Il prossimo 25 settembre alle ore 15.00 prende il via la conferenza dedicata al tema Gender in occasione del Bari International Film Festival,rassegna che esamina, ricerca, studia,capolavori della storia del cinema in rapporto a genere, identità e orientamento sessuale. Location di questo evento lo storico Palazzo delle Poste di Bari in Piazza Cesare Battisti, 1. Il palazzo è sede dell’Università degli Studi ed è un meraviglioso esempio dell’architettura razionalista fascista, Luciano Lapadula – storico della moda e scrittore – analizzerà il tema “Stili – Generi – Travestimenti“. Lo studio dei segni legati alla moda, al trucco, alle acconciature che a partire dal 1968 hanno diviso e mescolato generi e simbologia sessuale, da Twiggy a Bowie, da Coccinelle ad Amanda Lear. L’intervento di Luciano Lapadula è tratto dal suo libro “Il Macabro e il Grottesco nella Moda e nel Costume“, acquistabile al link: https://www.progedit.com/libro-589.html
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On September 25th at 3.00 pm, the Gender conference will start afor Bari International Film Festival, a review that examines, researches, studies, masterpieces of the history of cinema in relation to gender, identity and sexual orientation. Inside the historic Palazzo delle Poste in Bari (Cesare Battisti Sq, 1), a marvelous example of the fascist rationalist art, Luciano Lapadula – fashion historian and writer – will analyze the theme “Styles – Genres – Disguises”. The study of signs related to fashion, makeup, hairstyles that since 1968 has divided and mixed genres and sexual symbology, from Twiggy to Bowie, from Coccinelle to Amanda Lear. Luciano Lapadula’s speech is based on his book “The Macabre and the Grotesque in Fashion and Costume“, available at the following link: https://www.progedit.com/libro-589.html
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Esibizionismo, feticismo, padronanza nelle strategie dell’apparire.
Insieme alla nascita della fotografia si sviluppa il culto dell’immagine e di alcune parti del corpo sino ad allora mai esibite in pubblico.
La donna nella foto fu la prima in Italia a godere di un piacere edonistico, fermando le lancette del tempo grazie a una serie di scatti avveniristici ed erotici.
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Exhibitionism, Fetishism, Appearance Strategies. Along with the birth of photography, the cult of the image develops and then some parts of the body for the first time are exhibited in public. The woman in the picture was the first in Italy to enjoy a hedonistic pleasure, stopping the hands of time with a series of futuristic and erotic shots.
I describe her incredible story in my book “Macabre and Grotesque in Fashion and Costume“. Edt. Progedit The volume is available here:
Misterioso e schivo E.J. Bellocq nel 1910 iniziò la propria carriera di fotografo in America, dilettandosi nella realizzazione di immagini a fine commerciale. Svolse la propria attività a New Orleans dove, nel quartiere a luci rosse di Storyville realizzò centinaia di fotografie immortalando prostitute colte in pose sensuali, intime, drammatiche. Il quartiere venne distrutto nel 1917, e furono perduti anche moltissimi scatti di Bellocq, che morì in solitudine nel 1949. La gloria, postuma, lo vide trionfare solo a partire dal 1966, quando Lee Friedlander scoprì in un antiquario a New Orleans suoi numerosi inediti scatti, che divennero presto oggetto di importanti mostre e pubblicazioni, tra cui Storyville Portraits (1970) e Red Light District of New Orleans (1996). Guardando queste immagini non è l’erotismo a prevalere, ma un senso di sconfinata solitudine, tanto lontana nel tempo quanto attuale. Viene voglia di chiedere a quelle donne i loro nomi, come siano finite lì. Vorremmo conoscere le loro storie. Vivono in un bordello arredato per illudere ci sia eleganza, risplende più evidente la fatiscenza. Sulle pareti lacere carte damascate. Compare il poster che sembra ritrarre la famosa attrice Lily Elsie, forse icona di una tra le ragazze costrette a una vita assai diversa. Un occhio tumefatto, un seno sfiorito, un ventre gonfio senza maternità, un sorriso che nasconde l’abbandono. Lola, Edy, Sarah, non hanno nulla da perdere, e si concedono, indolenti e inconsapevoli, alla gloria eterna grazie a queste fotografie.
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Mysterious and bashful E.J. Bellocq in 1910 began his career as a photographer in America, delighting in the creation of images for commercial purposes. He carried out his business in New Orleans where, in the red light district of Storyville, he took hundreds of photographs immortalizing prostitutes caught in sensual, intimate, dramatic poses. The neighborhood was destroyed in 1917, and many shots of Bellocq, who died in solitude in 1949, were also lost. Glory, posthumously, saw him triumph only starting in 1966, when Lee Friedlander discovered his numerous unpublished works in an antiquarian in New Orleans shots, which soon became the subject of important exhibitions and publications, including Storyville Portraits (1970) and Red Light District of New Orleans (1996). Looking at these images it is not eroticism that prevails, but a sense of boundless solitude, as far away in time as it is current. I feel like asking those women for their names, how they ended up there. We would like to know their stories. They live in a brothel furnished to deceive there is elegance, the dilapidation shines more clearly. Damask cards on the tattered walls. The poster appears that seems to portray the famous actress Lily Elsie, perhaps an icon of one of the girls forced to live a very different life. A swollen eye, a faded breast, a swollen belly without motherhood, a smile that hides abandonment. Lola, Edy, Sarah, have nothing to lose, and indulge themselves and unwittingly, to eternal glory thanks to these photographs.
A new work day begins, the same as the previous and the following. I still have knickers and a nightgown, there is time to not think about the first client, time to hold Billy and smile with him at the photographer.It is morning in the house, from the window the light illuminates the room. On the walls, portraits of prostitutes, in the center, with her beautiful striped stockings, she is ready to start the shift, she drinks, so as not to weigh too much on it.It’s morning. Flowers for a faded lifeA casual smile for a new day equal to the previous one
Gibson Hairstyle. It is daytime and the short, chubby girl is waiting for her customers
On the tattered wallpaper, the portrait of the actress Lily Elsie hangs. Life has given her a different destinyBathed in light. A smile resigned to the girl at the window behind into the darkness, the promise for the meetingAfternoon A Venus of abandonmentThe girl’s big eyes tell us about her atrocious fate, listen to herStrike a pose. The photos on the wall describe excerpts from an interrupted lifeHeavy upholstery covers sounds and lightsAn angry trait erases identityUnconventional late afternoon. It seems that the girl is drawing a butterfly on the wall, a symbol of short and free lifeThe girl with the erased face waits for customers lying in her négligéeWhat books will they ever be? And how strange that frame without picture. Maybe it’s a mirror.A fast, furious trait erases the faces and identities of a “shameful” lifeFragments that crumble like the girl’s life
Waiting for a client, she wears a black silk mask
She wear the same mask as the previous photo wich hidden her face, she exhibits a tired body, a swollen belly without his childA bed that knows no loveIt’s night, Penny is my whole lifeImmersed in her failuresImmersed in her failures
A tight jumpsuit, a tights that makes a nude look effect. The face is tired.
On the walls Victorian photos of relatives, in the hands of a rose, the gift of a client?The day is over, maybe a last customer will come, so in the meantime let’s get distracted, play cards and drink, one, two, three bottles, not to think about it anymoreThe last client has arrived. He was more drunk than I was. He pushed me to the bed, hit me hard, calling me a whore.
L’imperatrice Teodora, Madame Du Barry, Mata Hary, Marilyn Monroe, Moana Pozzi.
Cosa hanno in comune tra loro queste donne? Non la bellezza, ma fascino e mistero che avvolgono la loro persona in un’ aurea mitica e splendente. Sono donne che hanno segnato in modo permanente le differenti epoche storiche in cui hanno vissuto, anche o soprattutto attraverso la propria gestualità, i propri gusti vestimentari e la propria vita sessuale.
Il caso di Moana, bionda star del porno, notata anche da Federico Fellini che la scelse per un ruolo nel film “Ginger e Fred”, solca in modo evidente e nuovo la superficie del classico perbenismo dell’Italia degli anni ’80. Dopo i concorsi di bellezza e qualche provino andato male, Moana scelse la carriera nel filone della cinematografia Hard, divenendone la stella più nota nel panorama internazionale, mai raggiunta sin ora e credo mai possa esserlo in futuro.
La singolarità del caso Moana risiede tuttavia non nella sua fulgida carriera di attrice quanto nell’ascesa a star della cultura Pop. Come per coloro che la precedettero, ma differentemente per esplicitazione della propria identità lavorativa, lei fece dell’arte di amare una virtù, impiegandola in ambiti assai vari: dalle pellicole porno alla politica. Oltre ad aver lavorato al “Partito dell’Amore”, infatti Moana come Mata sedusse i più importanti e satrapi uomini politici del suo tempo carpendo loro considerevoli segreti.
Divenne così sempre più nota al pubblico di ogni genere ed età, e nelle notti degli anni ’90 era spesso ospite del “Costanzo Show” per raccontare maliarda alcuni aspetti della propria vita a morbosi spettatori e fan. Una star del pop dunque, amata dalle donne quanto dagli uomini, le une perché forse rivedevano in lei quella parte del Sé colma di eros e di proibito, gli altri perché Moana come Marilyn, incarnava il più sublime desiderio carnale.
Il mondo della moda si accorse del fenomeno, l’attrice era una macchina esplosiva che catturava l’attenzione mediatica, così nei primi anni ’90 la bionda atomica sfilò in passerella per stilisti come Fendi, Chiara Boni, e Karl Lagerfeld il quale affermò: “le donne si muovono come Moana, mica come una top model”.
Moana Pozzi modeling Chiara Boni in early 90s
Triste l’epilogo di questa strana favola, la precoce scomparsa della Diva ha cancellato per sempre l’aspetto volgare e terreno della sua esistenza consacrandolo a figura mitica. Moana come una moderna icona ha generato tendenze e creato look, e tutt’ora – unico esempio nella storia – la sua vita è presentata quasi come quella di una santa, rapita dalla morte mentre fluttuava in uno stato di grazia.
La bella Moana
Continua la nostra bella a far parlare di sé, come per le grandi star di fama mondiale, c’è chi giura sia ancora viva e abbia scelto di cambiare vita, ancora una volta. C’è poi chi la vuole uccisa a causa dello spionaggio, e chi semplicemente come noi la ricorda sensuale, prorompentemente fasciata in un luccicante vestito rosso, mentre sorride alla camera e spostando la sua bella acconciatura in stile retrò ci dice “Vivi Come Se Dovessi Morire Domani e Pensa Come Se Non Dovessi Morire Mai“.
Theodora Empress , Madame Du Barry, Mata Hary, Marilyn Monroe, Moana Pozzi.
What do these women have in common? Not the beauty, but charm and mystery that envelop their person in a golden and shining aura. They are women who have permanently marked the different historical periods in which they lived, even or especially through their gestures, their vestiges tastes and their sexual life.
The case of Moana, blonde porn star, also noticed by Federico Fellini who chose her for a role in the film “Ginger and Fred”, plots the surface of the classic respectability of Italy in the 80s in an evident and new way. After the beauty contests and some unsuccessful auditions, Moana chose a career in the film industry of Hard, becoming the star best known in the international scene, never reached so far and I never can be in the future.
The uniqueness of the Moana case lies, however, not in her brilliant career as an actress as in the rise to star of Pop culture. As for those who preceded her, but differently by explication of her own work identity, she made the art of loving a virtue, using it in very different fields: from porn films to politics. In addition to having worked at the “Party of Love”, Moana as Mata seduced the most important and satrafic politicians of her time, taking considerable secrets from them.
It became more and more known to the public of all kinds and ages, and in the nights of the 90s it was often a guest of the “Costanzo Show” to tell a few wistful aspects of their lives to morbid spectators and fans. A pop star, therefore, loved by women as much as by men, because perhaps they saw in her that part of the Self filled with eros and forbidden, the others because Moana as Marilyn, embodied the most sublime carnal desire.
The fashion system noticed the Moana phenomenon, an explosive machine that captures media attention, so in the early 90s the atomic blonde parades on the catwalk for designers like Fendi, Chiara Boni, and Karl Lagerfeld who said: “women they move like Moana, not like a supermodel “.
Sad the epilogue of this strange tale, the early disappearance of the Diva has forever erased the vulgar and earthly aspect of its existence consecrating it to a mythical figure. Moana as a modern icon has generated trends and created look, and still – the only example in history – her life is presented almost like that of a saint, kidnapped by death while floating in a state of grace.
Our beauty continues to be talked about, as for the world famous big stars, there are those who swear are still alive and have chosen to change their lives, once again. Then there are those who want to kill her because of espionage, and who just as we remember her sensual, proromently bandaged in a shimmery red dress, while smiling at the camera and moving his beautiful hairstyle in retro style tells us “Live Like If Should I Dying Tomorrow and Thinking As If I Should Never Die “.
