Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (14)

Berlinale 75: A posteriori (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2025). Berlinale 75: A posteriori

The first half of a long-form report I wrote after attending the 75° of the Berlinale. I discuss the ongoing currency of some of the representational strategies I had identified in 2024, and offer critical remarks on a few notable films in the progra... Read More about Berlinale 75: A posteriori.

Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2025). Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche

In the second half of my long-form report from the 2025 edition of the Berlinale, I discuss the merits and limitations of a maximalist tendency displayed by several films included in the programme. I then contrast these titles with others that rely m... Read More about Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche.

DOK Leipzig 2024: Il punto di equilibrio (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2024). DOK Leipzig 2024: Il punto di equilibrio

A long-form review on the 2024 edition of the Leipzig festival of animation and documentary cinema.

Review: International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2024 (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2024). Review: International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2024

A review of the 2024 International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, an event whose programme offered a prime opportunity for reflection upon the "eccentric trajectories and intersections" that traditionally define independent anima... Read More about Review: International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2024.

Berlinale 74: Arginare la deriva (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2024). Berlinale 74: Arginare la deriva

In this companion piece to 'Strategie del desiderio', I introduce the concept of 'stratographic cinema' in relation to a number of aesthetic and narrative strategies developed by contemporary filmmakers to embrace multiple--often contrasting--tempora... Read More about Berlinale 74: Arginare la deriva.

L'eco di una trascendenza (2017)
Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. (2017). L'eco di una trascendenza. In D. Persico, & A. Stellino (Eds.), To The Wonder. Gli ultimi visionari (23-28). AgenziaX

A critical analysis of Terrence Malick's position and work within the canon of American cinema, the chapter offers an alternative take to the established Heideggerian reading, drawing attention to Malick's engagement with American mythologies through... Read More about L'eco di una trascendenza.

Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative (2017)
Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. M. (2017). Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative. In J. Ward, & C. Miller (Eds.), Urban noir : New York and Los Angeles in shadow and light (53-70). Rowman & Littlefield

Set in the late 1990s, against the backdrop of the Rampart scandal that impacted the LAPD, Oren Moverman's Rampart centres on a rogue, corrupt cop, Dave Brown, whose unwillingness to let go of the ‘old ways’ turns him into a perfect scapegoat for a d... Read More about Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative.

Right Now, Wrong Then di Hong Sang-soo (2015)
Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. (2015). Right Now, Wrong Then di Hong Sang-soo. In D. Persico, & A. Stellino (Eds.), Cinema Is Not Dead. We Are (173-179). AgenziaX

A critical analysis of the speculative fiction elements in Hong Sang-soo's cinema, focussing on his 2015 film Right Now, Wrong Then.

'I ain't going anywhere'. The House, the Mobile Hero and the Frontier in Winter's Bone (2013)
Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. (2013). 'I ain't going anywhere'. The House, the Mobile Hero and the Frontier in Winter's Bone. In R. Hamilton, A. Macleod, & J. Munro (Eds.), Spaces of (Dis)location (73-89). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

There's no place like home, said a jaunty Judy Garland at the end of the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. In the decade initiated by the 9/11 attacks and closed by the housing market crash of 2008, American imagination seemed to find it harder than exp... Read More about 'I ain't going anywhere'. The House, the Mobile Hero and the Frontier in Winter's Bone.