ALAIN DANIELOU
IL LABIRINTO DI UNA VITA
a documentary film by RICCARDO BIADENE
29/6/2017 9pm
CINEMA FARNESE PERSOL
Campo de’ Fiori 56, Rome
The filmmaker will be present at the screening
Giorgio Milanetti Univ. Sapienza
Adriàn Navigante FIND
Emanuele Trevi writer
Tickets
full price – 5 euro
reduced price – 4 euro
Other planned screenings
15 june 7.30pm
Cinema Jolly • Bologna
19 june 3.30pm
Cinema Lumiére • Bologna
22 june 6pm
Teatro Alighieri • Ravenna
30 june 9.30pm
Porta Portello • Padova
Soleluna Festival
8 july 10.30pm
Chiesa dello Spasimo • Palermo
A production by
Fondazione FIND
KAMA Productions
The extraordinary life of the man who brought India to the West.
An adventurous musical journey starting from Brittany, passing through India (Shantiniketan, Varanasi, Khajuraho, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Pondicherry), Berlin, Venice and Rome, following the story of the French-born Alain Daniélou, Indologist and musicologist who mainly lived in India between the 30’s and the 60’s. In Banaras (now Varanasi) Daniélou and his life partner, the Swiss photographer Raymond Burnier made the Rewa palace on the banks of the Ganga their home for 15 years. Here Daniélou became a Sanskrit scholar, converted to Hinduism, studied Indian classical music, learned to play the veena professionally and wrote books about Veda, Hindu philosophy and Shivaism.
Since 1950 Daniélou was the curator of the first world classical music collection for UNESCO. From the 60s, he returned to Europe, created the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies, first in Berlin and then in Venice. Alain Daniélou spent his last years between Rome, Lausanne, Berlin and Paris, his preference being for a large house hidden among the vineyards of the hills of Zagarolo, close to Rome.
Indian Music, Dance, Religion, Tradition vs Modernity, Sculpture and Philosophy are explored in this documentary through the eyes and words of Daniélou himself, and also with much reference to his autobiographic work, “The Way to the Labyrinth”.
78′ DCP | Switzerland / Italy 2017 | v.o. Italian, English, French, German (sub Ita)