Catalogue East / West

The catalogue of the retrospective aims to be an atlas—geographical, political, and historical—where the contributions are maps that allow one to navigate through the many territories of the retrospective, drawn by exceptional cartographers, historians, critics, anthropologists, and filmmakers and television authors.

This eccentric atlas tells the story of the border between Italy and Slovenia (and formerly Yugoslavia) through the notes of filmmakers whose films make up the extensive retrospective of works that, from the post-Second World War period to the present day, have turned this border into the backdrop for political, romantic, espionage, social, comedic, tragic, poetic, wartime, and peacetime stories, as well as tales of claims and cultural crossovers.

In compiling it, we sought old maps that illustrate how the boundary line has changed throughout history, because the border, beyond the rigid concept it may seem to represent, is fluid, uncertain, and, over time, advances, recedes, and disappears (this, at least, would be the utopia).

The texts were written by Lorenzo Codelli, Donatello Fumarola, Sergio M. Grmek Germani, Katja Hrobat Virloget, Nerina T. Kocjančič, Varja Močnik, Stojan Pelko, Mojca Petrič Bužan, Jasna Pintarič, Jože Pirjevec, Igor Prassel, Nicoletta Romeo, Silvana Silvestri, Andrej Šprah, Marcel Štefančič, jr., Sergio Toffetti, Nace Zavrl, and Mateja Zorn. The catalogue was curated by Donatello Fumarola and Mateja Zorn.