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François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard: two great masters of film history, undisputed protagonists of an unrepeatable season as the French Nouvelle vague. First friends, then rivals, very different from each other, but both bound by a visceral love for cinema: at Giunti Odeon a series of documentary films recounting their contrasting relationship.
Gabriele Galasso's digital photography course is aimed at anyone interested in photography, both from a technical perspective and a linguistic one, who is taking their first steps with digital photography.
The goal of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge needed to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately putting into practice photographic techniques through exercises that stimulate creativity, both day and night.
Through viewing images by past and contemporary photographers, the course analyzes the potential of photographic language. A camera capable of shooting in manual mode is required.
The subscription fee is €120 (€60 for under 25s) and can be purchased at the GO box office. Enrollment is limited.
PROGRAM: 1ST LESSOn
The History of Photography and Basic Digital Techniques
After a brief introductory presentation, we will take a short historical excursion to understand digital photographic language and how digital cameras function.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema from the DAMS program at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Following his passion for art, he realized that his artistic expression occurs through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo' and, upon completing his training, initially joined the team as an assistant for courses and masterclasses, later becoming an instructor for digital and analog photography courses.
His photographic interest is particularly directed towards personal artistic research while undertaking commissioned work for brands, companies, and events. Additionally, he designs educational programs aimed at children, using tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
At Giunti Odeon a rich selection of films and documentaries on painting, visual arts and comics in the 20th century. This is a selection of very rare titles (with many experimental and artist films) - from the Cineteca di Bologna archive - dedicated to the life and works of Alberto Burri, Umberto Boccioni, Primo Conti, Giorgio De Chirico, Antoni Gaudì, Alberto Grifi, Hugo Pratt, Gino Rossi and many others.
Film History Atelier curated by Marco Luceri - The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock - Encounter no. 2
Encounter 2 - The Great Turning Point
When he arrived in America, Hitchcock found himself in a different context, but he immediately succeeded in creating the perfect balance between authorship and the Studio-system: thanks to the detective story as a genre but also as a world-view, he broke the Hollywood principle of the illusion of reality. In Rebecca the First Wife (1940) he experiments with the importance of obsession in narrative construction. In The Suspect (1941), the ambiguity of the staging moves on from the distorted subjective and the happy ending that does not entirely dissolve the situation. In I Will Save You (1945) dreams acquire a plastic reality thanks to the recovery of avant-garde effects. In Rope (1948) the use of the piano-sequence experiments with the unity of place in the unity of time.
When one of the greatest British actors and directors meets the queen of detective stories. In recent years Kenneth Branagh has begun adapting Agatha Christie's most famous novels for the cinema, impersonating with originality and sophistication the most famous of her characters: Hercule Poirot. Giunti Odeon offers the first two films of this ‘series’.
The first event of #AutographsAGoGò in 2025 is with... Lily Red! The author of Be Unstoppable. Hearts of Ice (Newton Compton Editori) will be with us to sign all your copies!
The book:
He's the captain of the hockey team. She loves challenging him in every way. Wattpad author Lily Red tells a tale of rivalry that evolves into irresistible attraction in this passionate, irreverent love story that will keep you hooked from start to finish.
"Matthew Leblanc is a living temptation. He's infuriating, but impossible to resist."
When her father Marcus accepts the position of dean at Montréal College, Kelsey Cooper finds herself leaving sunny California to study in icy Canada. Strong and determined, she’s ready to tackle the new challenges of her future with optimism and plenty of good intentions. However, on her very first day, she realizes the college is ruled by the unruly hockey team, which has the students and teachers under its thumb. Matthew Leblanc, the sexy and rebellious captain, is the undisputed king of the campus, respected for his feats on the ice and feared for his ruthless pranks.
An immediate antipathy flares between him and Kelsey, quickly escalating into an all-out war. Yet, amidst pranks, arguments, and provocations, Matthew and Kelsey discover they might be more alike than they thought. Could their rivalry turn into an irresistible attraction? And if it does, will they be able to lay down their arms, or will their pride prevent them from following their hearts?
The author:
Lily Red is a young Italian author, born in 1999. She has always had a deep passion for writing and music. Her interest in ice hockey was sparked by her father, which inspired her to publish her first story on Wattpad in November 2023.
At Giunti Odeon a selection of American classics from the 1980s! Colourful, crazy, experimental, joyful and dark at the same time: the films of that decade are the kaleidoscope of a renewed and euphoric society, but not without its shadows. Here then are the films of masters such as Robert Zemeckis, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese and many other cult films to see and see again!
The films of two immense masters of the history of cinema offered at Giunti Odeon in splendid and extremely rare restored versions. We start with the 34 comedies interpreted and shot by Charlie Chaplin for the Keystone Company between 2 February and 7 December 1914. In less than twelve months Chaplin went from being an almost unknown vaudeville actor to a film star. He learnt to conceive, direct and edit his own films: just one year of whirlwind activity and a world taking shape, a character gradually taking possession of his own suit, a filmmaker conquering his place in front of and behind the camera. The Keystone comedies record, in real time, and with a dynamism, vitality and energy that are unrepeatable, the birth and evolution of one of the 20th century's most universal characters. It continues with three overwhelming masterpieces by Buster Keaton: ‘Cops’ (1922), ‘The High Sign’ (1921), ‘Neighbours’ (1921).
Here comes the GO Book Club!
Three simple rules:
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Read our Book of the Month (Onesto by Francesco Vidotto, who will join us for the occasion!).
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Sign up at the GO register to participate, and come discuss the book with our booksellers and other readers!
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At the end of the meeting, choose one of the three books proposed by our booksellers. The most voted one will become next month's read!
At Giunti Odeon a series of extremely rare documentaries collecting the testimonies of the great masters of Italian cinema. From Fellini to Pasolini, from Visconti to De Sica, from Rossellini to Bertolucci, from Antonioni to Bellocchio and many others, an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at so many cinema masterpieces.
Gabriele Galasso's digital photography course is aimed at people who are interested in photography, both from a technical and a creative language perspective, and who are taking their first steps with digital photography.
The purpose of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge they need to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately applying shooting techniques through photographic exercises that stimulate their creativity both day and night.
By viewing images from past and contemporary photographers, the course analyzes the potential of photographic language. A camera capable of shooting in manual mode is required.
The subscription fee (€120, €60 for those under 25) can be purchased at the GO box office. Enrollment is limited.
PROGRAM: 2° lesson
Photographic Exposure
ISO sensitivity, shutter speed, and aperture: studying light and the parameters for shooting in manual mode, while analyzing images from past and contemporary photographers.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema from the DAMS program at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Following his passion for art, he discovered that his artistic expression comes through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo' and, upon completing his training, initially joined the team as an assistant for courses and masterclasses, later becoming an instructor for both digital and analog photography courses.
His photographic interests are particularly focused on personal artistic research, while he also undertakes commissioned work for brands, companies, and events. He also designs educational programs for children, providing tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Francesco Romagnoli, together with the Mayor of Florence, Sara Funaro, and Corriere della Sera journalist Iacopo Gori, will share with us his book, Babajé. Il richiamo dei bambini invisibili (Gremese Editore).
The book:
With a simplicity that touches the heart, this book recounts a daring and extraordinary journey that, for over twenty years, has brought support and hope to the most vulnerable in Tigray, an Ethiopian region devastated by drought, disease, and a brutal civil war.
“There is a remote place, so remote that the world seems to have forgotten its existence. There, a village welcomes the invisible children, those orphaned, those unseen by the world. When you pass through the gates of this special place, you hear laughter and songs, joyful voices and sweet words. And then a name, repeated countless times, flowing from every child’s mouth like music: ‘Babajé,’ which means ‘my father.’ What follows is the story of that village. It’s the story of the people who live there, and it is also mine. I am ‘Babajé.’”
Nearly twenty years ago, in Adwa, northern Ethiopia, Romagnoli fulfilled his dream: he built a Children's Village, a safe haven for the "invisible children," those forgotten by the world. Babajé (my father) is the joyful cry that greets him every time he returns. But since the outbreak of the civil war in Tigray, returning has become impossible, and sending aid increasingly challenging.
In these pages, Romagnoli himself tells the story of that village, the lives of those who inhabit it, and the children he has welcomed and helped. It is a moving journey into the lives of those who cling to hope. With heartfelt simplicity, this book recounts a daring and extraordinary adventure that, for over two decades, has provided support and hope to the most vulnerable in Tigray, a region ravaged by drought, disease, and an atrocious civil war.
The author:
FRANCESCO ROMAGNOLI was born in Rome in 1970 into a family of professionals. After earning a degree in Economics and Commerce in 1995, he began working in his father’s firm. However, in 2000, after a trip to the Horn of Africa, he decided to leave everything behind and move to a small village in northern Ethiopia, where he lived for fifteen years. In 2002, together with his family, he founded the association “James Will Not Die.” Using the funds raised, he built a village for orphaned children, followed by a malnutrition center, schools, hospitals, roads, wells, and numerous other initiatives over time.
Returning to Italy in 2015, he now divides his time between Rome and Ethiopia, where he continues to oversee ongoing projects and develop new ones.
All proceeds from this book will be donated in full to the association James non morirà.
Film History Atelier curated by Marco Luceri - The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock - Meeting no. 3
Encounter 3 - Cinema in Films
From the 1950s Hitchcock's cinema became increasingly meta-cinematic, with the focus shifting more and more towards the unravelling of formal mechanisms. In Stage Fright (1950) the principle of the narrator's omniscience is overturned. Rear Window (1954) is a multi-layered film: genre film, Hitchcock film, film about cinema and the act of watching. In To Catch a Thief (1955) the visually saturated images already tend towards abstraction.
Gabriele Galasso's digital photography course is aimed at all those interested in photography, both from a technical and creative language perspective, who are taking their first steps with digital photography.
The goal of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge necessary to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately putting shooting techniques into practice through photographic exercises, stimulating creativity both during the day and at night.
By viewing images from past and contemporary photographers, the course analyzes the potential of photographic language. A camera capable of shooting in manual mode is required.
The subscription fee (€120, €60 for those under 25) can be purchased at the GO box office. Enrollment is limited.
PROGRAM: 3° lesson
Evening Practical Session
During the evening outing, the theoretical concepts will be put into practice through photographic exercises, capturing the city during the day with natural light.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema from the DAMS program at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Following his passion for art, he discovered that his artistic expression comes through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo’, and after completing his studies, he initially joined the team as an assistant in courses and masterclasses, later becoming a teacher of both digital and analog photography.
His photographic interests focus particularly on personal artistic research, while he also undertakes commissioned work for brands, companies, and events. He also designs educational programs aimed at children, providing tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Film History Atelier curated by Marco Luceri - The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock - Meeting no. 4
Encounter 4 - Adventure and the Individual
The second half of the 1950s is for Hitchcock the one of the challenge with himself through three (im)possible films: in the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) he fine-tunes the mechanisms of suspense and surprise (in the scene of the eardrum blowing); in Vertigo (1958) he pushes on narrative forms as (distorted) geometries of the gaze; in North by Northwest (1959) the plot is a gigantic, demented pretext and the use of images is designed for effect and not verisimilitude.
Gabriele Galasso's Digital Photography Course is aimed at all those who are interested in photography, both from a technical perspective and from a language perspective, and who are taking their first steps with digital photography.
The goal of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge needed to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately putting into practice, through photographic exercises, the shooting techniques while stimulating their creativity both during the day and at night.
Through the viewing of images from past and contemporary photographers, the potential of photographic language is analyzed. A camera capable of manual shooting is required.
The subscription (120€ and 60€ for those under 25) can be purchased at the GO ticket office. Registration is limited.
PROGRAM FOR THE 5th LESSON
Image Review
During the final lesson, the images taken during the outings will be reviewed.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema Studies at DAMS at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna, and following his passion for art, he realized that his artistic expression comes through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo', and at the end of the program, he joined the team initially as an assistant for courses and masterclasses and later as an instructor for digital and analog photography courses. His photographic interest is particularly focused on personal artistic research, while he also works on commissioned projects for brands, companies, and events.
In addition, he designs educational programs aimed at young children, creating tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts for children and teenagers.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Film History Atelier curated by Marco Luceri - The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock - Meeting no. 5
Encounter 5 - The Last Streets
With Psyco (1960) Hitchcock has a new interpretative code to illustrate: after the double, sexuality, guilt complex and innocence in a trap comes the removal of the maternal figure, which disorients and upsets profound equilibriums; the pact of complicity with the spectator (identification with the hero) is broken to the advantage of pure fear. The Birds (1963) is his last masterpiece, crazy and visionary: a film based on unpredictability, on the precariousness of human relationships, on the absurdity and non-sense of life.
Gabriele Galasso's Digital Photography Course is aimed at all those who are interested in photography, both from a technical point of view and from a language perspective, and who are taking their first steps with digital photography.
The goal of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge needed to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately putting into practice, through photographic exercises, the shooting techniques while stimulating their creativity both during the day and at night.
Through the viewing of images from past and contemporary photographers, the potential of photographic language is analyzed. A camera capable of manual shooting is required.
The subscription (120€ and 60€ for those under 25) can be purchased at the GO ticket office. Registration is limited.
PROGRAM FOR THE 4th LESSON
Daytime Practical Session
During the daytime outing, theoretical concepts will be put into practice through photographic exercises, shooting the city at night with artificial light.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema Studies at DAMS at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna, and following his passion for art, he realized that his artistic expression comes through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo', and at the end of the program, he joined the team initially as an assistant for courses and masterclasses and later as an instructor for digital and analog photography courses. His photographic interest is particularly focused on personal artistic research, while he also works on commissioned projects for brands, companies, and events.
In addition, he designs educational programs aimed at young children, creating tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts for children and teenagers.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Odeon, the history of cinema in Florence
All the most beautiful films, the most illustrious guests, and the most important events have had the grand hall of the historic center as their stage. Discover its history.
A century of cinema and culture
From 1922 to the present, the history of Florence's Odeon cinema in a book full of pictures, documents, stories and curiosities.
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