Screening with introduction: The Venice Syndrome (Penn Museum)

Jan
14
2018

Screening with introduction: The Venice Syndrome (Penn Museum)

Jan 14, 2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm | Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum 3260 South St. Philadelphia, PA 19104

For the series “Second Sundays Cultural Films,” the Penn Museum and the Center for Italian Studies present:

THE VENICE SYNDROME

Director: Andreas Pichler (2012)

Introduction: Peter Lesnik (Ph.D. Candidate, Italian and Cinema Studies).

Ancient cities and time travel: The future of a long dying city and its very much alive citizens. What is the cost of tourism and gentrification on the world’s heritage cities?

Presented in Association with the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2017-18 Forum on Afterlives

Sponsors: Penn Italian Studies, Penn Design, Cinema and Media Studies

https://www.penn.museum/calendar/eventdetail/615/the-venice-syndrome