story of Ulysses who, once returned to Ithaca, rallies his former shipmates for one last voyage to the end of the world. Within sight of his destination, Ulysses’ ship is caught in a whirlpool and carried to the bottom of the sea. Thereafter, Ulysses inhabits the eighth circle of hell, where he is punished for deceiving Greeks with the Trojan Horse.
Jorge Luis Borges likens Ulysses to Dante himself, who pushes boundaries of the Italian language. ‘If This Is a Man,’ Primo Levi’s Auschwitz memoir, includes a chapter titled “The Canto of Ulysses.” Levi recites the canto in his mind to keep hold of his sanity in the camp. Levi unsuccessfully tries to convey a sense of its meaning and poetry to Jean, a friend and fellow prisoner.
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