Video Library

• Casa Italiana

2014-15 Season Highlights

A look back at the highlights from the 2014-2015 season of events.

• Art

Geppy Pisanelli: “Passage” [2015]

 An interview with artist Geppy Pisanelli, on the occasion of his exhibition Passage, on view June 2 – June 25, 2015.

• Cinema & Television

Open Roads: Italian Cinema on Stage [2015]

A round table with the artistic delegation of Lincoln Center’s Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2015. June 6, 2015

• History & Politics

Luigi De Magistris, Mayor of Naples [2015]

A conversation with Mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris, focusing on his administration’s mission of "lawfulness through education", the changes it has brought to the city alongside its plans for the future and, also, what keeps Naples the artistic and creative breeding ground that it is. June 5, 2015

• Cinema & Television

Walter Veltroni presents “I bambini sanno” [2015]

Walter Veltroni presents his latest documentary I bambini sanno [Children Know], in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU) and Antonio Monda (NYU). June 3, 2015

• Music

Paolo Bordogna and the Rossini Opera Festival [2015]

 Bass-Baritone Paolo Bordogna talks about his latest recording "Tutto Buffo" and about the 2015 Rossini Opera Festival, in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU) and Patricia Franceschini (Rossini Opera Festival). May 26, 2015

• Art

World Monuments Fund: 50 Years of Preserving Italy’s Glorious Monuments [2015]

FROM THE 1966 VENICE FLOOD TO THE PALAZZO FARNESE: An Audio/Visual Presentation by Lisa Ackerman, World Monuments Fund. May 20, 2015

• Casa Italiana

Backstage with the Board of Casa Italiana [2015]

Interviews with Baroness Zerilli-Marimò and members of the Advisory Board of Casa Italiana. May, 2015

• Cinema & Television

Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema: an interview with Ruth Ben-Ghiat [2015]

Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini interviews Professor and author Ruth Ben-Ghiat about her latest work, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema, in the library of Casa Italiana.

Stefano Albertini Interviews Renzo Piano [2015]

Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini in conversation with Renzo Piano, Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect, about Piano’s newly completed Whitney Museum of American Art, and much more. May 26, 2015

• Literature

PEN 2015: The Passion of Elena Ferrante [2015]

Presented as part of The Literary Mews – a festival within the PEN World Voices Festival. Award-winning translator Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) in conversation with NYU professor Rebecca Falkoff. May 8, 2015

• Literature

PEN 2015: Édouard Glissant – Everything Scatter, Scatter [2015]

Presented as part of The Literary Mews – a festival within the PEN World Voices Festival. A celebration of the late Martinican writer, poet and cultural commentator. With Kaiama Glover, Achille Mbembe and Veronique Tadjo. Moderated by Christopher Winks. May 8, 2015