Kino-Glass
What are the relationships between two languages such as music and cinema? How does Glass’s sound expression dissolve into the cinematographic image? Ermanno Comuzio tries to answer these questions by also focusing on the analysis of the cinematographic image associated with sound. Trained in different cultural areas (USA, Paris, Far East) and having made his own the most varied musical realities (avant-garde classical music, minimalism, opera, electronic, jazz-rock) Glass approaches composition for the screen with the same commitment and the same unscrupulousness of all his work. The encounter with the music for the cinema of this restless and tireless artist aims to illustrate the richness of his original contributions to films of different origins and of different quality, from the Indian experiences to the “ecological” trilogy, from the action film to the “spiritualist” one. Not to mention the various occasions in which directors have resorted to his compositions. The meeting will allow us to understand the exemplary integrative relationship between sound and image operated by Glass in the context of his global conception of expressive language.
Ermanno Comuzio
Born in Bergamo, critic and essayist, he is the owner of cinema and theatre columns in newspapers. Among his publications, there are monographs on George Cukor, Raoul Walsh, King Vidor, Erich von Stroheim and several books on film music. A contributor to magazines, including Cinema, Bianco e Nero, Cineforum, La Rivista del Cinematografo, Quaderni del Cinema, Ragazzo Selvaggio, as well as Sipario and Il Giornale della Musica, he has edited bio-filmographies of musicians, actors and directors for Filmlexicon, for the Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo, for the Dizionario Universale del Cinema, for the Enciclopedia Italiana della Treccani.
