Back Parallel Visions, a film series designed to complement and explore certain productions from the 2026/27 Performing Arts Season, focusing on the dialogue between theatre and cinema.
Following the excellent response to the first edition, the Cinema Iride in Lugano is hosting a new programme comprising six films by the great masters of the silver screen: works that will be adapted for the stage or whose themes will be reworked by playwrights and directors through their own theatrical sensibilities. These include Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Notes for an African Oresteia (1970), Aleksandr Sokurov’s Faust (2011), After the Rehearsal by Ingmar Bergman (1984) and Elephant by Gus Van Sant (2003): films which, whilst belonging to different eras, styles and languages, explore the relationship between representation, memory, power, violence and identity.
The programme is rounded off by Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2015), a science-fiction thriller on artificial intelligence—a theme at the heart of the thematic programme Quantum Intelligences – Chapter Two—and Giulio Boato’s documentary Theatron – Romeo Castellucci (2018), an immersion into the creative universe of the visionary director to whom the season dedicates a Retrospective.
Parallel Visions thus reaffirms itself as a meeting point for different languages: an invitation to view theatre through cinema and cinema through theatre.
