“The Man without Gravity” suspends Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation for 105 minutes, opting for a fabled reality, one in which a force does not attract the body towards the centre of the Earth. Marco Bonfanti’s film is not about Physics or the Laws that bind us to the physical reality of the natural world, but a contemplation of how these very Laws affect our state of mind.
TORONTO – C’è un ingegnere italiano abbastanza sconosciuto che è stato il soggetto del film biografico Netflix recentemente prodotto, intitolato “Rose Island”. Il regista italiano Sydney Sibilia ha spiegato di essersi imbattuto nei risultati dell’Ingegnere dopo aver visto una foto su Wikipedia della famigerata piattaforma Rose Island…
There is a relatively unknown Italian Engineer who was the subject of the recently produced Netflix biopic, titled “Rose Island”. Italian director Sydney Sibilia explained that he stumbled upon the Engineer’s accomplishments after seeing a Wikipedia photo of the infamous Rose Island Platform (in the pic above). Giorgio Rosa was a maverick Engineer in the 1960s who designed a telescopic pillar system – which he patented – and preassembled on a beach before floating it 12 kilometers off the coast of Rimini, Italy. Simply put, he created his own island.
VANCOUVER – June is Italian Heritage Month and there are many initiatives planned in the various “tricolor” communities scattered throughout Canada, organized with the aim of celebrating Italianness. One of these is the event promoted by the Dante Alighieri Society of British Columbia, based in Vancouver. →
VANCOUVER – Giugno è il mese del Patrimonio Italiano e sono tantissime le iniziative in programma nelle varie comunità tricolori sparse in tutto il Canada, organizzate allo scopo di celebrare l’italianità. Una di queste è la giornata promossa dalla Società Dante Alighieri della British Columbia, con sede a Vancouver…
