Parallel Visions – Second Edition

Following the excellent response to the first edition, the Cinema Iride in Lugano is hosting a new series consisting of six films by great masters of cinema: works that will be adapted for the stage or whose themes will be reimagined by playwrights and directors through their own theatrical sensibilities. Among them are *Notes for an African Oresteia* by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1970), *Faust* by Aleksandr Sokurov (2011), Ingmar Bergman’s *After the Rehearsal* (1984), and Gus Van Sant’s *Elephant* (2003)—films that, despite belonging to different eras, artistic styles, and cinematic languages, explore the relationship between representation, memory, power, violence, and identity. 
Rounding out the series is Alex Garland’s *Ex Machina* (2015), a science-fiction thriller about artificial intelligence—a theme at the heart of the thematic journey *Quantum Intelligences – Chapter Two* —and the documentary *Theatron*  – Romeo Castellucci by Giulio Boato (2018), an immersion into the creative universe of the visionary director to whom the season dedicates a solo retrospective. “Parallel
Visions” thus reaffirms itself as a space where different forms of expression converge: an invitation to view theater through the lens of cinema and cinema through the lens of theater.