Palazzo delle Esposizioni takes part to the Giornata della Memoria 2017, part of the project Memory Generates Future with the screening of the film by Ada Ushpiz Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.

The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt caused an uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of the "Banality of Evil" when referring to the trial of Adolph Eichmann, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine. Her private life was no less controversial thanks to her early love affair with the renowned German philosopher and Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger. This thought provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of the whole of Arendt's life, traveling to places where she lived, worked, loved, and was betrayed, as she wrote about the open wounds of modern times. Through her books, which are still widely read and the recent release of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt (also a Zeitgeist Films release) there is renewed interest in Arendt throughout the world, especially among young people who find her insights into the nature of evil, totalitarianism, ideologies, and the perils faced by refugees, more relevant than ever.

"Memory Generates the Future", 10 days and over 100 events for Memory Day 2017
Ten consecutive days and over 100 events are being planned involving schools, theatres, cinemas, libraries, cultural venues, local town halls and the city's own symbolic sites associated with the Holocaust to commemorate and to debate the carnage in Nazi concentration camps. All of this will be coming together in Memory Generates Future. Starting this year, Rome the Capital City has decided to mark Memory Day with a series of events associated with "the Memory" of the Holocaust in a single programme with its own easily identifiable logo, scheduled to be held throughout the region for ten days. The city authorities consider it of crucial importance to hand down this collective memory in order to stimulate new generations into becoming "the witnesses' witnesses". This is the thinking behind Memory Generates Future, a coordination project that is the product of cooperation between the city's Cultural Growth Department and Zètema Progetto Cultura, who designed the logo identifying the entire programme of events.

For the entire programme of the events of Memory Generates Future click here.

Informazioni

Free admission while places lats

Sala Cinema

via Milano 9A

124'