The Citizen’s Lab, in collaboration with the BFFB, continues its journey of comparisons and hybridizations between languages and practices. Cinema, in particular its places (and the meetings and conversations that this space can host), are a laboratory of active citizenship.
This year’s Lab proposes, for the first time in Italy, a pilot section ‘Poetic Justice’ within the BFFB, curated by Prof. Emanuela Fronza (University of Bologna) in collaboration with the research area “Law, Economics and Institutions” of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bolzano and with the Euregio platform on human dignity and human rights (EUPHUR)
The “Poetic Justice” section will explore the complex and fascinating relationship between cinema and justice. This initiative is based on the belief that cinema and images are not only tools for representing law and justice, but also powerful vehicles for spreading legal culture in society.
Through visual language, cinema offers a suggestive and effective access to the many faces of law and justice, allowing us to identify its actors - judges, defendants, lawyers, victims, witnesses, law enforcement - and to grasp the power dynamics at play. At the same time, cinema invites us to reflect on the existence and violation of rights, including new generation rights, and on the mechanisms of protection and access to justice, such as class action. The relationship between cinema and justice takes on an even more crucial role in the era of the spectacularization and mediatization of law, in which the collective imagination is often shaped more by its cinematic representation than by actual practice.
“Poetic Justice” proposes, through an interdisciplinary and international approach, meetings and screenings that involve exponents of law, philosophy, politics and art. The aim is to enhance cinema not only as a narrative tool, but also as a public space and a democratic place of debate for the community.