RARO Book

11/16/2020

11/16/2020

https://www.facebook.com/Raro-Visions-105106138088188

A guerilla style inclusive platform.
A worldwide selections of short films curated by RAROVIDEO
Our goal is to bypass the hegemony of the festival circuit and to give visibility to new innovative directors .

06/24/2020

Coming soon:
“THE FINEST EUROPEAN
FILM BOUTIQUE” THE NEW YORK TIMES
2020: 20 ANNI DI RAROVIDEO
Per celebrare questo anniversario stiamo producendo un esclusivo libro “Art Edition” in tiratura limitata .
Una memoria visiva e filologica della storia
e filosofia interdisciplinare di RaroVideo.
Dal classico cinema italiano al world cinema,
al cinema sperimentale / d’avanguardia, cult, horror, video arte e animazione, questo libro evidenzierà il meglio di tutta la diversità dei generi che abbiamo pubblicato nel corso degli anni.
Questa edizione includerà le copertine originali delle nostre pubblicazioni create con immagini estrapolate dalle pellicole dei film, una esclusiva raccolta di fotografie, recensioni, interviste e saggi.
Le caratteristiche del libro sono le seguenti:
• Formato: 17x24 cm
• Pagine: 320 in carta patinata opaca da 170 gr.
• Stampa interni: 244 pagine a 4+4 colori e 76 pagine stampate in bianco e nero,
• Copertina: cartonata da 2,5 mm rivestita in carta patinata opaca da 150 gr, stampata a colori, con stampa serigrafica;
• Risguardi: stampati a un colore in carta usomano;
• Immagini: circa 200, a colori e in bianco e nero;
• Testi; circa 80 cartelle, in italiano con traduzione in lingua inglese.
Coming soon:
"THE FINEST EUROPEAN
FILM BOUTIQUE "THE NEW YORK TIMES
2020: 20 YEARS OF RAROVIDEO
To celebrate this anniversary we are producing an exclusive limited edition "Art Edition" book.
A visual and philological memory of RARO’s history and interdisciplinary philosophy .
From classic Italian cinema to world cinema, experimental / avant-garde cinema, cult, horror, video art and animation. This book will highlight the best of our genre diversity approach we have been publishing over the years.
This edition will include the original covers of our publications created with images extrapolated from the origina films pints, an exclusive collection of photographs, reviews, interviews and essays.
The characteristics of the book are the following:
• Format: 17x24 cm
• Pages: 320 in 170 g matt coated paper.
• Internal printing: 244 pages in 4 + 4 colors and 76 pages printed in black and white,
• Cover: 2,5 mm cardboard with 150 g matte coated paper, printed in color, with silk-screen printing;
• Endpapers: printed in one color on plain paper;
• Images: around 200, in color and black and white;
• Texts; about 80 folders, in Italian with English translation.

07/20/2018

The Conformist (Italian: Il conformista) is a 1970 political drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the 1951 novel The Conformist by Alberto Moravia. The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli, and features Gastone Moschin, Enz...

11/17/2017

RARO book is an off-shoot of RAROVIDEO transferring and migrating our decennial cinematic knowledge and experience to a new form.

11/13/2017

https://www.facebook.com/thinkingsynergy/

11/10/2017

Forthcoming publications:
THE TRANSCENDENT IMAGE:
SIGNS FROM ITALIAN CINEMA
RB 002
The Concept
“Quale”: a quality abstracted as an independent essence
from a thing or image. - Roland Barthe’s Punctum.
The illumination of meaning found in a single FILM STILL revealed
through insights offered by distinguished practitioners
from the realms of art, fashion, design, architecture, literature, philosophy,
politics,

10/26/2017

TRANSCENDENT IMAGE: Signs From Classic Italian Cinema.
© 2017 all rights reserved Stefano Curti,Thomas Rose.
La Terra Trema ("The Earth Trembles")1948 directed by Luchino Visconti.
Book Concept & Themes
The symbolic, interpretive speculation of meaning in the images with reasoned understanding of historically relevant sign systems recognizable in fashion, design, architecture, sexuality, religion, gender, all aspects of human experience.

10/26/2017

"MODEST FASHION & the concept of Beauty"
(RB 003)
© 2017 all rights reserved Stefano Curti,Krishna Agazzi.
Book excerpt
Reflections: All of this is contextualized in an era of
universalism which certainly implies levels of communication,
circulation and esthetic values which were never reached in the past,
but also, contemporaneously, strong pressures towards cultural
standardization (very evident, for example, in the diffusion of
consumer goods). In this reality, differences also emerge with a
particular force: because of these same demographic dynamics, and
because conceiving of one’s own identity implies ever more facing this
complexity and these contradictions, while we are presented with a
complex, but not renounceable task, that is, to intertwine all the
various differences patiently, without ignoring them or eliminating
them. Hence this is not a time of possible cultural wars and civilizations conflicts , as is often reported/interpreted/proposed by the media, but a time of possible new universal encounters, cultural exchanges empathy and collaboration.

10/25/2017

120 DAYS OF S***M by Pier Paolo Pasolini
This absolute significant masterpiece will be featured in TRANSCENDENT IMAGE: Signs from Classic Italian Cinema.
© 2017 all rights reserved Stefano Curti,Thomas Rose.
A book of images: We are all seduced by the power of images, images from films, advertising, fashion, art and architecture, etc. Images are about seduction into a world of dream and fantasy, often taking us far from reality and the humdrum of everyday experience. Consider the motion picture, sequential images making up a story that can leave us breathless, empathetic or arouse us to anger and action. However; as the film is a compendium of still images what are the qualities embedded in the single image, can they be decoded and “read” in their own right— examined for meaning outside the film narrative? Some of the most powerful photographs ever made are hiding in the films structure. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TAKING THESE IMAGES AND OFFERING THEM TO ARTISTS, HISTORIANS, DESIGNERS TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES? WHAT NEW OR UNUSUAL INSIGHTS MIGHT BE REVEALED?

10/25/2017

Forthcoming publications:
TRANSCENDENT IMAGE: SIGNS FROM CLASSIC ITALIAN CINEMA
© 2017 all rights reserved Stefano Curti,Thomas Rose.

The Concept:

• Major Art Edition Book — large folio— image based
• SEDUCTION, MYSTERY, AND THE POWER OF THE IMAGE— over 150 images from 58 of the best of Classic Italian Cinema examined, deconstructed, decoded and— reimagined
• BEAUTY, and the illumination of meaning in a single FILM STILL as revealed through insights offered by comment from the realms of art, fashion, design, architecture, literature, philosophy, politics, sexuality religion, gender — all aspects of human experience.

The Theme:
• Meaning imbedded in a single frame—
• What can be discovered by close examination of scale, architecture, clothing etc. all those aspects we are not generally aware of—
• Examination outside the films central narrative—

The Structure:
• 150 image selected from 58 films
• Organized chronologically 30’s,40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s
• Essays an introduction and a foreword that frame the idea and define their goal
• Narrative or discursive selections accompanying the particular images as written by participating artist, designer, architect, etc.

10/25/2017

Forthcoming publications:
"MODEST FASHION & the concept of Beauty"
© 2017 all rights reserved Stefano Curti,Krishna Agazzi.

Premise:
The girl in Jakarta is connecting with the girl in New York every day, as part
of a bubbling global fashion dialogue," CNN

Concept:
The modest Muslim fashion, by virtue of its
geographic/cultural/ethical/religious origins, and the incomparable
instinct of the female collectivity for what is brewing in the future,
is in constant contact with both the Muslim historical tradition. and
with future things to come.
The concept of “fashion” can be understood in a wide sense –
considering the arts, but also religions, philosophies, etc. – but
clothes are its first material substratum, to which meaning and
propriety are added. Fashion is a language (linguistic phenomenon) or
better, a non-verbal language, a way of communicating through which
one constructs and manifests one’s own identity; fashion is also a
cultural phenomenon which has to do with matters of gender, sexuality
and relations of power and propriety.
From the point of view of semiological and semiotic studies, fashion
is considered a system productive of meaning, that constructs and
unfolds (discloses) itself in constructing meanings. Hence these
disciplines study clothing as a non-verbal language.