“In the cinema, a society that has lost its gestures tries at once to reclaim what it has lost and to record its loss... For human beings who have lost every sense of naturalness, each single gesture becomes a destiny.”
— Giorgio Agamben, "Notes on Gesture"

Join us at Public Trust for The Space of Gestures, a series of film screenings on Thursday, November 6, 2025 from 5-8:00pm revisiting the work of Italian filmmakers Cecilia Mangini and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The screenings will be followed by a lecture by Professor Noa Steimatsky connecting Pasolini and Mangini to explore how cinema reimagines history, politics, and the body.

Presented in partnership with the Departments of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. With support from Cineteca di Bologna and Penn Libraries.

More info HERE

https://publictrust.org/the-space-of-gestures