New York – The Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, headquarters of the Department of Italian Studies of New York University, hosts today a meeting with Milanese director Marina Spada. The event, entitled “A Stroll through the Urban Void. Women and the City in Maria Spada’s Cinema” is sponsored by the NYU Department of Italian Studies, and the CUNY Department of Comparative Literature. It will see the participation of Laura di Bianco (Hunter College), Valeria Castelli (NYU), Rebecca Falkoff (NYU), Giancarlo Lombardi CUNY (& College of Staten Island) and Francesca Parmeggiani (Fordham University). Recently, Harvard hosted the screening of “Poesia che mi guardi” (2009), which Spada dedicated to poet Antonia Pozzi. The film “Come l’ombra” (2006) won the award for Best Director at the Mar Del Plata International Film Festival, and in 2010 Marina Spada directed “Il mio domani,” starring Claudia Gerini, and presented at the International Film Festival of Rome. (9Colonne)
