The Experimental Center underfunded
so the country loses its memory
The historic Roman institution that has trained generations of filmmakers, screenwriters, actors and technicians world famous in danger of dying due to cuts
ROME - Even Gabriel Garcia Marquez has studied and graduated from the Experimental Cinema Centre (CSC), referred to the excellence and prestige of a school, appreciated worldwide. Founded in 1935, the CSC has trained generations of filmmakers, writers, technicians and performers, and now in danger of dying due to the operation of government. They were students of the CSC Michelangelo Antonioni and Alida Valli, and even now most of the names that count in the Italian cinema come from this school, the generation of Bellocchio than the Cavani and Verdone, Virzi, Archibugi. As well as between the plaintiffs attended the CSC and Riccardo Scamarcio Alba Rorhwacher. The CSC is a major production center specializing in documentaries, short films, but also "normal" like to cite a recent example "Ten winters", the debut very honored to Valerio Mieli, graduates of the CSC. And then the CSC is a specialized library frequented by scholars around the world, a publishing house that produces books and periodicals and is especially cinema body to conserve, preserve and disseminate the historical memory of Italian cinema. It forms part of the National Film Library also CSC which houses thousands of films. "So it's a place of business from the very considerable cultural point of view and because no-profit organization supported by more, or since the birth of CSC, with public funds. What if these resources were suddenly removed? The answer is very simple and dramatic: the CSC simply disappear. Even
Francesco Alberoni, president of CSC is incredulous and appalled. "Cutting state funds - Alberoni says - means delete the CSC. A decision of this type or is demented, sprung from the mind of some incompetent bureaucrat who ignores what the CSC, or worse yet criminal, the result of the desire to hurt to death Italian cinema. "Even in simple economic terms - Alberoni says - delete the CSC would destroy a wealth of tens and tens of millions of Euros, a figure much more consisting of the ten million that the state allocates annually to the CSC. In fact, the National Film Library are kept thousands and thousands of films that require special treatment. Films must be kept in special Cellari "a constant temperature and humidity to avoid deterioration. This requires personnel costs for the purchase of specific structures and payment of electricity bills. Without money we would be forced to simply turn off the switches and pulped the film. "Some people would think of doing something similar with the books of the National Library? And to make matters worse the better, or the absurd, is that a State law requires a mandatory copy of each film which is produced in Italy must be filed with the National Film Archive. But as you can keep the movies if you cut the funds? "We can not think that everything happens," said Alberoni. But evidently someone in the government thought.