The Genius of a Place" with Film Director Sarah Marder
Fri, May 22
|Zoom
"Happy Hour Mixer (AICR + Free Exchange): Join us to mingle and engage within the International community on the future of Italy’s “genius loci”
Time & Location
May 22, 2020, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Zoom
About the event
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88514324520?pwd=eE1sU1NWR3VjWDdQalQ5U3k4NjRtZz09
Meeting ID: 885 1432 4520 Password: 364580
Synopsis of The Genius of a Place: WATCH THE FILM (in English and Italian)
Few aspects of our lives are as all-encompassing and vital to our well-being as the health of our surroundings. Ancient Romans, aware of this profound interrelation between man and place, used the term genius loci to pay homage to the ineffable characteristics, strengths and vulnerabilities of a given spot.
The Genius of a Place is filmed in Cortona, one of those Italian towns where sensitivity for the land has been handed down from one generation to another for thousands of years. The population had a deep knowledge of the symbiotic relationship between themselves and their place. But starting with the post WWII era, the forces of globalization began to sever this respectful relationship. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Italian countrysides emptied as many people…