28th of May at 6pm
This evening of readings and screenings wants to explore the challenges of transforming, adapting and modifying text in relation to other media such as films, music and podcasts. Adapting text often involves making specific choices to give the work another experiential quality. Narrative, story-telling, seriality and other experimental adaptive solutions emerge from this creative moment.
Together with writers, directors and musicians we will discuss how their work adapts to different media. We will experience their work through readings and screenings and discuss the necessary negotiations that were used to transform the textual element into something else.
The form and function of textual adaptation is constantly evolving; the interconnectedness of media will direct the discussion towards thinking about adaption as product and process.
Participants include writers Katie Kitamura (AAR Fellow 2023), Claudia Durastanti (Italian Fellow 2015) and Chiara Barzini; director William 0lroyd and Alexandra de la Mora; composers Baldwin Giang (Rome Prize Fellow 2023-2024) and Kate Soper (Rome Prize Fellow 2024).
Spazio Supernova is a site-specific three year art experiment, exhibition and cultural space located in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. It will burn brightly for three years and then will explode and disappear hopefully leaving behind something new.
SCHEDULE
WORDS FOR FILMS
Introduction Maria Puri Purini
Reading by Chiara Barzini
Sequence of Dante y Soledad directed by Alexandra de la Mora
Sequence of Eileen directed by William Oldrovd
Transforming text into screen discussing the adaptation of The Marriage of the Red Fish by Guadalupe Nettel into Dante u Soledad and the adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s book Bileen with directors William Oldroyd and Alexandra de la Mora, moderated by Chiara Barzini Break
WORDS TO LISTEN
Reading by Claudia Durastanti
Listening of the new pop song by Baldwin Giang with words by Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura and Baldwin Giang – conversation moderated by Claudia Durastanti
