{"id":9557,"date":"2020-10-28T10:26:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:26:39","slug":"hallam-lecturer-peter-spences-re-consideration-of-antonionis-lavventura-published-in-journal-of-videographic-film-and-moving-image-studies-intransition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/hallam-lecturer-peter-spences-re-consideration-of-antonionis-lavventura-published-in-journal-of-videographic-film-and-moving-image-studies-intransition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallam Lecturer Peter Spence\u2019s re-consideration of Antonioni\u2019s L\u2019Avventura published in Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, [In]Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9558\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9558\" data-attachment-id=\"9558\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/hallam-lecturer-peter-spences-re-consideration-of-antonionis-lavventura-published-in-journal-of-videographic-film-and-moving-image-studies-intransition\/la-cupola-sardinia-august-2018\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/10\/La-Cupola-Sardinia-August-2018-e1603281280561.jpg?fit=320%2C104&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,104\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 70D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1533227950&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"La Cupola, Sardinia, August 2018\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/10\/La-Cupola-Sardinia-August-2018-e1603281280561.jpg?fit=320%2C104&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-9558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/10\/La-Cupola-Sardinia-August-2018-e1603281280561.jpg?resize=430%2C140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"140\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Cupola, Sardinia, August 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is only in relatively recent years that it has come to light that the visionary Italian film-maker Michelangelo Antonioni commissioned and built a quite unique and extraordinary holiday villa \u2013\u00a0<em>La Cupola <\/em>&#8211; on the island of Sardinia. Working closely with the architect Dante Bini, who pioneered the Binishell dome system of building, Antonioni completed the villa in the early 1970s, some say as a romantic gesture for his then leading lady and lover Monica Vitti. At Antonioni\u2019s request the villa and its\u2019 whereabouts were largely kept secret during his life-time but at a lecture given in February 2018 Bini was able to reveal details of the intense working practice required by Antonioni in the development of\u00a0<em>La Cupola.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Peter Spence\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.org\/intransition\/la-cupola-revisiting-lavventura-through-building-and-dwelling\">audio-visual essay<\/a> re-considers themes and characters in Antonioni\u2019s classic 1960 film<em> L\u2019Avventura i<\/em>n light of Dante Bini\u2019s revelations, while also incorporating ideas put forward by architectural theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz. The essay includes clips from <em>L\u2019Avventura <\/em>as well as footage, images and sounds recorded by Peter on a research trip to the villa in summer 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About [in]Transition<\/strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.org\/intransition\/\">[in]Transition<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a collaboration between\u00a0<em>MediaCommons<\/em>\u00a0and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies\u2019 official publication,\u00a0<em>Journal<\/em>\u00a0<em>of Cinema &amp; Media Studies<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 is the first peer-reviewed academic\u00a0journal of\u00a0videographic\u00a0film and moving image studies<b>.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright: Media Commons<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/peter-spence\">Peter Spence<\/a> teaches film theory on the BA Film and Media Production at\u00a0Hallam, and is Course Leader of the MAC Department Foundation Year courses. He holds an MA Screen Arts (Producing and Directing) from Sheffield Hallam University and BA (Hons) Politics and\u00a0History from Queen Mary University of London. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only in relatively recent years that it has come to light that the visionary Italian film-maker Michelangelo Antonioni commissioned and built a quite unique and extraordinary holiday villa \u2013\u00a0La Cupola &#8211; on the island of Sardinia. 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