Cycle into Cinema and History in 2025!
Cinema & Storia, the free training and refresher course for secondary school teachers, returns in 2025. Promoted by the Pirelli Foundation and the Fondazione ISEC, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, the subject of this 13th edition is Italy by Bicycle: Industrial Modernity, Political and Social Conflicts, and Artistic Visions.
More than two centuries after its first, clunky predecessors, the bicycle has lost none of its timeless appeal and remains a symbol of both cutting-edge technology and nostalgic childhood memories, of personal adventures and historic turning points.
This year, Cinema & Storia will be exploring the many facets of one of modernity’s most emblematic objects: from the industrial processes that made it a mass-consumer product to the key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when it played a role in shaping political change; from the hard-fought battle of women to mount their bikes to the everyday lives of working-class people for whom the bicycle has long been both a means of transport and a tool of the trade.
And beyond that: for decades, the bicycle has brought with it a rich symbolic and artistic universe, closely linked to the most vivid elements of our collective imagination.
The course consists of six online sessions and an in-person visit to the Pirelli Foundation. Five history lectures will be complemented by a session at the Cineteca di Bologna, which will select and feature a series of films.
Sessions are scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the following dates:
Monday 17 February – 1st online session
Monday 24 February – 2nd online session
Wednesday 5 March – 3rd online session
Monday 10 March – 4th online session
Monday 17 March – 5th online session
Monday 24 March – In-person visit to the Pirelli Foundation
Wednesday 26 March – 6rd online session
Registration is free but mandatory and opens on 13 January. Please write to didattica2@fondazioneisec.it. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
All online sessions will be streamed live via Microsoft Teams.
Click here to explore the full programme.
See you on 17 February at 4 p.m.!
Cinema & Storia, the free training and refresher course for secondary school teachers, returns in 2025. Promoted by the Pirelli Foundation and the Fondazione ISEC, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, the subject of this 13th edition is Italy by Bicycle: Industrial Modernity, Political and Social Conflicts, and Artistic Visions.
More than two centuries after its first, clunky predecessors, the bicycle has lost none of its timeless appeal and remains a symbol of both cutting-edge technology and nostalgic childhood memories, of personal adventures and historic turning points.
This year, Cinema & Storia will be exploring the many facets of one of modernity’s most emblematic objects: from the industrial processes that made it a mass-consumer product to the key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when it played a role in shaping political change; from the hard-fought battle of women to mount their bikes to the everyday lives of working-class people for whom the bicycle has long been both a means of transport and a tool of the trade.
And beyond that: for decades, the bicycle has brought with it a rich symbolic and artistic universe, closely linked to the most vivid elements of our collective imagination.
The course consists of six online sessions and an in-person visit to the Pirelli Foundation. Five history lectures will be complemented by a session at the Cineteca di Bologna, which will select and feature a series of films.
Sessions are scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the following dates:
Monday 17 February – 1st online session
Monday 24 February – 2nd online session
Wednesday 5 March – 3rd online session
Monday 10 March – 4th online session
Monday 17 March – 5th online session
Monday 24 March – In-person visit to the Pirelli Foundation
Wednesday 26 March – 6rd online session
Registration is free but mandatory and opens on 13 January. Please write to didattica2@fondazioneisec.it. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
All online sessions will be streamed live via Microsoft Teams.
Click here to explore the full programme.
See you on 17 February at 4 p.m.!