The Voice of Reality with Alma Mileto

Masterclass and evening talk with Alma Mileto.

"‘Imagine instead that the comment is delivered by a poet, or better still, to return to the Greek chorus, where the poet does not describe what he physically sees in the film, but reads a "recitative" that gives a particular dramatic or poetic tone to the action." - John Grierson, Documentary and Reality

On Tuesday, 16 April, the renowned film theorist Alma Mileto will be a guest at the Academy of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, at 16:00 and at BorGO Cinema at 18:00, where she will lead a masterclass and participate in an evening discussion. Her research on the relationship between voice and image in documentary film will be based on her book La Voce del Reale. 

The workshop will shed light on the interplay between sound and image through theoretical and historical insights and the analysis of film excerpts from Italian and international documentaries. We will explore the evolution of the voice element in documentary film, from its beginnings, when the voice outside the frame became one of its fundamental characteristics, to contemporary experimental approaches that blur the boundaries between visual and linguistic expression.